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"

Galaphile (The First Druids of Shannara, #1)

To Steal from Thieves (Thieves & Kings #1)

Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 1

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)

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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 Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2)

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

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

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

Lists

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

Wanderlust

1,028 books — 1,137 voters

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

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

Top Ten Fantasy Adventure Novels

345 books — 559 voters

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

2014 Reads You Don't Want To Miss

926 books — 1,202 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

2,988 books — 836 voters

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Action-Adventure Novels

2,439 books — 2,673 voters

Space Opera

799 books — 989 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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