📚 Adventure

Travel, danger, and a protagonist who keeps moving: the genre that invented most of what film now reuses.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject adventure stories in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	1893	537
	Ayesha	H. Rider Haggard	1900	463
	White Fang	Jack London	1905	387
	The Enchanted Island of Yew	L. Frank Baum	1903	288
	Tarzan of the Apes	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1912	226
	The After House	Mary Roberts Rinehart	1914	203
	When the World Shook	H. Rider Haggard	1919	181
	New treasure seekers	Edith Nesbit	1904	156
	Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator	Roald Dahl	1972	126
	Robur le conquérant	Jules Verne	1886	113
	The Eight Strokes of the Clock	Maurice Leblanc	1922	109
	The Son of the Wolf	Jack London	1900	87
	L'Île mystérieuse	Jules Verne	1870	84
	Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Michell Ransome	1930	84
	Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)	Ayn Rand	1936	84
	Les confidences d'Arsène Lupin	Maurice Leblanc	1913	78
	The Complete Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	1895	71
	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon	Stephen King	1999	71
	The Son of Tarzan	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1915	59
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories	Ernest Hemingway	1927	59
	Five Go Adventuring Again	Enid Blyton	1943	53
	Congo	Michael Crichton	1980	49
	The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2)	Robert Jordan	1990	48
	Five Go to Smuggler's Top	Enid Blyton	1945	47
	Treasure	Clive Cussler	1988	45
	Raise the Titanic!	Clive Cussler	1976	44
	The Hidden Staircase	Leslie McFarlane	1930	43
	Pebble in the Sky	Isaac Asimov	1950	42
	The Secret of the Old Clock	Leslie McFarlane	1930	41
	La guerre des femmes	Alexandre Dumas	1830	36

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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