Genre :: Adventure (41 books)

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  #86

  The Old Man and the Sea

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (25 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

  

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  #87

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  (17 Reviews)

  214 Points

  "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. . . . from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess IrulanIn the week before their departure to Arakis, when all..."

  

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  #88

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  (10 Reviews)

  211 Points

  

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  #92

  The Call of the Wild

  by Jack London

  (20 Reviews)

  203 Points

  "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound..."

  

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  #107

  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (15 Reviews)

  180 Points

  "On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

  

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  #112

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  173 Points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #161

  Kim

  by Rudyard Kipling

  (6 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

  

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  #164

  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  120 Points

  "I am an American, Chicago born–Chicago, that somber city–and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; and sometimes..."

  

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  #193

  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  (17 Reviews)

  100 Points

  "My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

  

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  #253

  The Blue Lotus

  by Hergé

  (4 Reviews)

  83 Points

  

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