100+ Best Adventure Books That Everyone Must Read

Adventures are always an exciting experience for any person. They can be found in traditional outdoor activities like traveling or skydiving. Reading a thrilling adventure book is also a fantastic experience no matter if you are taken to the frozen hell of mountains, hunting for buried treasure, or exploring faraway jungles.

If you are seeking for this kind of adrenaline, BooKKooks offers a list of the best adventure books ever written. Expect to meet 100+ titles recommended and highly rated by literary critics and readers of all time. Let’s review the rank from more to less fascinating books.

Top 18 Famous Adventure Books from Best to Worst

Rank	Review	Name	Author	Date	Page	Cover	Rating
1		Lord of the Flies View Details	William Golding	2013	256	Hardcover	10.0
2		Into the Wild View Details	Jon Krakauer	1996	224	Hardcover	9.9
3		Hatchet View Details	Gary Paulsen	2000	208	Hardcover	9.7
4		The Road View Details	Cormac McCarthy	2006	241	Hardcover	9.6
5		The Old Man and the Sea View Details	Ernest Hemingway	1995	128	Paperback	9.5
6		Watership Down View Details	Richard Adams	2014	496	Hardcover	9.4
7		The Chronicles of Narnia View Details	C. S. Lewis	2007	Set of 7 books	Hardcover	9.3
8		The Odyssey View Details	Homer	2017	206	Hardcover	9.2
9		Ready Player One View Details	Ernest Cline	2011	384	Hardcover	9.0
10		Life of Pi View Details	Yann Martel	2003	326	Paperback	8.9
11		The Secret Lake View Details	Karen Inglis	2011	122	Paperback	8.8
12		The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America View Details	Albert Marrin	2007	256	Hardcover	8.7
13		Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail View Details	Cheryl Strayed	2012	336	Hardcover	8.5
14		The Sign of the Beaver View Details	Elizabeth George Speare	1983	144	Hardcover	8.4
15		The Martian View Details	Andy Weir	2014	384	Hardcover	8.3
16		Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage View Details	Alfred Lansing	2001	288	Hardcover	8.2
17		A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail View Details	Bill Bryson	1999	276	Paperback	8.1
18		Journey to the Center of the Earth View Details	Jules Verne	2009	260	Hardcover	8.0

Lord of the Flies: Best Adventure Book of All Time

This book was written in 1954 by the British author and Nobel Prize winner William Golding. It focuses on a group of schoolboys who appear being stranded on an uninhabited island after a plane crash. Far from civilization and without adult supervision, the boys try to forge their own society but fail in the face of sin, terror, and evil.

The author touches the themes of morality and immorality, rationality and emotions, and group and individual thinking. This popular reading in schools is also ranked as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

The novel has 3 film adaptations and has inspired a lot of musicians and writers.

Into the Wild: Awesome Story About Wilderness

The book describes the adventures and mysterious death of the young man Christopher Johnson McCandless in search of transcendent experience encouraged by books of Henry David Thoreau and Jack London, who lived in the Victorian era.

The man gave his college fund to charity, abandoned his family and his possessions, and began traveling across the USA without maps and under a new name. He disappeared in the Alaskan wilderness and was found dead after 4 months. The author of the book Jon Krakauer suggests that death was caused by poisonous seeds of some edible plant.

The film adaptation based on the book was released in 2007 directed by Sean Penn.

Hatchet: Good Survival Adventure Book

With more than 100 books in his collection, Gary Paulsen is considered one of the most honored writers for young readers.

This novel portrays a 13-year-old boy, a son of divorced parents, who plans to visit his father. The trip ends in a plane crash, and the boy is the only survivor. He is alone in the Canadian wilderness without anything except a hatchet, a present from his mother. Throughout the summer, he learns how to survive and deal with various threats of nature like wild animals and even a tornado.

The author continued the story of the boy with 4 more novels.

The Road: Top Post Apocalyptic Adventure

The book is written by the American novelist and screenwriter Cormac McCarthy known for his unique writing style, recognizable by a lack of punctuation.

This is a post-apocalyptic novel about a father and his son walking through burnt America to the sea to find a better place for living, but they don’t know what awaits them at this destination. The things they have are a pistol to fight against lawless bands, their clothes, and a cart with scavenged food.

This story is about a journey with no hope. The only thing that keeps these people alive in this ultimate destructiveness is their love for each other.

The Old Man and the Sea Book

This short novel written by the American novelist Ernest Hemingway brought him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and contributed to his Nobel Prize in the literature (1954) making the author a celebrity in one day.

The story tells about an aging and experienced fisherman who is unlucky for the last 80 days without catching a fish, but one day he struggles with a huge marlin far off the coast of Cuba.

This is a timeless classic for all ages, which has been adapted for the screen 3 times.

Watership Down: Stunning Animal Illustrations

Watership Down is a debut novel written by the English author Richard Adams. Initially, he told the story to his young daughters during a car journey and then decided to put it on paper.

The name of the book denotes a real place – a hill in Hampshire, close to the place where Adams was born.

The story revolves around a group of rabbits who escape the destruction of their home and seek a new place to establish their shelter. They face a lot of temptations and perils on their way to Watership Down.

The characters are anthropomorphized, possessing their own language, culture, mythology, and poetry.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Nice Fantasy Adventure

This series of fantasy novels are written by the English author C. S. Lewis and is originally published between 1950 and 1956.

The action is set in the fantasy world of Narnia full of talking animals, mythical beasts, and magic. The protagonists are always children who are transported to this world by magic. The books narrate the whole history of Narnia from its creation to the eventual destruction.

In the post-WWII (World War II) era, those books had a great influence on fantasy literature. They are adapted for television, radio, and stage performance.

The Odyssey by Homer: Epic Adventure Book

The Odyssey is an epic tale written by Homer near the end of the 8th century B.C. It describes the Greek hero Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. It takes him 10 years of sailing to reach Ithaca and meet his wife Penelope.

The book is written in a mixture of Ancient Greek dialects and comprises 12,110 lines. The image of the hero inspired numerous authors and composers to use it in their works. Most writers seek to imagine a new ending for the book.

Ready Player One: Good Science Fiction with Adventures

Ready Player One is a debut science fiction novel from the American writer Ernest Cline. The action is set in the dystopian world in 2045 with the protagonist Wade Watts. In the very near future, the world will turn in a bleak place where OASIS is the only place that people like to visit. By plugging to this virtual reality world, most of the humanity find whatever they want.

The man dreams to find 3 keys in this game because the victory will allow him to inherit the fortune left by the eccentric game creator. He finds the first clue, but there are a lot of rivals ready to kill to take the prize.

Life of Pi: Outstanding Adventure Fiction Book

The author of Life of Pi is Yann Martel, a Canadian writer born in Spain. This story is about the 16-year boy Piscine (Pi) Patel, a son of a zookeeper. When his family emigrates to North America, their ship sinks, and the boy leaves alone in a lifeboat with several animals, including a 450-lbs Bengal tiger.

He survives 227 days in the Pacific Ocean until rescued near the coast of Mexico. The tiger escapes to the jungle, and the local authorities don’t believe the boy’s fantastic deliverance.

The book was adapted for a film by the 4-Oscar winner, director Ang Lee.

The Secret Lake: Great for Children

This story from Karen Inglis will be interesting for girls and boys aged 8-12. Trying to find a missing dog of their neighbor, two siblings Tom and Stella discover a time tunnel and a lake that takes them to this very place 100 years in the past.

In this world, they will have lots of mystery adventures, make friends (and enemies), and help a young boy who is in trouble.

The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America

The author of the book is Albert Marrin, an American professor of history and an author of more than 40 non-fiction books for teenagers.

This time in the American Adventure series, he describes the life of a dominant political figure who has become a symbol of America. Teddy Roosevelt (as called by friends) is the first American who received a Nobel Prize. Highlighting his achievements that made Roosevelt an influential person and a hero of the country, the author shows his faults as well.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

This story is a memoir of Cheryl Strayed who lost her mother died of cancer and had her marriage destroyed at the age of 22. She started a 1,100-mile hike on her own on the Pacific Crest Trail, which lasts from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State.

Having no experience in long-distance hiking, the woman managed that adventure, which strengthened and completely healed her. She was ill-equipped but succeeded to survive among bears and rattlesnakes.

The Sign of the Beaver: Cool for Young Adults

The Sign of the Beaver is written by the U.S. writer Elizabeth George Speare known for children’s books, and her works have become mandatory for reading in schools.

The book describes a 13-year-old boy left alone in his cabin home in the Maine Wilderness while his father transports the rest of the family to a new house. He befriends with a grandson of the Indian chief of the Beaver tribe. The boy discovers new facts in the relationships between Native Americans and new settlers and is even invited to join the tribe.

The Martian: Awesome Space Adventure Book

This is the first novel of Andy Weir, a software engineer and an expert in relativistic physics and orbital mechanics, whose path to the world fame was unrepeatable. He self-published his book and earned millions on it.

In this novel, the author takes readers to Mars. One of the astronauts was presumed dead and left behind on this inhospitable planet. The man succeeds to survive on the Red Planet until the Earth sends a rescue mission. The smart protagonist improvises solutions and escapes danger.

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

This is the best-known book written by Alfred Lansing named after the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew in their expedition to the South Pole in 1914.

The expedition failed after the ship had been trapped and crushed in the ice. This was a very detailed account of the voyage since the author spoke with all crew members and was granted access to personal diaries and journals.

The members of the expedition spent several months of drifting on ice packs with no food and medicines attacked by Antarctic sea leopards.

Spoiler: all the men got home safely.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

The book is a modern classic of travel literature written by Bill Bryson. The author has spent 20 years in Britain, and when he is back in the States, he decides to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail with a group of companions. He describes astonishing landscapes with awesome lakes and forests. Like a professional guide, he gives a lot of historical facts about these places. The author tells a lot of jokes and witty remarks.

Journey to the Center of the Earth: Top Book with Historical Review

This science fiction novel was written by Jules Verne in 1864. It narrates about the eccentric professor Lidenbrock who acquires an ancient book and finds a piece of parchment between the pages. He deciphers the text that leads him and his nephew Alex to an adventure.

The men believe there are volcanic tubes that go toward the core of the Earth. They descend into an extinct Icelandic volcano and discover an astonishing subterranean world with prehistoric animals.

The book has numerous film adaptations, animated television and radio serials, video and board game adaptations.

Additional Books About Adventures for Readers

This list features a broader selection of adventure novels with a synopsis of each masterpiece. The collection is suitable for any type of reader since it includes fantasy, romance, history, and books of other genres.

Review	Name	Author	Date	Page	Cover	Description
	The Hobbit View Details	J.R.R. Tolkien	2012	300	Paperback	The hobbit Bilbo Baggins enjoys his quiet and comfortable life until one day he starts an adventurous journey that will change his life.
	The Great Railway Bazaar: by Train Through Asia View Details	Paul Theroux	1976	342	Hardcover	This is a railway odyssey that describes the author’s adventures in the most famous Asia’s trains.
	The Land of Stories View Details	Chris Colfer	2018	2896	Paperback	The story, which comes in 6 books, describes a journey of two brothers who find themselves in another setting – a foreign land full of magic and fairytale characters.
	The Lord of the Rings View Details	J.R.R. Tolkien	2000	1504	Hardcover	This epic high-fantasy novel (trilogy) is a sequel to The Hobbit that tells about adventures across Middle-earth.
	Bridge to Terabithia View Details	Katherine Paterson	2017	192	Hardcover	Jess and Leslie are two inseparable friends who create a magical kingdom in the woods called Terabithia.
	Into Thin Air View Details	Jon Krakauer	1997	293	Hardcover	This bone-chilling narrative is a first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest.
	The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey View Details	Candice Millard	2005	432	Hardcover	This is a true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s exploration of one of the most dangerous Amazon rivers.
	The High Adventure of Eric Ryback View Details	Eric Ryback	1973	166	Paperback	At the age of 18, the author of the book accomplished a 25,000-mile journey on foot from Canada to Mexico.
	The Stand View Details	Stephen King	1990	1152	Hardcover	This is the author’s apocalyptic vision of the world blasted by plague and embroiled in a struggle between good and evil.
	Captain Blood View Details	Rafael Sabatini	2011	250	Paperback	This novel is about an Irish physician and soldier who turned into the bravest Caribbean pirate.
	The Mayflower Adventure View Details	Colleen L. Reece	1998	135	Paperback	This is a multi-generational story of a fictional family that spans 3 centuries of actual historical events.
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn View Details	Mark Twain	2006	320	Hardcover	The boy named Huck, introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with the runaway slave Jim sets his journey down the Mississippi.
	The Call of the Wild View Details	Jack London	2018	66	Paperback	The story set during the Klondike Gold Rush describes a domesticated dog that is forced to survive alone in a harsh climate.
	The Big Book of Adventure Stories View Details	Otto Penzler (editor)	2011	896	Paperback	The book includes a collection of adventure stories from world-famous authors.
	My Side of the Mountain View Details	Jean Craighead George	1999	192	Hardcover	This is a story about a boy who runs away from his family to live in the mountains and survives on his own.
	Travels with Charley in Search of America View Details	John Steinbeck	1980	277	Paperback	With his poodle, the author drives the country roads and describes people and places he sees.
	Jurassic Park View Details	Michael Crichton	2012	448	Hardcover	After the technique for cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered, these creatures roam Jurassic Park.
	The Books of Caledan Trilogy View Details	Meg Cowley	2018	828	Paperback	This is an epic fantasy novel full of dragons, elves, and humans.
	American Gods View Details	Neil Gaiman	2017	576	Paperback	The protagonist accepts a job from a stranger, which turns out to be both interesting and dangerous.
	Conquistadors of the Useless View Details	Lionel Terray	1963	352	Hardcover	The book portrays the climbs of the famous French mountaineer Lionel Terray.
	Endurance View Details	Scott Kelly	2017	400	Hardcover	This is a memoir of the astronaut who spent a year aboard the International Space Station.
	The Long Walk View Details	Slavomir Rawicz	2010	288	Hardcover	This is a true tale about an escape of the author and other 6 prisoners from the Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk and their long surviving way to British India.
	Pass the Butterworms View Details	Tim Cahill	1997	283	Hardcover	The author takes readers on a journey to remote areas with the deepest jungle and immense grassland of Peru, Honduras, and Mongolia.
	The Three Musketeers View Details	Alexandre Dumas	2014	398	Paperback	This historical novel with the action set in the 17th century recounts the adventures of the young man D'Artagnan who comes to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard.
	Moby-Dick: or, the Whale View Details	Herman Melville	2018	556	Paperback	The Captain Ahab leads his crew on a quest to kill the enormous sperm whale Moby-Dick responsible for his missing leg.
	Desert Solitaire View Details	Edward Abbey	1988	256	Hardcover	The author spent 2 summers in Utah's canyonlands and described the beauty of contemporary American nature.
	The Worst Journey in the World View Details	Apsley Cherry-Garrard	2006	640	Paperback	As a member of the team, the author recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.
	Out of Africa View Details	Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)	2011	336	Paperback	This story is a farewell to the time spent by the author in Kenya and her beloved coffee-farm.
	The Snow Leopard View Details	Peter Matthiessen	1996	352	Paperback	The book portrays the author’s 5-week trek to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and to glimpse the rare snow leopard.
	Dead Mountain: the Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident View Details	Donnie Eichar	2013	288	Hardcover	This is an untold true story that describes a mysterious death of 9 experienced Russian hikers in the Ural Mountains.
	Deep Survival View Details	Laurence Gonzales	2017	336	Paperback	The book combines survival science, adventure narrative, and practical advice on how to assess risk and take control over stress.
	Alone on the Ice: the Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration View Details	David Roberts	2013	368	Hardcover	The story tells about a self-rescue journey of a famous Australian explorer during the Antarctic Expedition.
	Green Hills of Africa View Details	Ernest Hemingway	2015	304	Hardcover	Here is a vivid description of the author’s safari in Africa with his wife Pauline.
	Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country View Details	Bill Bryson	2001	427	Paperback	The author describes his journey to Australia, a unique and controversial continent.
	Heart of Darkness View Details	Joseph Conrad	2018	78	Paperback	First published in 1899, this story within a story portrays the adventures of an ivory transporter in Africa and exposes corrupt European colonialism.
	The Right Stuff View Details	Tom Wolfe	1983	367	Paperback	The book focuses on the U.S. Mercury Space program and the personalities of the pilots who often lose their lives trying to beat the Russians in space.
	One Second After View Details	William R. Forstchen	2009	352	Hardcover	America loses a war based on electromagnetic pulse weapons and is sent back to the Dark Ages.
	The Sea Runners View Details	Ivan Doig	2006	288	Paperback	Based on a true story in 1853, the book describes an escape of 2 servants from the Alaska work camp and their trials on the way to freedom.
	Wind, Sand and Stars View Details	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	2010	220	Hardcover	Written with a spirit of a philosopher, the book describes air adventures with all the beauty, danger, and isolation of flights.
	The Road to Oxiana View Details	Robert Byron	2007	291	Paperback	In 1933, the author set out on a trip through the Middle East and recorded his discoveries and misadventures.
	Turn Right at Machu Picchu View Details	Mark Adams	2011	352	Hardcover	The author takes readers to his own trip to Peru and describes the ancient Inca capital.
	Skeletons on the Zahara View Details	Dean King	2004	320	Hardcover	The author refreshes a popular 19-century narrative about several people who shipwrecked and their subsequent ordeal in the Sahara desert.
	Deliverance View Details	James Dickey	1994	288	Hardcover	The narration is set in the wilderness of Georgia and describes a canoe trip of 4 men, which turns into a struggle for survival.
	In the Heart of the Sea View Details	Nathaniel Philbrick	2000	302	Hardcover	The author restores a story that happened in 1820 about a whaling ship sunk by a huge sperm whale and incredible survival of the crew.
	The Lost World View Details	Arthur Conan Doyle	2016	102	Hardcover	This is an unabridged version of enjoyable classic about Professor Challenger in the terrifying world of dinosaurs.
	The Hike View Details	Drew Magary	2017	409	Hardcover	This fantasy saga weaves the elements of video games and folk tales into a thrilling adventure that a man has to endure to return home.
	The Revenant View Details	Michael Punke	2015	272	Hardcover	The book describes a true story of a 19-century frontier and expert tracker who tries to survive after his face-to-face attack with a grizzly bear.
	Howl’s Moving Castle View Details	Diana Wynne Jones	2001	336	Paperback	This fantasy novel for kids describes a young girl transformed into an old lady by a witch and her adventures as she tries to break the spell.
	In Patagonia View Details	Bruce Chatwin	2003	240	Paperback	The book records the author’s trip to the southern tip of South America, a land of legends and bandits.
	Empire of the Sun View Details	J. G. Ballard	1985	375	Paperback	Famous due to the Steven Spielberg's film, the book tells of a young British boy's struggle to survive during World War II in China.
	Walden View Details	Henry David Thoreau	2018	196	Paperback	Being a noted transcendentalist of the 19th century, the author describes his living in a cabin in woodland during 2 years to attract attention to his philosophy.
	A Voyage for Madmen View Details	Peter Nichols	2002	336	Paperback	The author chronicles a contest of 9 sailors who decided to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in 1968. Not all of them crossed the finish line.
	The Mountain: My Time on Everest View Details	Ed Viesturs	2013	352	Hardcover	This world-class climber has reached Everest 7 times and makes a detailed account of his expeditions.
	Travels in Siberia View Details	Ian Frazier	2011	560	Paperback	Siberia has played an important role in Russian history nurturing great writers and giving shelter to political exiles.
	Treasure Island View Details	Robert Louis Stevenson	2017	24	Hardcover	Dennis R. Shealy made an awesome summary of a world-known pirate story for preschoolers.
	Uncharted: the Fourth Labyrinth View Details	Christopher Golden	2011	322	Paperback	This is an official novel of an award-winning video game franchise where the treasure hunter Nathan Drake is in his eternal struggle with the evil.
	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea View Details	Jules Verne	2017	528	Hardcover	The book describes an epic journey of 3 men under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine, the Nautilus.
	Tarzan of the Apes View Details	Edgar Rice Burroughs	2012	432	Hardcover	This is a heartwarming story about a human boy raised by the she-ape Kala in the jungle.
	No Picnic on Mount Kenya View Details	Felice Benuzzi	2017	320	Hardcover	The book describes a daring escape followed by a mountain climb of the author and his fellow Italian soldiers from a POW (Prisoner-of-War Camps) camp during WWII.
	Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx View Details	Max McCoy	1999	197	Paperback	In this book, the Princeton professor travels through the Orient in search of another ancient artifact, the Omega Book.
	King Solomon's Mines View Details	H. Rider Haggard	2008	232	Hardcover	The famous safari hunter Allan Quartermain starts his journey in order to find King Solomon's legendary cache of diamonds.
	Pirate Latitudes View Details	Michael Crichton	2016	384	Paperback	This is an irresistible tale about treasure hunting and betrayal with pirates of the Caribbean involved.
	The Sea-Wolf View Details	Jack London	2019	300	Hardcover	The book narrates about a literary critic who was rescued after the shipwreck by a seal-hunting schooner with the demonic captain.
	Gulliver's Travels View Details	Jonathan Swift	2018	178	Paperback	This classic of English literature describes the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver to 4 different parts of the world.
	The Terror View Details	Dan Simmons	2007	784	Hardcover	The author describes a real-life expedition to the Arctic Circle in 1845 that turned out to be unsuccessful.
	A Cook's Tour View Details	Anthony Bourdain	2002	288	Paperback	The author likes cooking as much as adventures and travels around the world on a quest for new extraordinary meals.
	Robinson Crusoe View Details	Daniel Defoe	2018	158	Paperback	First published in the 18th century, the book describes a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island.
	The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon View Details	David Grann	2009	352	Hardcover	The book describes a true story that happened in 1925 about the mysterious disappearance of a famous explorer in his search of an ancient civilization in Amazon.
	A Perfect Storm View Details	Sebastian Junger	1997	240	Hardcover	The book is a real-time thriller that recreates the last moments of the crew on a swordfishing boat who fell victims of a storm.
	The Time Machine View Details	H. G. Wells	2019	59	Hardcover	Nicholas Ruddick made a cool children’s adaptation of a famous novel about a time traveler who explores the future.
	The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down View Details	Andrew McCarthy	2013	288	Paperback	A famous travel writer and actor takes readers on another fascinating and dangerous journey.
	Night Probe! View Details	Clive Cussler	1981	344	Hardcover	The American agent Dirk Pitt is sent on a deep-sea mission to recover a lost treaty in the watery depths of the Atlantic.
	The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures View Details	John Henry Patterson	2007	212	Hardcover	The author recounts his move and adventures to East Africa and trials with the man-eating lions.
	Kon-Tiki View Details	Thor Heyerdahl	1993	272	Hardcover	The author describes his astonishing journey of 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft in order to find a mystic hero.
	Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea View Details	Steven Callahan	1987	352	Paperback	The author alone spends more than 2 months in the open sea fighting for his life in an inflatable raft.
	West with the Night View Details	Beryl Markham	1994	288	Hardcover	The author describes the days of her growing up in Africa breeding and training racehorses who becomes the first woman to fly the Atlantic.
	A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush View Details	Eric Newby	1999	247	Hardcover	With no experience in mountaineering, the author sets out a journey to explore the Nuristan Mountains in Afghanistan.
	The Count of Monte Cristo View Details	Alexandre Dumas	2004	688	Paperback	The book describes thrilling adventures of a man's quest for freedom and revenge on people who betrayed him.
	Touching the Void View Details	Joe Simpson	2009		Hardcover	This is a heart-stopping true account of the author’s terrifying adventure to the Peruvian Andes.
	Last of the Breed View Details	Louis L'Amour	1999	367	Paperback	The aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Major is forced down in Russia, and he escapes the Soviet prison camp trying to survive in the vast Siberian wilderness.
	Lost Horizon View Details	James Hilton	1965	169	Paperback	In their attempts to escape a civil war, 4 people appear in the Tibetan mountains where they find a hidden monastery beyond the grasp of a doomed world.
	Around the World in Eighty Days View Details	Jules Verne	2019	228	Hardcover	This is an immortal story about a wealthy Londoner who was challenged for 20,000 pounds to go around the world in 80 days.
	K2. The Savage Mountain View Details	Charles Houston, Robert H. Bates	1954	334	Hardcover	This is a story of adventure on one of the world’s most dangerous mountains.
	On the Road View Details	Jack Kerouac	1999	293	Paperback	The author tells the story of 2 friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for true experience and meaning.
	K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain View Details	Ed Viesturs	2009	352	Hardcover	This is a thrilling chronicle of climbing K2, the most unpredictable and difficult mountain in the world.
	Treasure Hunters View Details	James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein	2019	384	Paperback	This is a captivating story about a group of kids who are searching for the secret treasure that will save America.

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Conclusions

If you are a busy person with little free time, BooKKooks will save time on choosing a good adventure book and offer a selection of the best novels. To read a well-written novel and get lost in its marvelous world is a real pleasure that will remain in your memory for long. Today you are turning page after page, while someday you will find a true adventure in your life. Start with the top-selling books above and share your opinion about the favorites!

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