Most Read This Week In Action

The action genre is characterized by more emphasis on exciting action sequences than on character development or story-telling. That is not to say that the action-adventure story does not have memorable characters or circumstances, however. Generally heroes are seen as larger than life, and many times they are prime examples of the epic hero archetype.

Action can also be known as Action-Adventure depending on criteria met. This applies to all age groups, especially popular in Middle Grade adventure stories and adult fiction with spy or adventure leads.

Also see Adventure.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Action"

The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
In His Wake
Antihero (Orphan X, #11)
Cold Zero
Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast #0.5)
The Polymorph
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
Twenty Years Later
The King's Ransom (Recovery Agent #2)
Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo
The Orphanage by the Lake
The Picasso Heist
Not Our Daughter
Silver & Smoke (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #3)
Pictures of You
The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
First Sign of Danger (Haven's Rock, #4)
He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)
Catch the Sun
Fated to the Scarred Wolf (The Hunted Omegas, #5)
The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold (Blonde Identity, #2)
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)
Hart's Ridge (Hart's Ridge #1)
The Wrong Daughter
Denied Access (Mitch Rapp, #24)
Don't Be In Love
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)
Private Rome (Private, #18)
The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)
The House of Cross (Alex Cross, #33)
Eruption
The Oligarch's Daughter
The Blonde Identity (Blonde Identity, #1)
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)
Cry Havoc (Tom Reece #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
Don’t Forget to Write
The Recovery Agent (Recovery Agent, #1)
The Second Son (Chase Burke #1)
Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)
He Who Fights with Monsters: Book Twelve (He Who Fights with Monsters, #12)
He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
Absolute Superman, Vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton
呪術廻戦 29 [Jujutsu Kaisen 29]
Absolute Batman (2024-) #1
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
Inside Man (Head Cases, #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #10)
呪術廻戦 25 [Jujutsu Kaisen 25]
The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)
He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)
Tom Clancy Executive Power (Jack Ryan #21)
He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)
No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)
呪術廻戦 26 [Jujutsu Kaisen 26]
Burn the World Down
Waybound (Cradle, #12)
呪術廻戦 24 [Jujutsu Kaisen 24]
Mercy (Atlee Pine, #4)
チェンソーマン 12 [Chainsaw Man 12]
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me (Absolute Universe)
The Primal Hunter 2 (The Primal Hunter, #2)
The Primal Hunter 3 (The Primal Hunter, #3)
Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court, #1)
呪術廻戦 28 [Jujutsu Kaisen 28]
Better Off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
呪術廻戦 27 [Jujutsu Kaisen 27]
The Primal Hunter 5 (The Primal Hunter, #5)
SPY×FAMILY 15
Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age, #2)
Coeds and Cattails (Miss Fortune Mystery, #29)
The Primal Hunter 4 (The Primal Hunter, #4)
チェンソーマン 13 [Chainsaw Man 13]
Battle Mountain (Joe Pickett, #25)
In the Pines (Columbia River, #3; Mercy Kilpatrick, #7)
呪術廻戦 23 [Jujutsu Kaisen 23]
ラブ・バレット 1 (LOVE-BULLET #1)
Warning Signs
チェンソーマン 14 [Chainsaw Man 14]
The Swimmer
Edge of Honor (Scot Harvath #24)
Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)
チェンソーマン 15 [Chainsaw Man 15]
God's Junk Drawer
Catch Her Death (Bree Taggert, #7)
The Primal Hunter 6 (The Primal Hunter #6)
The Boomerang
Absolute Flash Vol. 1: Of Two Worlds
The Primal Hunter 7 (The Primal Hunter #7)
The Primal Hunter 9 (The Primal Hunter #9)
Lessons in Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
The Record Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #3)
On Her Watch (Bree Taggert, #8)
SPY×FAMILY 14
チェンソーマン 17 [Chainsaw Man 17]

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