40 Best Adventure Books
Goal: Find the best Adventure books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best adventure books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
40 Best Adventure Books
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Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Also recommended by:
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Also recommended by:
Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, Penn Jillette, Jack Edwards, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, PewDiePie
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Also recommended by:
Emma Watson, Tim Ferriss, Oprah Winfrey, Liz Lambert, Shane Parrish
A Cook's Tour
Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
by Anthony Bourdain
Also recommended by:
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Also recommended by:
Travels with Charley
In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
Also recommended by:
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Also recommended by:
A Voyage for Madmen
by Peter Nichols
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson
Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
Also recommended by:
Ray Dalio, Sam Altman, Bryan Johnson, Ryan Holiday, Jason Fried, Dominic D'Agostino, Jordan Peterson, Fred Wilson, Scott Belsky, Max Levchin
The Martian
A Novel
by Andy Weir
Also recommended by:
Noah Kagan, Chris Sacca, Ev Williams, Matt Ridley, Max Levchin, Christopher Paolini, Tom Hanks
The Odyssey
by Homer
Also recommended by:
Tim O’Reilly, Walter Isaacson, Michael Pollan, Jay-Z, Stewart Brand, Caterina Fake
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Also recommended by:
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Winston Churchill
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Also recommended by:
Richard Branson, Daniel Pink, Ernest Hemingway, Walter Isaacson
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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Wind, Sand and Stars
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings, Book 1
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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A Sense of Direction
Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Alone on the Ice
The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
by David Roberts
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
Into the Heart of Borneo
by Redmond O'Hanlon
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
Pass the Butterworms
Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered
by Tim Cahill
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
The Motorcycle Diaries
Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Sea Runners
by Ivan Doig
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
by Susan Casey
Travels In Siberia
by Ian Frazier
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