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 Last Best Quest Ever
Chase the Light (National Parks Summers)
Song of the Yellow Dragon
Bad Badger: A Family Story
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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)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Astral Library
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
The Sky Beneath Her
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Heartwood
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
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Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
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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
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All-Time Awesome Books
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Path of Lies and Riddles by J.N.M.  VerboekendCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Books That Have Made An Impression
4,139 books — 2,431 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)

G.K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. Chesterton

Jack Kerouac
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ...more
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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