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40 Best Adventure Books

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

Method:

  1. Search for "best adventure books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

40 Best Adventure Books

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1

Into Thin Air

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

Also recommended by:

Richard Branson, James Clear

2

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

3

Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

4

A Cook's Tour

Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

by Anthony Bourdain

Also recommended by:

Shauna Niequist

5

In the Heart of the Sea

The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick

Also recommended by:

Richard Branson

6

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

Also recommended by:

Gretchen Rubin

7

Travels with Charley

In Search of America

by John Steinbeck

8

A Walk in the Woods

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson

Also recommended by:

Tim Ferriss

9

A Voyage for Madmen

by Peter Nichols

10

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

11

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

12

Touching the Void

by Joe Simpson

13

Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

14

The Martian

A Novel

by Andy Weir

15

The Odyssey

by Homer

16

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

17

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

18

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

19

The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe

20

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

21

Wind, Sand and Stars

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

22

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings, Book 1

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Also recommended by:

Richard Branson, Jon Favreau

23

Desert Solitaire

A Season in the Wilderness

by Edward Abbey

Also recommended by:

Maria Popova

24

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

Also recommended by:

Michelle Obama

25

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Also recommended by:

Richard Branson

26

A Sense of Direction

Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

27

Alone on the Ice

The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

by David Roberts

28

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

29

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

30

In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

31

Into the Heart of Borneo

by Redmond O'Hanlon

32

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

33

Pass the Butterworms

Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered

by Tim Cahill

34

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

35

Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

36

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

37

The Motorcycle Diaries

Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ernesto Che Guevara

38

The Sea Runners

by Ivan Doig

39

The Wave

In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

by Susan Casey

40

Travels In Siberia

by Ian Frazier

Sources

Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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