Genre :: Adventure (41 books)

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  #322

  Sister Carrie

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow..."

  

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  #328

  Swallows and Amazons

  by Arthur Ransome

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for..."

  

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  #338

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."

  

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  #340

  Treasure Island

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (10 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "Squire Trelawny, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the..."

  

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  #346

  The Riddle of the Sands

  by Erskine Childers

  (2 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain..."

  

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  #361

  Deliverance

  by James Dickey

  (2 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "Before: It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose. The whole land was very tense until we put our four steins on its corners and laid..."

  

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  #369

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

  by John Buchan

  (3 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life."

  

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  #382

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  by L. Frank Baum

  (10 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife."

  

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  #415

  The Faraway Tree Stories

  by Enid Blyton

  (3 Reviews)

  46 Points

  

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  #432

  Artemis Fowl

  by Eoin Colfer

  (9 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "How does one describe Artemis Fowl? (Prologue)Ho Chi Minh City in the summer."

  

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