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 Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
Not Our Daughter
Twenty Years Later
The Orphanage by the Lake
The King's Ransom
Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)
The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
The Picasso Heist
Don't Be In Love
Silver & Smoke (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #3)
Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo
Pictures of You
The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)
Eruption
Catch the Sun
The Second Son (Chase Burke #1)
An Inside Job
The Wrong Daughter
The Boomerang
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)
Denied Access (Mitch Rapp, #24)
The Oligarch's Daughter
Cry Havoc (Tom Reece #1)
The Recovery Agent (Gabriela Rose, #1)
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)
Fated to the Scarred Wolf (The Hunted Omegas, #5)
SPY×FAMILY 15
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold (Blonde Identity, #2)
The Blonde Identity (Blonde Identity, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
Absolute Batman (2024-) #1
チェンソーマン 12 [Chainsaw Man 12]
The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
Hart's Ridge (Hart's Ridge #1)
Absolute Superman, Vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton
No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)
Don’t Forget to Write
The Primal Hunter 3 (The Primal Hunter, #3)
The House of Cross (Alex Cross, #33)
Tom Clancy Executive Power (Jack Ryan #21)
He Who Fights with Monsters: Book Twelve (He Who Fights with Monsters, #12)
The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)
The Primal Hunter 2 (The Primal Hunter, #2)
Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)
Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)
SPY×FAMILY 14
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
The Swimmer
Edge of Honor: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series)
Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #10)
チェンソーマン 13 [Chainsaw Man 13]
Only the Dead (Terminal List #6)
Better Off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
チェンソーマン 14 [Chainsaw Man 14]
SPY×FAMILY 7
チェンソーマン 15 [Chainsaw Man 15]
The Primal Hunter 4 (The Primal Hunter, #4)
He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #11)
The Primal Hunter 5 (The Primal Hunter, #5)
Slough House (Slough House, #7)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
Mercy (Atlee Pine, #4)
Battle Mountain (Joe Pickett, #25)
呪術廻戦 28 [Jujutsu Kaisen 28]
The Primal Hunter 6 (The Primal Hunter #6)
Perfectly Wrong (Captive, #1,5)
The Primal Hunter 7 (The Primal Hunter #7)
The Primal Hunter 9 (The Primal Hunter #9)
チェンソーマン 16 [Chainsaw Man 16]
Lessons in Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
チェンソーマン 18 [Chainsaw Man 18]
呪術廻戦 26 [Jujutsu Kaisen 26]
The Pilot's Daughter
チェンソーマン 17 [Chainsaw Man 17]
呪術廻戦 27 [Jujutsu Kaisen 27]
チェンソーマン 19 [Chainsaw Man 19]
The Primal Hunter 8 (The Primal Hunter #8)
The Tourists (Mac Dekker, #2)
Assassins Anonymous (Assassins Anonymous #1)
呪術廻戦 25 [Jujutsu Kaisen 25]
Clive Cussler Untitled Oregon 19 (The Oregon Files #19)
Wrong Number. Right Don.  (Sinful Mafia Daddies, #3)
The First Death (Columbia River, #4)
呪術廻戦 24 [Jujutsu Kaisen 24]
呪術廻戦 23 [Jujutsu Kaisen 23]
The Lost Baker of Vienna
ラブ・バレット 1 (LOVE-BULLET #1)
The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)
Defiance of the Fall (Defiance of the Fall, #1)

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