Leisure Reading Suggestions: Adventure CHARACTERISTICS: Adventures are fast-paced, plot-driven tales that showcase the heroic actions of likeable characters who follow their own moral code. They are typically the gripping story of a group of people (usually male) who have a big problem to overcome (such as war, hardship, or a physical confron- tation of some sort) and must work together as a team to resolve it. Adventure stories provide thrills, but differ from ‘thrillers’ in that there are rarely plot tricks and twists and there is no uncertainty about the outcome. Justice will prevail and the good guys will win. Adventure fiction usually features a great deal of daring physical action and the characters tend to be stereotypical, and not realistic.
Classics
Joseph Conrad: PR6005 .O4 (Print and eBooks) Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Norstromo Max Brand (eBooks) C. S. Forester: PR6011 .O56 (print and eBooks): The General, Lord Hornblower se-
Zane Grey (eBooks) Louis L’Amour: PS3523 .A446: Comstock Lode, To the Far Blue Mountains, The
Jack London: OS3523 .O46 (Print and eBooks): Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, White Fang Alistair MacLean: PR6030 .A248: Bear Island, Caravan to Vaccares, Captain Cook Rafael Sabatini: PR6037 .A2: The Urbinian, The Romantic Prince, Heroic Lives W.E.B. Griffin: PS3557 .R489137 The Generals Antoine de Saint-Exupery, PQ2367 .A274, Wind, Sand, and Stars
Exotic Adventure Clive Cussler: PS3553 .U75 Inca Gold, Cyclops, Raise the Titanic! H. Rider Haggard: PR4761 (print and eBooks): Montezuma’s Daughter, King Solo-
Wilbur Smith: PR9405.9 .S5 The Seventh Scroll, Wild Justice, A Sparrow Falls Hammond Innes: PR6027 .N79: Harvest of Journeys, The Wreck of Mary Deare James Clavell: PS3553 .L36: Shogun, Noble House Gary Jennings: PS3560 .E51: The Journeyer, Raptor, Aztec Dan Brown: PS3552 .R685: The DaVinci Code, Lost Symbol, Digital Fortress
Technothrillers Tom Clancy: PS3553 .L24: Red Rabbit, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of All Fears Stephen Coonts: PS3553 .O57: The Minotaur Craig Thomas: PR6070 .H56: A Wild Justice
Medical Thrillers Robin Cook: PS3553 .O5545: Acceptable Risk, Vital Signs, Harmful Intent Patricia Cornwell: PS3553 .O692 Blow Fly, Trace, The Body Farm Michael Crichton: PS3553 .R48: Prey, Congo, Andromeda Strain
Financial/Political Thriller Paul Erdman: PS3555 .R4: The Last Days of America, The Crash of ’79, The Billion Dollar Sure Thing Jack Higgins: PR6058 .I343: Angel of Death, Sheba, Eye of the Storm
True Adventure Stories Arabian Sands, Wilfred Thesiger DS208 .T48 Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog DS485 .H6 H434 West with the Nigh, Beryl Markham DT365.75 .M3 M3 Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer GV199.44 .E85 K725 The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen QH193 .H5 M37 Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer DS785 .H273 Seven Pillars of Wisdon, T. E. Lawrence D568.4 .L4 Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Francis Chichester G420 .C47 A3 Royal Road to Romance, Richard Halliburton G463 .H25 Alive, Piers Paul Read TL553.9 .R4 Adventures of Captain Booneville, Washington Irving F592 .I73 We Die Alone, by David Armine Howarth D811 .H74
For more Adventure novels, check out the collection at your closest public library.
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