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"

The Lost Guardian
The Jewel of Corlivo
This Is a Door
Karabos (The Timebound Duology Book 1)
Reign
An Empire in the Clouds
#VanDeath
True North: On the Road in Canada
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
The Pirate Queen
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
Dodge City
The Astral Library
The Last to Drown
Heartwood
The Fires of December (Hoid's Travails, #3)
The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
He Who Fights with Monsters 13
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
Allegiant by Veronica RothClockwork Princess by Cassandra ClareScarlet by Marissa MeyerRequiem by Lauren OliverBoundless by Cynthia Hand
YA & MG Novels of 2013
401 books — 640 voters

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’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
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Treasure Island
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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)

G.K. Chesterton
“ An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ”
― G.K. Chesterton

Oprah Winfrey
“ The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. ”
― Oprah Winfrey

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