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- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Suzanne Collins | 5.00. WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE. LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH. THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN. . . .
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Suzanne Collins | 4.76. SPARKS ARE IGNITING. FLAMES ARE SPREADING. AND THE CAPITAL WANTS REVENGE. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games.
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Suzanne Collins | 4.64. My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed.
- The Hobbit. J. R. R. Tolkien | 4.63. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar.
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- Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
- The Call of The Wild, by Jack London
- Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini
- The Mark of Zorro, by Johnston Mcculley
- Conan The Conqueror, by Robert E. Howard
- Congo, by Michael Crichton
- Le Morte D’Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory
Everything begins here. Among the first real examples of a historical novelin Western literature, Ivanhoe is placed from the 12th century. It concentrates on one of the few Saxon noble households intact following the Norman Conquest. Wilfred of Ivanhoe supports King Richard and can be disinherited because of his trouble, linking the king to the cru...
Sea monsters and also the very first steampunk submarine: it will not get more adventurous than that. Verne’s classic work of experience and sci-fi is not precisely scientifically rigorous. At one stage, Captain Nemoleaves his submarine and strolls about to the sea’s ground without difficulty. But its spirit of discovery, even as Nemo and companion...
Every child (and everybody who’s ever been a child) ought to read Treasure Island at least once, as each child should spend a minimum of one summer pretending for a pirate searching for treasure. At some stage in each lifetime, folks dream of experiencing discovering them and forcing them into the world like the Old Buccaneer comes to Jim Hawkins, ...
Kipling’s story of an orphaned Irish boy who grows up more or less a native in British India has affected generations of storytellers. Kim finds the Great Gameof espionage and critical politics at India’s warmth before being recognized as English and sent back to England, where he is schooled and educated in spycraft. Nobody combines philosophical ...
Buck is a puppy, kidnapped from his house, and forced into captivity for a sled dog. Since Buck gradually loses his culture (that is, his domestication) and becomes mad and feral, he’s got a collection of dreadful experiences in their constant cruelty. However, his final destiny for a member of a wild pack of wolves is not a catastrophe. London’s s...
Based very closely on real historical events, this story of a doctor sentenced to slavery in the Caribbean of the 17th century to escape and eventually become among the most prosperous pirates of this time is a timeless party of man’s capacity to create his destiny, regardless of the obstacles. While Sabatini took the story further than the truth, ...
McCulley’s Mexican nobleman who dons a mask and a racing character to resist injustice and tyranny has had a profound effect on fiction because of his first appearance in the early 20th century. As Don Diego de la Vega, the personality feigned disinterest in swordplay, love, or experience, but that is in the service of protecting his secret identit...
The sole novel length Conan narrative Howard printed was initially titled The Hour of the Dragon and starts with a middle aged Conandefeated in the battle and imprisoned in a dungeon full of monstrous threats. His defeat procured via shadowy magic, Conanmust seek out unlikely allies and struggle (and fight and struggle) his way back to his people t...
This is one of the best fiction adventure books. Although called science fiction, Crichton himself name checked King Solomon’s Minesas inspiration for this particular story. A lost city in the jungle of Africa, a legendary diamond mine, along with a previously unknown breed of gorilla caused by historical experiments, all come together to struggle ...
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Tableare cultural icons. That means they are often treated as ethnic artwork, always there but perhaps not interesting. This book, the first compilation, and rewriting of the present tales will remind you that in their center that these are adventure stories that there are kingdoms to be carved from the floo...
- Escape from Baghdad by Saad Z. Hossain. “Two down on their luck black-marketeers, Dagr and Kinza, have inherited a very important prisoner: the former star torturer of Saddam’s recently collapsed Ba’athist regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him to Mosul.
- The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black. “Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists.
- The Liminal War by Ayize Jama-Everett. “When Taggert’s adopted daughter goes missing he suspects the hand of an old enemy. He gathers friends, family, and even those who don’t quite trust that he has left his violent past behind.
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. “In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS.
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Suzanne Collins | 5.00. WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE. LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH. THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN. . . .
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Suzanne Collins | 4.76. SPARKS ARE IGNITING. FLAMES ARE SPREADING. AND THE CAPITAL WANTS REVENGE. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games.
- Divergent (Divergent, #1) Veronica Roth | 4.67. In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent).
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Suzanne Collins | 4.65. My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed.
