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

This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
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A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic: Or, Like Lightning in an Umbrella Storm
Forbidden Mountain (Guardians #1)
Adventure is Out There!
Nell O'Dell Hates Quests (The Golden Crossroads, #1)
Love Lethal, Death Divine
Aliens Like Us (Katherine "Kitty" Katt, #17)
Princess Academy: The Graphic Novel
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Anna-Jane and the Endless Summer
The Arcane Collar (The Auren Chronicles, #1)
Devious Prey
The Curse Breaker (Isle of Ever, #2)
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
The Astral Library
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
Heartwood
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
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Have Passport Will Travel
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Best Books for Teen Readers
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Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDeeper Than the Dead by Debra WebbListen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Top Fast-Paced Mystery
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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 Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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
It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? 
K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

Oprah Winfrey
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
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