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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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
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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
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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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)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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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