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 Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

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)

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

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

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

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

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

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Flameborne: Chosen (Emberquell Academy, #1)

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

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

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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

Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

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

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

The Grumpiest Billionaire (Small Town Sisterhood #2)

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

Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)

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

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

Unraveled (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9.5)

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

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

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

The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)

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

Faulty Bloodline (An AJ Docker Medical Thriller, #2)

Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

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

Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)

Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

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

Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

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

He Who Fights with Monsters: Book Twelve (He Who Fights with Monsters, #12)

Booked for Murder (An Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery, #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told t ...more ”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

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“ He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes. ...more ”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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