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

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Queenswood
The Guest Book
The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)
A Great and Powerful Tyranny
The Grapevine (The Lost Highway, #1)
Heaven's Graveyard
The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America
The Hyacinth Labyrinth
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
Scent of Hope (Call of the Wild #2)
Kamudo, Vol. 2
Dungeon Crawler Carl: Crocodile
Styx and Stones
Chase the Light (National Parks Summers)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
Vows of Blood and Deception (The Hirathean Path, #2)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Astral Library
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
Heartwood
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Sky Beneath Her
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
1,100 books — 1,229 voters
Gabriel's Fire by Lotchie BurtonSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzJoey and His Friend Water by Ellen J. LewinbergThe Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf by Lola GlassChasing Headlines by J. Rose Black
Sizzling Summer Sensations
3,536 books — 1,127 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Most Interesting World
8,247 books — 5,104 voters
The Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownAngels & Demons by Dan    BrownThe Lost Symbol by Dan    BrownTimeline by Michael CrichtonInferno by Dan    Brown
Treasure Hunter Thrillers
466 books — 924 voters

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
2,208 books — 1,970 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
Have Passport Will Travel
713 books — 607 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Treasure Island
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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)

K.  Ritz
The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.
K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

Alexandre Dumas
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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