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

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
Born of Gilded Mountains
Lady of Steel and Straw
Beneath a Crescent Shadow (The Balkan Legends, #1)
The King's Ransom (The Recovery Agent #2)
Ambush at Sorato (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, #7)
Barda
Roswell Johnson Saves the World!
Adventures of Mary Jane
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Five Days in Bogotá
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Stay Dead
Anzu and the Realm of Darkness
Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
James
Eruption
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Wrong Daughter
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Body in the Backyard (Riley Thorn, #4)
The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6)
The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)
Wonka
Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door (Riley Thorn, #1)
Twenty Years Later
Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)
West With Giraffes
The Lincoln Highway
Dune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovHyperion by Dan SimmonsA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Space Opera
775 books — 889 voters
The Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
1,037 books — 1,320 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Best Intro to Sci-Fi for Young Readers
1,303 books — 1,481 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Have Passport Will Travel
700 books — 723 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All-Time Awesome Books
9,180 books — 5,676 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Top Ten Fantasy Adventure Novels
343 books — 781 voters

The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Treasure Island
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

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