Adventure Books

Adventure

Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline. Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines, which dominated American popular fiction between the Progressive Era and the 1950s. Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J.R.R. Tolkien both combined the secondary wo ...more

New Releases Tagged "Adventure"

Galaphile (The First Druids of Shannara, #1)

To Steal from Thieves (Thieves & Kings #1)

Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 1

Max in the Land of Lies (Operation Kinderspion, #2)

A Wolf Called Fire (Voice of the Wilderness #4)

After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice

If You Find a Fawn: A What-to-Do for Wild Wanderers (Disney Planet Possible)

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The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2)

The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

Lists

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

Have Passport Will Travel

702 books — 586 voters

Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals by C. Toni Graham

Best Books for Teen Readers

1,159 books — 1,403 voters

Books About Video Games and Virtual Reality

440 books — 843 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Best Time Travel Books of All Time

792 books — 1,648 voters

What to read in summer?

3,836 books — 1,383 voters

The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Best Intro to Science Fiction for Young Readers

1,339 books — 1,549 voters

Adventure Books

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer鈥檚 Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

The Titan鈥檚 Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

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Quotes Tagged 鈥淎dventure鈥�

“ If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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“ One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it鈥檚 still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the river ...more ”
― Edward Abbey

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