Genre :: Adventure (41 books)

  • Martin Eden

    #441

    Martin Eden

    by Jack London

    (1 Review)

    40 Points

    "The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in..."

  • The Ballad of the Salt Sea

    #446

    The Ballad of the Salt Sea

    by Hugo Pratt

    (1 Review)

    39 Points

  • A High Wind in Jamaica

    #477

    A High Wind in Jamaica

    by Richard Hughes

    (2 Reviews)

    30 Points

    "One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined..."

  • Centennial

    #498

    Centennial

    by James A. Michener

    (3 Reviews)

    27 Points

    "Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of..."

  • The Three Musketeers

    #509

    The Three Musketeers

    by Alexandre Dumas

    (11 Reviews)

    24 Points

    "On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."

  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

    #525

    The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

    by Howard Pyle

    (6 Reviews)

    20 Points

    "In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was..."

  • Holes

    #535

    Holes

    by Louis Sachar

    (9 Reviews)

    18 Points

    "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

  • Waverley

    #538

    Waverley

    by Walter Scott

    (2 Reviews)

    17 Points

    "The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent."

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    #557

    The Last of the Mohicans

    by James Fenimore Cooper

    (4 Reviews)

    13 Points

    "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an..."

  • Jurassic Park

    #582

    Jurassic Park

    by Michael Crichton

    (8 Reviews)

    9 Points

    "The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering."