#Adventure

11 books tagged with adventure, sorted by rating.

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

5/5

fiction fantasy

Endurance

by Alfred Lansing

5/5

history

Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer

5/5

memoir

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

5/5

romance

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

5/5

fiction

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

5/5

fantasy fiction

Born to Run

by Christopher McDougall

4/5

health

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

4/5

young-adult fantasy

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

4/5

fiction self-help

The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

4/5

fantasy

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

3/5

mystery

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

5/5

Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe embark on a perilous quest through space and time to rescue Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while working on a mysterious project called a tesseract.

fiction fantasy sci-fi

Endurance

by Alfred Lansing

5/5

Alfred Lansing recounts Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary 1914 Antarctic expedition, where his ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice, stranding his crew on the frozen sea. What followed was one of the greatest survival stories in human history.

history

Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer

5/5

Jon Krakauer's firsthand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers were killed during summit attempts. A journalist assigned to report on the commercialization of Everest, Krakauer found himself in the middle of one of the mountain's deadliest seasons.

memoir

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

5/5

Claire Randall, a former WWII nurse, is mysteriously transported from 1945 Scotland to 1743, where she encounters the gallant Jamie Fraser. Part historical fiction, part romance, part adventure — Gabaldon weaves an epic tale across centuries.

romance

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

5/5

Edmond Dantes, a young sailor falsely imprisoned, escapes and discovers a vast treasure. Reinventing himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, he orchestrates an elaborate and ruthless revenge against those who destroyed his life. The ultimate revenge tale and one of the greatest adventure novels ever written.

fiction

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

5/5

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on an unexpected journey to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent.

fantasy fiction

Born to Run

by Christopher McDougall

4/5

Christopher McDougall travels to Mexico's Copper Canyons to find the Tarahumara, a reclusive tribe of superathletes who run hundreds of miles without injury. Part adventure story, part science journalism, it challenges everything we think we know about running shoes, endurance, and human evolution.

health

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

4/5

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he's the son of Poseidon and is thrust into a world of Greek gods and monsters. Accused of stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt, Percy must journey across America to find the real thief and prevent a war among the gods.

young-adult fantasy

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

4/5

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel follows Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different — and far more satisfying — than he ever imagined. A story about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts and following our dreams.

fiction self-help

The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

4/5

In a fantasy world inspired by Renaissance Venice, orphan Locke Lamora grows up to become the leader of the Gentleman Bastards — a band of con artists who swindle the nobility out of their fortunes. But when a mysterious figure called the Grey King threatens everything Locke holds dear, the stakes become deadly.

fantasy

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

3/5

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre after a curator is found murdered with cryptic symbols carved into his body. Alongside cryptologist Sophie Neveu, Langdon follows a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci that lead to a secret guarded for centuries.

mystery