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The action genre is characterized by more emphasis on exciting action sequences than on character development or story-telling. That is not to say that the action-adventure story does not have memorable characters or circumstances, however. Generally heroes are seen as larger than life, and many times they are prime examples of the epic hero archetype.

Action can also be known as Action-Adventure depending on criteria met. This applies to all age groups, especially popular in Middle Grade adventure stories and adult fiction with spy or adventure leads.

Also see Adventure.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Action"

The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
An Inside Job
Twenty Years Later
Absolute Batman Vol. 1: The Zoo
The Orphanage by the Lake
Pictures of You
Thorns & Fire (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #2)
To Die For (The 6:20 Man, #3)
怪獣8号 1 [Kaijū 8-gō 1]
Eruption
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)
Edge of Honor: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series)
The Boomerang
The Oligarch's Daughter
The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
Death (Mafia Empire #3)
Absolute Superman, Vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton
The Wrong Daughter
He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)
ONE PIECE 112
The Blonde Identity (Blonde Identity, #1)
A Welcome Reunion
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)
Don’t Forget to Write
The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)
Catch the Sun
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3)
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon
SPY×FAMILY 14
The Recovery Agent (Gabriela Rose, #1)
The House of Cross (Alex Cross, #33)
He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #6)
Mercy (Atlee Pine, #4)
He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #7)
The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)
Three Shattered Souls (The Broken Blades, #3)
Don't Be In Love
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #8)
呪術廻戦 27 [Jujutsu Kaisen 27]
He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #9)
The Primal Hunter (The Primal Hunter, #1)
The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)
Daylight (Atlee Pine, #3)
The Patient's Secret
Holmes Is Missing (Holmes, Margaret & Poe, #2)
Dead Line (Arliss Cutter, #7)
The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)
The Unquiet Bones
Absolute Batman (2024-) #1
나 혼자만 레벨업 13 (Solo Leveling, #13)
The Big Empty (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #20)
Savage Son (Terminal List #3)
Midnight Black (Gray Man, #14)
No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)
Echo Road (Mercy Kilpatrick, #9; Bree Taggert, #9)
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
The Swimmer
ダンダダン 2 [Dan Da Dan 2]
South of Nowhere (Colter Shaw #5)
나 혼자만 레벨업 2 (Solo Leveling, #2)
The Year of the Locust
Extinction (Cash & Colcord #1)
Hard Lights (A Jon Reznick Thriller, #14)
Tom Clancy: Line of Demarcation (Jack Ryan Jr., #19)
The First Death (Columbia River, #4)
The Primal Hunter 5 (The Primal Hunter, #5)
呪術廻戦 26 [Jujutsu Kaisen 26]
Terminal Velocity (Jack Ryan, Jr. #14)
怪獣8号 14 [Kaijū 8-gō 14]
The Primal Hunter 4 (The Primal Hunter, #4)
Assassins Anonymous (Assassins Anonymous #1)
Sunday Morning (Sunday Morning, #1)
The Elias Enigma (Caspian Anderson, #2)
Better Off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
The Primal Hunter 3 (The Primal Hunter, #3)
The Devil's Hand (Terminal List, #4)
Departure 37
Rage and Ruin (The Harbinger, #2)
Captive (Captive, #2)
チェンソーマン 12 [Chainsaw Man 12]
The Half King (The Half King, #1)
呪術廻戦 24 [Jujutsu Kaisen 24]
Waybound (Cradle, #12)
Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)
Edge of Darkness (Edge of Collapse, #3)
The Primal Hunter 2 (The Primal Hunter, #2)
In the Blood (Terminal List, #5)
呪術廻戦 25 [Jujutsu Kaisen 25]
The Record Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #3)
ダンダダン 14 [Dan Da Dan 14]
Passions in Death (In Death, #59)
전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
ガチアクタ 2 [Gachiakuta 2]
Shadow of Doubt (Scot Harvath #23)
2 Sisters Detective Agency (2 Sisters Detective Agency, #1)
呪術廻戦 23 [Jujutsu Kaisen 23]
The Bourne Escape (Jason Bourne #21)

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