Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Adventure"

Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)

A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)

The Shadow Friends (The Martini Club, #3)

The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)

Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)

He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)

The Orphanage by the Lake (The Orphanage by the Lake, #1)

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl Graphic Novel, #1)

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)

Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)

He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)

He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)

The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)

He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)

The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #2)

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam (Six of Crows, #2.5)

He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)

Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)

The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)

He Who Fights with Monsters 12 (He Who Fights with Monsters #12)

Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #10)

The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects, #2)

Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)

Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)

The Primal Hunter 2 (The Primal Hunter, #2)

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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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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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