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

New Releases Tagged "Adventure"

Max in the Land of Lies (Operation Kinderspion, #2)

A Wolf Called Fire (Voice of the Wilderness #4)

After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice

If You Find a Fawn: A What-to-Do for Wild Wanderers (Disney Planet Possible)

Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

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The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures #1)

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

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

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

The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2)

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)

Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

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

Lists

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Best Time Travel Books of All Time

792 books — 1,647 voters

The Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf by Lola Glass

Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate Hunter

The Lies of Vampires and Slayers by K.M. Shea

House of Vampires and Flame by Meg Xuemei X

Sizzling Summer Sensations

2,987 books — 835 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Top Ten Fantasy Adventure Novels

345 books — 559 voters

Books About Video Games and Virtual Reality

440 books — 843 voters

If You Loved The Hunger Games

669 books — 1,344 voters

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Best Traveling Vicariously

2,089 books — 1,812 voters

Adventure Books

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #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)

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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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ 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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