What you'll find here
Action and adventure is about momentum: something to find, something to stop, somewhere to get to before it's too late. The books listed here include:
- Treasure hunts and lost worlds. Maps, ruins, rivals racing for the same prize. Tagged quest.
- Heists. A crew, a plan, and everything that goes wrong with it. Tagged heist.
- Survival. Stranded, hunted or cut off, with only wits and each other.
- Military and special forces. Missions, teams, and the cost of the job.
- Swashbuckling adventure. Pirates, duels and daring rescues, often historical.
- Underdog stories. Outmatched from the start. Tagged underdog.
Adventure with spaceships sits alongside science fiction; adventure with magic, fantasy.
Finding your next one
- Read chapter 1 first. Pace is everything here, and the first chapter shows it. It's free on every book that has it.
- Try "Most finished". Books ranked by how many readers finish the free first chapter. Nobody can pay to be there.
- Filter by trope. Under More filters on the books page, pick a trope and leave out content you'd rather not read.
- Read before release. Authors give out free advance copies here. Ask for a place and read it in your browser.
Writing action and adventure?
List your book free and add your first chapter: your chapter 1 page shows how many readers finish it and where the ones who stop leave off, which is the clearest measure of pace there is. Put the stakes and the clock in your blurb's first lines: How to write a blurb.