41 Best Adventure Books of All Time

Our goal: Gather the most accurate and trustworthy list of Adventure books on the internet.

Our process:
1. Search for "best Adventure books" and click on the top 5 articles.
2. Find every book mentioned in 2+ articles and average their rankings.
3. Deliver them all neatly to you here! 😊

(Updated 2022)

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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Appears in 5 articles
1 recommender
2
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Wild
Cheryl Strayed
Appears in 4 articles
5 recommenders
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Appears in 4 articles
1 recommender
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Appears in 4 articles
5 recommenders
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A Cook's Tour
Anthony Bourdain
Appears in 4 articles
1 recommender
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In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick
Appears in 4 articles
1 recommender
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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Appears in 3 articles
1 recommender
8
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Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Appears in 3 articles
3 recommenders
9
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Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
Appears in 3 articles
10
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A Voyage for Madmen
Peter Nichols
Appears in 3 articles
11
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Appears in 3 articles
12
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The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Appears in 3 articles
13
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The Martian
Andy Weir
Appears in 2 articles
7 recommenders
14
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The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Appears in 2 articles
15
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Appears in 2 articles
3 recommenders
16
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Appears in 2 articles
17
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Appears in 2 articles
1 recommender
18
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Appears in 2 articles
19
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Appears in 2 articles
1 recommender
20
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The Odyssey
Homer
Appears in 2 articles
6 recommenders
21
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In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
Appears in 2 articles
22
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Appears in 2 articles
4 recommenders
23
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Appears in 2 articles
3 recommenders
24
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Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
Appears in 2 articles
1 recommender
25
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Ernesto Che Guevara
Appears in 2 articles
26
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Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Appears in 2 articles
27
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Appears in 2 articles
28
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Appears in 2 articles
5 recommenders
29
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Appears in 2 articles
3 recommenders
30
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Alone on the Ice
David Roberts
Appears in 2 articles
31
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The Wave
Susan Casey
Appears in 2 articles
32
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Appears in 2 articles
3 recommenders
33
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Travels In Siberia
Ian Frazier
Appears in 2 articles
34
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Pass the Butterworms
Tim Cahill
Appears in 2 articles
35
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The Sea Runners
Ivan Doig
Appears in 2 articles
36
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Into the Heart of Borneo
Redmond O'Hanlon
Appears in 2 articles
37
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A Sense of Direction
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Appears in 2 articles
38
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The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
Appears in 2 articles
2 recommenders
39
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Appears in 2 articles
40
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King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
Appears in 2 articles
MOST RECOMMENDED!
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Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Appears in 2 articles
10 recommenders