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40 Best Adventure Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Adventure books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best adventure books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. 2
    Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

  2. 3
    Wild
  3. 4
    Into the Wild

    Into the Wild

    Jon Krakauer

  4. 5
    In the Heart of the Sea
  5. 6
    A Cook's Tour
  6. 7
    Travels with Charley
  7. 9
    Touching the Void
  8. 10
    A Voyage for Madmen

    A Voyage for Madmen

    Peter Nichols

  9. 11
    The Worst Journey in the World

    The Worst Journey in the World

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  10. 12
    Around the World in Eighty Days
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    Endurance
  12. 14
    The Martian
  13. 15
    The Odyssey
  14. 16
    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift

  15. 17
    Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding

  16. 18
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  17. 19
    The Right Stuff
  18. 20
    Walden

    Walden

    Henry David Thoreau

  19. 21
    Wind, Sand and Stars

    Wind, Sand and Stars

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  20. 22
    The Hobbit
  21. 23
    Life of Pi

    Life of Pi

    Yann Martel

  22. 24
    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  23. 25
    Desert Solitaire
  24. 26
    Hatchet

    Hatchet

    Gary Paulsen

  25. 27
    The Call of the Wild
  26. 28
    In a Sunburned Country
  27. 29
    Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe

  28. 31
    Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

  29. 34
    Travels In Siberia
  30. 35
    The Sea Runners
  31. 36
    Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson

    Johann David Wyss

  32. 38
    Into the Heart of Borneo

    Into the Heart of Borneo

    Redmond O'Hanlon

  33. 40
    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    H. Rider Haggard

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