Editors Reads

Best Adventure Books

123 expert-reviewed books — page 6 of 6

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The Coral Island

by R. M. Ballantyne

3.7

R. M. Ballantyne's classic Victorian adventure. Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, three British boys — Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin — build an idyllic life in paradise, facing sharks, pirates, and cannibals. The hugely influential book that inspired Golding's Lord of the Flies.

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The Mystery of the Sea book cover
3.7

On the rugged Scottish coast near Cruden Bay, Archibald Hunter is drawn into a web of mystery involving second sight, hidden treasure connected to the Spanish Armada, and dangerous conspirators — as well as a romance with the spirited American Marjory Drake.

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The Lady of the Shroud book cover
3.6

Rupert Sent Leger inherits a fortune and travels to a Balkan land called the Land of the Blue Mountains, where he encounters a mysterious woman in a shroud who may be a vampire — or a princess in disguise. Gothic horror merges with Ruritanian adventure in Stoker's politically ambitious late novel.

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