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
Rialto
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)
Dune by Frank Patrick HerbertLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyOn Destiny by Aileen ErinNot Till We Are Lost by Dennis E. TaylorLight Bringer by Pierce Brown
Space Opera
864 books — 1,124 voters
Soulless by Gail CarrigerThe Iron Duke by Meljean BrookClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareChangeless by Gail CarrigerBlameless by Gail Carriger
Steampunk/Romance
368 books — 928 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
All-Time Awesome Books
12,798 books — 8,644 voters
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayRebel Angels by Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing by Libba BrayThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Luxe by Anna Godbersen
Teen Historical Novels
993 books — 1,375 voters

Graceling by Kristin CashoreThrone of Glass by Sarah J. MaasPoison Study by Maria V. SnyderA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasFire by Kristin Cashore
Magic, Adventure, Romance
2,658 books — 5,429 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 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
This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.
K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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