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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"

The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
The Astral Library
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
Heartwood
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
Operation Bounce House
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
In the Great Quiet
The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)
A Welcome Reunion
Twenty Years Later
The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
Gray After Dark
Those Empty Eyes
Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)
The Lost Metal (Mistborn, #7)
Dawn of the North (The Ashen, #3)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
Darksight Dare (Penric and Desdemona, #16)
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Don't Be In Love
The Amalfi Curse
Isles of the Emberdark
The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)
West with Giraffes
The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)
The Lincoln Highway
Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)
Water Moon
The Sunlit Man (Cosmere)
Nettle & Bone
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)
Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #2)
Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)
Glorious Rivals (The Grandest Game, #2)
Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection
Cold Zero
Something Wilder
Call of the Camino
Swept Away
The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
The Book of Doors
The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects, #2)
Rings of Fate (Curses and Crowns, #1)
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)
The Orphanage by the Lake
The Wrong Daughter
The King's Ransom (Recovery Agent #2)
ガチアクタ 1 [Gachiakuta 1]
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Catch the Sun
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)
Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast, #0.5)
So Far Gone
Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
Amethysts & Alchemy (Amethysts & Alchemy, #1)
The Stolen Queen
Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle, #5)
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)
What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
The Club
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Trust No One
The Society of Unknowable Objects
The Primal Hunter 3 (The Primal Hunter, #3)
Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)
In the Lives of Puppets
Extinction (Cash & Colcord, #1)
Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Don’t Forget to Write

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“ To die will be an awfully big adventure. ”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
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