The Essential Man's Library: 50 Fictional Adventure Books

Given by Art of Manliness

50 Works 700,909 Books 9,702 Reviews ½ 3.9
This is a list compiled in 2009 by the website artofmanliness.com of the fifty best adventure books of all time.
Year Awarded:
2009
Work
Peter Pan (1934) by J. M. Barrie
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
Tarzan of the Apes (1914) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
Congo (1980) by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton
The Lost World (1995) by Michael Crichton
Inca Gold (1994) by Clive Cussler
Sahara (1992) by Clive Cussler
Treasure (1988) by Clive Cussler
Robinson Crusoe (1994) by Daniel Defoe
The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
The Beach (1996) by Alex Garland
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
King Solomon's Mines (1882) by H. Rider Haggard
She (1886) by H. Rider Haggard
Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) by H. Rider Haggard
The People of the Mist (1894) by H. Rider Haggard
True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir (1970) by Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey (750 BCE) by Homer
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope
Captains Courageous (1896) by Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King (1888) by Rudyard Kipling
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
The Sea Wolf (1904) by Jack London
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) by Thomas Malory
Moby Dick (2014) by Herman Melville
Hatchet (1987) by Gary Paulsen
Captain Blood (1922) by Rafael Sabatini
Southern Mail / Night Flight (1933) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Pirates of Malaysia (1896) by Emilio Salgari
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem (1884) by Emilio Salgari
The Two Tigers (1904) by Emilio Salgari
Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Roughing It (1872) by Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866) by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne
The Children of Captain Grant (1865) by Jules Verne
El faro del fin del mundo (1905) by Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island (1874) by Jules Verne
The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) by Johann David Wyss

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