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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The Ashfire King (The Sandsea Trilogy, #2)
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
Heartwood
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
Gray After Dark
The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
Ask for Andrea
The Blood Traitor (The Prison Healer, #3)
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
Swept Away
The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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 Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Treasure Island
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)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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)

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ...more
Drew Barrymore

Lewis Carroll
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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