Adventure Books

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Revenge, murder, hidden treasure, and epic adventure! Dumas' masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo details the wrongful imprisonment of the young sailor Edmond Dantes, a character whose transformation..

Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain is a 1887 sequel to Sir Henry Rider Haggard's famous and sensational novel King Solomon's Mines. Quatermain, an English-born Africa explorer of the Victorian era, is the explicit temp..

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. It is the tale of Prendick, a British scientist, who is shipwrecked off Sumatra, then rescued and brought to an unnamed island...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel is about a man who travels Europe rescuing French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror. It's very well written. The hero is like a less-violent version of Batman. A swashbuckling..

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

Not an adventure or really a story. The life of a sailor on a tall ship. Well told and engaging if that interests you. A detailed and engaging narrative of a sailor aboard a merchant vessel in the 19t..

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

When Henry Miller was asked if there could be a sequel to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, he replied "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." His seemingly odd response suggests the pure American-ness of Twa..

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

This is the classic tale of Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy runs off with Huckleberry Finn. The characters in Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer are composites of his actual childhood friends, throw..

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells coined the term "Martian" for his super-influential 1898 sci-fi classic War of the Worlds, in which England is set upon by spooky "cylinders" from Mars. At first the aliens looked pretty we..