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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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

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Magic, Adventure, Romance

2,392 books — 5,163 voters

Adventure Books

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

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)

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)

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“ If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ...more ”
― Drew Barrymore

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“ One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the river ...more ”
― Edward Abbey

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