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)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Excellent Space Opera
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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)

K.  Ritz
If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.
K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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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