Adventure (Bookshelf)

The adventure novel is a literary genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction.

—Excerpted from Adventure novel on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

The adventure genre overlaps with a number of other genres, notably science fiction, fantasy, sea novels and westerns. The list presented here is confined to fictional adventure stories that do not fit easily into these other genres.

Contents 1 John Buchan (1875-1940) 2 Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875-1950 3 Alexander Dumas, père (1802-1870) 4 John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) 5 Arthur O. Friel (1887–1959) 6 H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) 7 Anthony Hope (1863-1933) 8 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 9 Jack London (1876-1916) 10 Talbot Mundy (1879-1940) 11 Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) 12 Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) 13 Robert Louis Stevenson (1860-1894) 14 Jules Verne (1828-1905) 15 Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)

John Buchan (1875-1940)

Links for John Buchan: Wikipedia

• Prester John 
• The Richard Hannay books:
  • The Thirty-nine Steps 
  • Greenmantle 
  • Mr Standfast 
    If you live in a Life + 50 country you can legally download more John Buchan ebooks from PG of Australia.

Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875-1950

Links for Edgar Rice Burroughs: Wikipedia, ISFDB

Plausibility, even within the limits of his bizarre plan, is not Mr. BURROUGHS' strong suit, but exciting incident, ingeniously imagined and staged, with swift movement, undoubtedly is — from a review of Son of Tarzan in Punch, April 2, 1919 

• Tarzan of the Apes  Audio 
• Tarzan the Terrible  Audio 
• Tarzan the Untamed  Audio 
• Son of Tarzan  Audio 
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar  Audio 
• Jungle Tales of Tarzan  Audio 
• Beasts of Tarzan  Audio 
  If you live in a Life + 50 country you can legally download more Tarzan ebooks from PG of Australia.

Alexander Dumas, père (1802-1870)

Links for Alexander Dumas: Wikipedia

• The Count of Monte Cristo 
• D'Artagnan Series.
  • The Three Musketeers  Covers the years 1625-1628.
  • Twenty Years After  Covers the years 1648-1649.
  • The Vicomte de Bragelonne  First 75 chapters of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the year 1660.
  • Ten Years Later  Chapters 76-140 of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the years 1660-1661.
  • Louise de la Valliere  Chapters 141-208 of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the year 1661.
  • The Man in the Iron Mask  Chapters 209-269 of the third D'Artagnan book. Covers the years 1661-1673.

John Meade Falkner (1858-1932)

Links for John Meade Falkner: Wikipedia

• Moonfleet  (England, smuggling, hidden treasure)

Arthur O. Friel (1887–1959)

Links for Arthur O. Friel: Wikipedia

• The Pathless Trail  (South America, jungle, Amazon)

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

Links for H. Rider Haggard: Wikipedia

• Allan Quatermain: (note that the Quatermain books have no consistent internal chronology, so the listing here is in no particular order)
  • King Solomon's Mines  (Africa)
  • Allan Quatermain  (Africa)
  • Hunter Quartermain's Story 
  • She and Allan 
  • Allan and the Holy Flower 
  • Allan's Wife 
  • The Ancient Allan 
  • Finished 
  • Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand 
  • Marie 
  • Child of Storm 
  • The Ivory Child 
  • The Ancient Allan 
• She
  • She  (Africa, featuring "She Who Must Be Obeyed")
  • Ayesha  (sequel to "She")
  • She and Allan 
• The People of the Mist 

Anthony Hope (1863-1933)

Links for Anthony Hope: Wikipedia

• The Prisoner of Zenda 
• Rupert of Hentzau 

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Links for Rudyard Kipling: Wikipedia

• Kim  (India, travels)
• Captains Courageous  (life on a fishing boat)

Jack London (1876-1916)

Links for Jack London: Wikipedia

• The Call of the Wild  (Alaska), also available as Human-read audio book 
• White Fang  (Alaska)

Talbot Mundy (1879-1940)

Links for Talbut Mundy: Wikipedia

• Affair in Araby 
• Caesar Dies 
• Caves of Terror 
• Eye of Zeitoon 
• Guns of the Gods 
• Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders 
• Ivory Trail 
• Jimgrim and Allah's Peace 
• King of the Khyber Rifles 
• Lion of Petra 
• Rung Ho! 
• Told in the East 
• Winds of the World 
  If you live in a Life + 50 country you can legally download more Talbot Mundy ebooks from PG of Australia.

Baroness Orczy (1865-1947)

Links for Baroness Orczy: Wikipedia

• The exploits of Sir Percy Blakeney, better known as the Scarlet Pimpernel:
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel 
  • The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel 
  • The Elusive Pimpernel 
  • El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 
  • If you live in a Life + 50 country you can legally download more Scarlet Pimpernel ebooks from PG of Australia.

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

Links for Rafael Sabatini: Wikipedia

• Scaramouche 
• Captain Blood 

Robert Louis Stevenson (1860-1894)

Links for Robert Louis Stevenson: Wikipedia

• The Black Arrow 
• Kidnapped 
• Catriona  (sequel to Kidnapped)

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

Links for Jules Verne: Wikipedia

• Around the World in Eighty Days  (travels)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon  (Africa, travels)

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)

Links for Edgar Wallace: Wikipedia

• Sanders of the River  (Africa)
• Bones  (Africa)
• The Keepers of the King's Peace  (Africa)
• Bones in London  (Africa)
• The Book of All-Power  (Russia)