Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Adventure"

The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)

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

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)

Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

The Sacred Well Murders (Mary Wandwalker #1)

Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast #0.5)

The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

Booked for Murder (An Old Juniper Bookstore Mystery, #1)

The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters, #8)

Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #2)

The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)

Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)

What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects, #2)

The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)

He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)

He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)

Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #9)

He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)

He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)

The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)

Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2)

He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)

Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)

The Blonde Identity (Blonde Identity, #1)

He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)

Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)

The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold (Blonde Identity, #2)

Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

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Quotes Tagged “Adventure”

“ Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. ”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“ While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told t ...more ”
― Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

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