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"

The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World

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Arrow of Fortune (Raiders of the Arcana, #3)

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The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Magic, Adventure, Romance

2,346 books — 5,142 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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3,912 books — 2,012 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Foreign Lands

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Murder on Family Grounds by Susan Rowland

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz

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Sizzling Summer Sensations

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Adventure Books

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. ”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

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“ This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbit ...more ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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