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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Yuli (Guardians of Dawn, #3)
Teo's Durumi (The Alliance, #2)
Lady Dragon
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The Space Cat
The Memory Hunters (The Consecrated, #1)
Heart Marks the Spot
The Gryphon King (The Chaos Constellation, #1)
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
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Miss Camper
Sea Otter Sunrise (Magic Tree House Book 40)
Norman and the Smell of Adventure
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Never Lie
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
Heartwood
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Heat of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #3)
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
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Isola
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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 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)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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)

Jack Kerouac
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ...more
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

K.  Ritz
The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.
K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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