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Best Adventure Stories

Rank Title Author Added

1

Around the World in Eighty Days

17,171 members

265 reviews

3.8

7 Members: longway, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, ahef1963, Friederike.Geissler, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,246 members

434 reviews

3.8

6 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,586 members

453 reviews

4.1

5 Members: lahochstetler, thecoroner, Dilara86, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

33,046 members

328 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

25,599 members

293 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,Friederike.Geissler

6

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

21,393 members

251 reviews

4.1

4 Members: longway, aulsmith, thecoroner, Dilara86

7

by Percival Christopher Wren

1,002 members

26 reviews

3.9

3 Members: longway, KimarieBee, aulsmith

8

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

4,900 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: longway, aulsmith, thecoroner, dsp501

9

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

43,138 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Bretzky1, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,309 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, dsp501, ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

11

James and the Giant Peach

19,800 members

363 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,760 members

1,191 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,Friederike.Geissler

13

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,264 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: lahochstetler, thecoroner, Bretzky1

14

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

36,295 members

742 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,077 members

424 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

16,029 members

376 reviews

4

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

by Michael Rosen

7,580 members

136 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963

18

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

18,499 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: longway, thecoroner, ahef1963

19

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,799 members

90 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Dilara86, dsp501, ManWithAnAgenda

20

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

5,736 members

128 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: longway, thecoroner, ahef1963

21

53,279 members

475 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

22

21,987 members

564 reviews

4

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

23,650 members

408 reviews

4

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

24,955 members

354 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,534 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Time Machine

17,749 members

339 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4,824 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: longway, aulsmith

28

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,255 members

202 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963

29

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,804 members

507 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, dsp501

30

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,975 members

384 reviews

4

2 Members: Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope

2,625 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: longway, aulsmith

32

The Chronicles of Narnia

35,947 members

322 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

33

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,891 members

83 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Dilara86, cej1027

34

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,131 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963

35

The Call of the Wild

20,217 members

321 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Jon Krakauer

18,021 members

445 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Man Who Would Be King

by Rudyard Kipling

837 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, Bretzky1

38

22,986 members

198 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

39

4,398 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

40

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

2,907 members

41 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

41

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

1,614 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thecoroner

42

by Herman Melville

35,546 members

545 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

43

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

by Alexandre Dumas

1,651 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

44

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

2,917 members

141 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aulsmith

45

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

14,922 members

229 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

46

by Alberto Manzi

51 members

2 reviews

4

Member: longway

47

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

11,620 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

48

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

5,754 members

72 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

by James Fenimore Cooper

2,833 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

50

Lassie Come Home

2,221 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

24,929 members

532 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

52

The Neverending Story

by Michael Ende

12,137 members

228 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

53

43,705 members

1,012 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

by James Fenimore Cooper

1,212 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Bretzky1

55

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

8,832 members

192 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith

56

The Mysterious Island

4,777 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

57

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

by Rudolf Erich Raspe

1,170 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

58

Kim [Norton Critical Edition]

by Rudyard Kipling

143 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

59

12,155 members

128 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

5,121 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

61

by Rafael Sabatini

1,751 members

55 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

62

by Rafael Sabatini

1,691 members

57 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

63

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,825 members

117 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda,Bretzky1

64

by Sir Walter Scott

13,072 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner,Bretzky1

65

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,655 members

389 reviews

½ 3.6

66

15,001 members

146 reviews

3.8

67

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy

10,799 members

253 reviews

4

68

by Michael Crichton

9,851 members

120 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963,

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Started: sturlington
February 2012
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