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

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暁のヨナ 37 [Akatsuki no Yona 37] (Yona of the Dawn, #37)
Right Here Waiting (Deep Haven Collection, #6)
Jan Brett's the Nutcracker
The Lincoln Highway
Better off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
The Christmas Pig
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy, #2)
The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2)
Daughter of the Siren Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #2)
Cytonic (Skyward, #3)
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
West with Giraffes
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
To Kill a Kingdom
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Treasure Island
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
Divergent by Veronica RothThe Moon Dwellers by David EstesThe Maze Runner by James DashnerGraceling by Kristin CashoreUglies by Scott Westerfeld
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The Best Time Travel Books of All Time
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHatchet by Gary PaulsenCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsLord of the Flies by William GoldingLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Best Survival Stories
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Most Interesting World
4,296 books — 2,753 voters

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Have Passport Will Travel
610 books — 712 voters
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Top Fast-Paced Mystery
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Søren Kierkegaard
“ To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self. ...more ”
― Søren Kierkegaard

Edward Abbey
“ One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the river ...more ”
― Edward Abbey

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