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Book List: Adventure
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These are some great choices if you're in the mood for action-packed, fast-paced tales of adventure, survival, and heroes on a mission.

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Fiction

Zorro by Isabel Allende

Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch

Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event: a Covert-One Novel by James H. Cobb

Thieves Like Us by Stephen Cole

Airman by Eoin Colfer

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Congo and others by Michael Crichton

Corsair and others by Clive Cussler

Deliverance by James Dickey

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Ranger's Apprentice Series & Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan

Sure Fire by Jack Higgins

SilverFin by Charlie Higson

Stormbreaker and the rest of the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz

Freaks: Alive, On the Inside!  by Annette Curtis Klause

The Bourne Identity and sequels by Robert Ludlum

Tomorrow, When the War Began and sequels by John Marsden

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe

Operation Red Jericho and Operation Storm City by Joshua Mowll

Trapped by Michael Northrop

Airborn , Skybreaker, and Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel 

Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst

Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Riptide and The Codex by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Subterranean and others by James Rollins

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Peak by Roland Smith

Legacy by Tom E. Sniegoski

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Leviathan and sequels by Scott Westerfeld

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey

Nonfiction

Quest for Adventure: Ultimate Feats of Modern Exploration by Chris Bonington

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition by Joshua Pevin and David Borgenicht

Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand

Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Escape from Davao: the Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War by John D. Lukacs (940.54 LUK)

Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad

Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston

Alive by Piers Paul Reed

In Harms Way by Doug Stanton

Lost in Shangri-La: a True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of WWII by Mitchel Zuckoff

 

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