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"

The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)

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

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

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

This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)

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

Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

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

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

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

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

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

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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

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

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

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

The Blonde Identity (Blonde Identity, #1)

A Curse of Ashes (The Eye of the Goddess #3)

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

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

What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold (Blonde Identity, #2)

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

Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)

Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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

Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)

Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)

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

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

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“ 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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