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Choose Your Own Adventure Books in Order

Explore the Choose Your Own Adventure books in order, with summaries of the mysteries, journeys, and survival stories where readers choose what happens next.

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Grave Robbers

by Various

1990

You join Edward, the son of the Navajo tribal police chief, to investigate stolen ancestral artifacts. Your decisions guide the search for thieves responsible for looting archaeological sites and damaging sacred ruins in this interactive mystery.

Hijacked!

by Various

1990

Terrorists seize your school bus and take the students prisoner on a remote island. You decide when to cooperate, whom to trust, and whether to attempt escape as an ordinary journey becomes a dangerous struggle for freedom.

Master of Karate

by Various

1990

A karate competition brings you to Japan, where mysterious figures in medieval armor attack the participants. Your decisions guide an adventure involving the tournament's corporate sponsor and a scheme to manipulate audiences through subliminal advertising.

Master of Tae Kwon Do

by Various

1990

The CIA sends you to Korea disguised as a tae kwon do student. Your mission is to locate Ling, the friend who taught you kung fu, and confront the enemy agents who have brainwashed her.

A Russian exchange visit takes a supernatural turn when a seance contacts Rasputin's spirit. Thrown back to the turbulent period before his murder, you must decide how to navigate a past filled with intrigue and danger.

The Cobra Connection

by Various

1990

Exploring San Francisco during a visit with your uncle's business partner, you are kidnapped by a man claiming to be a government agent. He asks for help, but his unsettling behavior makes trust a dangerous decision.

Spending summer on Orcas Island, you find an old letter offering clues to a sunken treasure ship. Your choices guide the search for the Onyx Dragon and its legendary emerald, the Star of Asia.

Sent to work on your uncle's pig farm after a disastrous rocket experiment, you begin the journey on a bus that breaks down. Storm clouds gather as you decide whether to wait or walk the remaining miles.

You Are A Millionaire

by Various

1990

A baseball game leads you to a battered briefcase packed with hundred-dollar bills. Suddenly wealthy, you choose how to use the money while facing the possibility that others will try to take your unexpected fortune.

Daredevil Park

by Various

1991

Winning a contest gives you the chance to test a new amusement park's rides before opening day. Another winner wants to sneak inside early, leaving you to choose between an escorted tour and an unauthorized exploration.

Ghost Train

by Various

1991

At a British Columbia farm, sabotaged orchards and a train whistle from long-unused tracks draw you into a mystery. You choose whether to follow an elderly woman into the orchards or investigate the supposedly abandoned railway.

Invaders from Within

by Various

1991

A mountain hike turns strange when daylight gives way to a nighttime encounter with extraterrestrial creatures. Your choices guide an adventure involving a glowing dome on the mountaintop and the mystery of where it came from.

Kidnapped!

by Various

1991

A visit to your wealthy friend Jason's mansion becomes dangerous when an armed stranger approaches and a security guard is wounded. You decide whether to run immediately or wait for another chance to evade the kidnappers.

Lost Ninja

by Various

1991

After ninja training in Japan, you move to San Francisco and recognize old enemies among the city's gangsters. Reports of stolen antiques following your travel route raise fears that you could be blamed for the thefts.

Skateboard Champion

by Various

1991

A steadily improving skateboarder, you have the chance to learn from the leader of your school's skateboarding group. Your choices determine whether and how you develop your talent in this interactive story about pursuing the sport.

Smoke Jumpers

by Various

1991

Training to fight wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, you receive an emergency call before your preparation is complete. You decide whether to keep training or join the response, facing difficult choices amid the mountain fires.

Searching Istanbul for Aladdin's legendary lamp, you discover a secret stairwell that offers a possible lead. Your decisions guide the search through a city where an ancient tale may hold the promise of extraordinary discoveries.

The Terrorist Trap

by Various

1991

Your reporter brother Kyle leaves a note asking you to call the police if he has not returned by six. The deadline passes, and you must decide how to respond to his disappearance while investigating a promising story.

Vampire Invaders

by Various

1991

Invited to a conference examining reports of vampires from outer space, you are asked to help track down the invaders. Your choices guide the investigation as authorities confront a threat that combines extraterrestrial danger with vampirism.

Behind The Wheel

by Various

1992

A Swiss auto race becomes more dangerous when a gambling syndicate tries to control the result. Behind the wheel, you must decide how to respond to bribery and suspicious offers of help during the competition.

Earthquake!

by Various

1992

A visit to San Francisco becomes a survival emergency when a major earthquake strikes. With an elderly man trapped under rubble and your friend possibly in danger elsewhere, your decisions determine whom you help and how you escape.

Magic Master

by Various

1992

Hoping to discover a famous magician's secrets, you visit his new house and find it apparently empty. Choosing whether and how to explore draws you into an adventure where learning about his powers depends on your decisions.

Your friend Billy disappears while you are traveling together to develop your martial arts skills. Searching Bangkok brings you face to face with Thai fighters and a mysterious woman, leaving you to choose between confrontation and possible help.

Outlaw Gulch

by Various

1992

In 1892, your boarding-school roommate, the Crown Prince of Aggar, vanishes with clues pointing west. You must choose which leads to pursue through frontier towns, mines, and outlaw territory as you try to find him.

Showdown

by Various

1992

While competing at the Sudbury Horse Classic, you overhear a plan to kill a valuable insured horse. Your choices determine whether to seek help or intervene yourself, balancing the competition against an urgent threat to the animal.

Silver Wings

by Various

1992

A trip to the Baja Peninsula tests the flying skills you have spent a year developing. A downed plane, suspicious strangers, and a tampered radio demand choices that may help your friends or put everyone in further danger.

Superbike

by Various

1992

A neighboring scientist asks you to test a racing bicycle capable of extraordinary speeds. Deciding whether to keep it secret or pursue racing success brings risks from bullies and thieves who want the invention for themselves.

Surf Monkeys

by Various

1992

While surfing during a California visit, you discover your friend Jorge has disappeared. A conflict between an oil company and environmentalists draws you toward a surf gang, dangerous waters, and questions about the consequences of offshore drilling.

Viking Raiders

by Various

1992

As a young Viking living on Norway's coast, you learn that raiders are approaching your village. You must decide whether to flee, hide, or risk capture, with each choice shaping your chances of surviving their attack.

You are Microscopic

by Various

1992

A scientist's microsphere shrinks your friends to a fraction of a millimeter, then malfunctions before they can return. Your choices guide a rescue attempt into a miniature world where ordinary insects and objects become dangerous obstacles.

Dinosaur Island

by Various

1993

A plane crash strands you on an island inhabited by genetically engineered dinosaurs. Discovering scientist Lebeau's secret experiments forces you to choose between escaping by speedboat and risking your life to learn what he plans.

Horror House

by Various

1993

Your aunt and cousins move into a Victorian house filled with disturbing noises and mysterious sightings. Investigating a figure in the basement forces you to decide whether to pursue it alone or seek help before further danger strikes.

Motorcross Mania

by Various

1993

During your first major motocross race, the rider ahead crashes and may be seriously injured. You must choose whether to stop and help or continue racing, weighing your chance of victory against another rider's safety.

Playoff Champion

by Various

1993

Your school baseball team reaches the national tournament finals just as its coach is hospitalized. Taking over as manager, you must choose tactics under pressure, deciding when to risk bold plays and when to protect your team's chances.

Project UFO

by Various

1993

Your lifelong telepathic friendship with extraterrestrial Freedo attracts scientists asking suspicious questions. Choosing whether to reveal the connection or work with competing organizations leads into an adventure involving space travel, robots, and threats to your alien friend.

Roller Star

by Various

1993

Discovering inline skating gives you a new ambition: becoming a top skater. Your choices guide the challenge, testing the speed, strength, and judgment needed to turn enthusiasm for the sport into success as a roller star.

Scene of the Crime

by Various

1993

Plans for a shopping mall excite your quiet hometown until you overhear a conversation suggesting a conspiracy. With approval imminent, you must choose whether to approach police or challenge the council and persuade adults to listen.

As a summer intern at a Hawaiian dolphin institute, you join a search for a legendary underwater city. Suspicious boaters demand details, forcing choices about trust while protecting the expedition and the treasures it hopes to discover.

The Forgotten Planet

by Various

1993

Working at a galactic communications network in 2145, you uncover evidence of a space probe that vanished forty years earlier. The company's denial raises questions about a cover-up, leaving you to choose between reporting it and investigating alone.

Winning a seemingly impossible carnival game earns you a choice between a mysterious crystal and a book about luck. The prize promises to change your life, but your decisions determine whether unusual good fortune becomes opportunity or danger.

The Reality Machine

by Various

1993

Your skill at arcade virtual reality earns you a summer job testing Dr. Telos's new games. Choosing between adventures through time and space leads toward experiences where the boundary between the simulation and reality becomes dangerously uncertain.

Traveling through time and space takes you into a wooded landscape and an encounter with a giant green man. His command to cut off his head seems like a test, but you must decide how to respond.

Comet Crash

by Various

1994

While working as an observatory intern, you learn that a comet is heading toward Earth. Your choices determine how to protect your family, balancing the risks of escape against the possibility that scientists can avert the collision.

Cyberspace Warrior

by Various

1994

Your inventor uncle leaves you a futuristic video game that draws you into an electronic world. Strange landscapes, snail people, and a metallic monster turn play into a dangerous adventure whose course depends on your choices.

Everest Adventure!

by Various

1994

Chosen for an Everest expedition, you face threats before reaching the mountain. An armed attacker confronts you during a Beijing stopover, forcing a decision that could determine whether you survive the sabotage and continue your climb.

Gunfire at Gettysburg

by Various

1994

Caught near Gettysburg as battle erupts, you encounter a Confederate officer who wants your knowledge of local terrain. You must choose between meeting General Lee and escaping to check on your family while the fighting threatens your town.

Last Run

by Various

1994

As an international ski racer, you travel to the Italian Dolomites to investigate your uncle's murder. Dangerous encounters on the slopes and a mysterious avalanche pull you into intrigue, with your decisions shaping both the investigation and your survival.

Master of Judo

by Various

1994

A summer job teaching judo to a billionaire's stepson promises a Caribbean yacht adventure until your student is kidnapped. You must decide which shipmates to trust and how to use your skills to bring him back.

Ninja Cyborg

by Various

1994

A cyborg ninja arrives from the future and invades your dojo in search of sacred scrolls. Your decisions guide the defense against an enemy combining martial arts with advanced machinery, testing whether your training can stop him.

Search the Amazon!

by Various

1994

You join your biologist grandfather to investigate disappearing pink dolphins in the Amazon. When people determined to keep the mystery unsolved kidnap him, your choices guide a rescue that puts both the investigation and your family at risk.

Soccer Star

by Various

1994

Joining one of the country's leading soccer schools gives you a chance to become a standout player. Decisions on the field and encounters with a hostile bully test whether you can help your team win its important game.

Testing Dr. Eisenbaum's universal transmuter takes you through a portal into an antimatter universe. When the experiment goes wrong, you must make choices that could lead home or leave you trapped beyond the world you know.

Exploring the Everglades brings you under attack by creatures combining spiders and ants. Trapped between their enormous webs, you must choose whether to break through or venture into murky swamp water that may conceal further dangers.

Who Are You?

by Various

1994

You awaken in a ditch with no memory or identification and begin searching for your identity. A runaway and other strangers offer possible answers, but choosing whom to trust may determine whether you recover your past safely.

Fright Night

by Various

1995

You attend the opening of Daredevil Park's newest frightening attractions, expecting entertainment rather than real peril. Discovering that the dangers are deadly forces choices about how to proceed, with your decisions determining whether the visit can be survived.

Master of Aikido

by Various

1995

Freedom fighters hijack your flight and force it down in East Timor, leaving you surrounded by armed captors and dangerous jungle. Your choices guide the response as you confront both immediate threats and the reasons behind their actions.

Possessed!

by Various

1995

Two sinister spirits connected to your past lives invade your body and mind, revealing a centuries-old family curse. Your choices guide a struggle to break their spell, including whether to seek answers among a hall of haunted heads.

In Vienna in 1938, Nazi mobs fill the streets and safety lies beyond the border. Taking part in resistance efforts, you must choose how to help people escape while facing dangers that threaten both them and you.

Sky-Jam!

by Various

1995

Your basketball team trails a rival school with college scouts watching and the ball in your hands. Choosing between a safer shot and an ambitious slam dunk tests whether you can balance personal recognition with the team's need to win.

Snowboard Racer

by Various

1995

Earning a place on a snowboard racing team should be a triumph, but someone plots to get you removed. Investigating between races leads to a dangerous challenge at a cliff, where you must weigh proof against risking your life.

Tattoo of Death

by Various

1995

Two boys from your martial arts class draw you into the Red Flowers, a dangerous Los Angeles gang. Your choices determine how you respond to blackmail, a mysterious delivery, and the smugglers threatening your freedom.

The Computer Takeover

by Various

1995

A renegade supercomputer has decided to take control, and your skills as a computer genius may be the only way to stop it. You choose how to investigate its secret activities and challenge its growing power.

Typhoon!

by Various

1995

As navigator aboard a research ship in the South Pacific, you must steer away from an approaching typhoon. Your decisions shape the crew's chances of reaching shelter, surviving the storm, or facing further dangers at sea.

U.N. Adventure

by Various

1995

Your involvement in Model United Nations leads to an opportunity to join real international missions. You choose between diplomatic crises, refugee aid, and research expeditions, where political decisions and unfamiliar environments can put you in danger.

You Are an Alien

by Various

1995

You discover that you are an alien spy sent to observe life on Earth. Your choices guide an adventure that forces you to consider whether to stay among humans or return to your own world.

Death in the Dorm

by Various

1996

At a private prep school, you discover your roommate's body and doubt that the death was suicide. You decide how to investigate the disturbing mystery, with each choice opening another route through the story.

Greed, Guns, and Gold

by Various

1996

You acquire clues to the location of the missing pirate ship Bonaparte and its hidden gold. Your decisions guide the treasure hunt through different risks and possible endings as you pursue the ship's valuable cargo.

Hostage!

by Various

1996

A drug cartel takes you and your classmates hostage during a visit to Washington, D.C. Threatening to release a deadly virus, the criminals force you to choose how to respond and seek a way to safety.

Moon Quest

by Various

1996

Living in the Moon's Tycho Colony offers a chance to explore a new frontier. Outside the protective dome, limited oxygen and a dangerous landscape make every decision matter as you search for discoveries and a safe return.

Mountain Biker

by Various

1996

You spend the summer in Ute, Colorado, helping at your aunt's inn and riding mountain trails. Your choices determine whether to tackle the local racing series and how to handle the challenges of competitive mountain biking.

Terror on the Titanic

by Various

1996

Boarding the Titanic in April 1912 seems like the start of a wonderful voyage, until you discover trouble aboard. Your decisions determine whom to trust and how to survive as the ship approaches its disastrous encounter.

The Gold Medal Secret

by Various

1996

You compete as a swimmer at the Atlanta Olympics, hoping to win gold. When an athlete from another team admits to steroid use, you must decide what to do while protecting your own chance to compete.

The Power Dome

by Various

1996

During an Oregon hike, you discover a glowing dome that transports you to a future where aliens enslave humans. You choose whether to seek mercy, attempt escape, or resist while trying to return to your own time.

In Vermont in 1853, bounty hunters arrive seeking people who have escaped slavery. When you discover where two captives are being held, you must decide how to help in a town divided over their pursuit.

Fire on Ice

by Various

1997

Moving to a Massachusetts town gives you a chance to pursue your favorite sport, ice hockey. You must choose between the school team and a rougher renegade team coached by a former professional player.

Killer Virus

by Various

1997

You travel with your uncle and a team of medical and scientific specialists to investigate a deadly virus outbreak. Your choices determine how you search for its source and help those affected in the danger zone.

Master of Kendo

by Various

1997

A trip to Japan to study kendo becomes dangerous when your teacher reveals a mysterious sword linked to a famous general. With gangsters pursuing you, your choices and martial arts skills shape the search for answers.

Ninja Avenger

by Various

1997

Your friend Nada has signed a dangerous document, and you travel into the future to retrieve it. A deadly ninja cyborg blocks the way, leaving you to choose between martial arts and a riddle that might defeat it.

River of No Return

by Various

1997

You join a whitewater rafting trip on Montana's Anacasta River, where the rapids can quickly become dangerous. Your decisions determine which route to take and whether the adventure ends safely or becomes a struggle to survive.

Stampede!

by Various

1997

A summer at your uncle's Utah ranch brings cattle roundups and work with young mustangs. When the annual rodeo arrives, you decide whether to test your riding skills on a bull or take another path.

CyberHacker

by Various

1998

As a hacker in a future with advanced virtual reality, you can enter a computer's world. When your friend disappears, the adventure becomes a search shaped by your decisions and the dangers of this digital environment.

Fugitive

by Various

1998

A visit to your uncle in New York turns into a nightmare when criminals kidnap you and force you into a jewel theft. Accused in the newspapers and on the run, you must choose how to prove your innocence.

Mayday!

by Various

1998

You and your cousin Eddie help fly a small plane carrying supplies and passengers across remote Alaska. Bad weather, mechanical problems, and an emergency landing leave you choosing how to survive and whether to explore a mysterious cave.

A summer job on a spooky warehouse's night shift leads you toward tunnels and portals to haunted places. You choose how to evade dangerous spirits and escape before becoming another object trapped within the building.

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