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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Excellent Space Opera

1,016 books — 3,638 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Most Interesting World

8,086 books — 4,735 voters

Alien Species Intervention by J.K. Accinni

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797 books — 778 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Action-Adventure Novels

2,521 books — 2,707 voters

Best Survival Stories

1,153 books — 1,607 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Foreign Lands

2,348 books — 2,192 voters

Adventure Books

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer'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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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! ...more ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“ The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul. ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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