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Adventure
32 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Alexandre Dumas: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Alexandre Dumas — whether to begin with The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers. A complete reading guide to the French adventure novelist.
Where to Start with Baroness Orczy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Baroness Orczy — how to approach The Scarlet Pimpernel, her essential adventure novel that invented the secret-identity hero. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Beryl Markham: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Beryl Markham — how to approach West with the Night, her essential memoir of Africa and aviation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Christopher McDougall: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Christopher McDougall — how to approach Born to Run, his essential book about the Tarahumara runners and human endurance. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Cornelia Funke: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Cornelia Funke — how to approach Inkheart, her essential fantasy novel about the dangerous magic of books. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Daniel Defoe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Defoe — how to approach Robinson Crusoe, his essential novel and the founding text of English prose fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Erin Hunter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Erin Hunter — whether to begin with Warriors Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, or Forest of Secrets. A complete guide to the Warriors cat series.
Where to Start with Ewan McGregor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ewan McGregor — how to approach Long Way Round, the adventure travel memoir he wrote with Charley Boorman about their 31,000-mile motorcycle journey eastward from London to New York through Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Heinrich Harrer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heinrich Harrer — how to approach Seven Years in Tibet, his extraordinary account of escaping a wartime POW camp and reaching Lhasa to become the Dalai Lama's tutor. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Herman Melville: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Herman Melville — whether to begin with Moby-Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener, or Billy Budd. A complete reading guide to the American classic author.
Where to Start with Jack London: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jack London — whether to begin with The Call of the Wild, White Fang, or The Sea-Wolf. A complete reading guide to the American adventure novelist.
Where to Start with Jules Verne: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jules Verne — whether to begin with Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues, or Journey to the Center of the Earth. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Noah Gordon: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Noah Gordon — how to approach The Physician, his sweeping medieval epic following an English orphan's extraordinary journey to study medicine under Avicenna in Persia. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Robert Louis Stevenson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Robert Louis Stevenson — whether to begin with Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde, or Kidnapped. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rudyard Kipling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rudyard Kipling — how to approach The Jungle Book, his Victorian classic of jungle adventure and belonging that is far richer than its Disney adaptations suggest. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Adventure and Survival: Essential Outdoor and Wilderness Reading
The best books about adventure and survival — from Into the Wild and Into Thin Air to Life of Pi and Wild. Essential outdoor and wilderness reading.
Best Books Set at Sea: Essential Maritime Fiction and Nonfiction
The best books set at sea — from Moby-Dick and Life of Pi to The Old Man and the Sea and The Perfect Storm. Essential maritime fiction and nonfiction.
Best Travel Writing Books: Essential Adventures and Journeys
The best travel writing books — from Into the Wild and In Patagonia to A Walk in the Woods and The Snow Leopard. Essential travel memoirs and adventure writing.
Where to Start with Dan Brown: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dan Brown — whether to begin with Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, or The Lost Symbol. A complete reading guide to the Robert Langdon series.
Where to Start with David Grann: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Grann — whether to begin with Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, or The Wager. A complete reading guide to the narrative non-fiction writer.
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