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
Witchlight (The Witchlands, #5)
The Maid of Sherwood Forest (A McQuivey's Costume Shop Romance, #2)
Arrow of Fortune (Raiders of the Arcana, #3)
Of Swamp & Sea, Volume One (Of Swamp & Sea, #1)
ONE PIECE 113
SubZero Vol. 3 (SubZero, #3)
The Last Kids on Earth and the Destructor's Lair
The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, Vol. 6
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Never Lie
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
A Flicker in the Dark
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Heartwood
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
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
704 books — 587 voters
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
1,058 books — 1,150 voters

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Sizzling Summer Sensations
3,205 books — 970 voters
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Best Spy Novels
1,292 books — 2,254 voters

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Teen Historical Novels
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer'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)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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)

Herman Melville
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. ...more
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

J.R.R. Tolkien
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! ...more
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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