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"

Trust No One
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
White River Crossing
The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido
Saltswept (The Earthsalt Duology, #1)
Red Star Rebels
Matabar 2: A Progression Fantasy Epic
Fire Sword and Sea
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Raven Saga, Vol. 1
A Sea Monster Conundrum (The Misfits)
Unfairies: A Graphic Novel
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
Heartwood
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
The Polymorph
Isola
Operation Bounce House
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Gray After Dark
The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)
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Books That Have Made An Impression
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Dune by Frank HerbertOld Man's War by John ScalziLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyStarship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinPandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
Excellent Space Opera
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Top Fast-Paced Mystery
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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)
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)
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)

Patrick Rothfuss
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Todor Bombov
While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told t ...more
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