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

The Responsible Party
The Magic Library of Waterfall Way
Homeward for a Spell
A Lady's Guide to Love and Pirates
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
You Had Me at Bigfoot (Daphne Drew, #1)
Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World
The Revenant of Surolifia
ONE PIECE 115
Buried Feelings
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphix, #14)
Finish Lines: A Graphic Novel
Kingdom Unraveled: A Closely Knit Graphic Adventure
Raven Saga, Vol. 2: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
The Last to Drown
The Pirate Queen
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Shadow Friends (The Martini Club, #3)
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Astral Library
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
Heartwood
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Blood of Truth and Traitors (The Hirathean Path, #3)
Twenty Years Later
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
13,091 books — 9,412 voters
Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandIncident at the Ranch Retreat by Linda A. MortonBetrayal at the Opera by Linda A. MortonHigh Desert Grave Robber by Linda A. MortonTwenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Top Fast-Paced Mystery
983 books — 1,054 voters

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger11/22/63 by Stephen  KingOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsReplay by Ken Grimwood
The Best Time Travel Books of All Time
900 books — 1,888 voters
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
Best Action-Adventure Novels
2,864 books — 3,365 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
2,380 books — 2,247 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
1,018 books — 1,390 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)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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)

Augustine of Hippo
“ To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. ”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

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

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