The 50 Best Action Adventure Books of 2024

Top 50 Free Action Adventure Books - April 2024

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling (1936)

The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steam...

The Dark Web D.G. Marshall (2017)

The Dark Web is the sequel to THE SAND TRAP. The novel starts as Melanie McDougal plays her last tournament in the TOUR CHAMPIONS ...

The Moon is Down John Steinbeck (2023)

"The Moon is Down" is a novella written by John Steinbeck and was published in 1942 during the height of World War II. S...

The People That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917)

The People that Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the second of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. The first novel e...

Wired Rogue Toby Neal (2016)

"Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly." ~KIRKUS REVIEWS I f Jack Reacher and Lisbeth Salander had a ...

The Mad King Edgar Rice Burroughs (1950)

Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, wh...

Little Moon Lucas Schmidt (2021)

An adventurous love story set within 1837-1848 Texas about an Irish boy stolen by the Comanche, the outcast woman who is said to b...

Security Risk Megan Matthews (2017)

A humorous romantic suspense from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Megan Matthews! The past is never far behind you. I didn’t expect t...

The Fall River Family Saga Chloe Emile (2015)

Book 1: The Fall River Family Saga Book 2: Meghan's Story Book 3: Molly's Story  Book 4: Annie's Story&...

The Time Traders Andre Norton (2005)

At least that was the theory American scientists were exploring in an effort to explain the new sources of knowledge the Russians ...

It All Comes Out in the Wash Sophia Watson (2017)

With a combination of farm folks, hippie artisans and high-end jet setter tourists -- the chance for intrigue is always p...

Arson Tori Ross (2023)

Archie Morganstern is a fireman in Jensen City with a typical life. At least it's a normal life until he falls into a mysteri...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (1910)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first p...

The Game Jack London (1984)

This is the adventures of a 20-year-old prizefighter who is about to give up the glory and fame of amateur boxing under pressure f...

Rinkitink in Oz L. Frank Baum (1915)

Armed only with three magic pearls that imbue strength, invincibility, and wisdom, the three take on the open sea, the military mi...

Omoo Herman Melville (1890)

A failed mutiny lands the narrator in a Tahitian jail where he and his companion, Doctor Long Ghost, are treated with curiosity an...

Chasing Rain Brandt Legg (2023)

They thought killing him would end it. They were wrong. It can't end. Chase Malone is one of the smartest men in the tech ind...

Five Weeks in a Balloon Jules Verne (2021)

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventur...

Moby Dick Herman Melville (2008)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American ...

Maximum Risk Jennifer Lowery (2014)

It should have been a simple rescue mission... Retired Pararescueman, Quinn Wolff, wrote the book on how to stay alive during a mi...

Damien Cobb Hates the Holidays L. E. Towne (2023)

A former undercover cop turned homicide detective, Damien Cobb grapples with the demands of a desk job, a grieving 13-year-old dau...

Angel Flights Baer Charlton (2022)

As Los Angeles comes of age in the 1960s, two undercover cops struggle to maintain their balance in the growing drug trade. &#...

Dead Quarantine A. Rosaria (2014)

Unbeknownst to two teenagers—Ralph worried about a history exam he didn't study for and Sarah having studied all weekend—a fl...

The Call of the Wild Jack London (1915)

In this novel (often mistakingly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted an...

Nickel Winter Travers (2017)

Simple. Neat. Orderly. A place for everything, and everything in its place. Karmen Handel's life growing up had been anything...

The Magic of Oz L. Frank Baum (1919)

This story deals with the discovery of a powerful magic word by a young boy from Oz, who immediately is plunged head - first into ...

A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holme...

The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper (1850)

In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years...

The Marvelous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum (1981)

The second of the Oz books. It follows the adventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Tip. The Emerald City has been taken o...

Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne (1904)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Many credit Jules Verne with inventing the genre of science fiction. In this novel, the author of ...

A Scary Vacation Jack Haller (2013)

Two runners remain friends after college even though they live on opposite coasts. Their second summer out of school finds them on...

Feather of a Friend Children's Books for Charity (2016)

Will and Izzy are the best of friends. They look forward to the exciting adventures each new day may bring. But one day they encou...

Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne (2008)

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Ph...

The Doomsday Legacy Neil Howarth (2020)

THE DOOMSDAY LEGACY The key to the world's salvation - or to its darkest nightmare? A DEADLY THREAT When his uncle, a retired...

Drop a Gear and Disappear Winter Travers (2019)

They tried to make me disappear. I thought I had found the brotherhood I had been searching for. A club to fill the nagging void. ...

The Awakened City Arturo Miriello (2013)

IIn the early days of Earth's history, humanity grew in numbers and quickly spread across the lands subduing everything befor...

The Exploits of Juve Marcel Allain (2009)

The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Fantômas broke the mold of the ...

The Secret of the Island Jules Verne (1904)

This book is a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. A party of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose...

Army Boys in France Homer Randall (2011)

Army Boys in France is a Fiction Action and Adventure Book. The book tells that "Looks like war, fellows!" exclaimed Fra...

Sins of the Mafia Vi Carter (2023)

Four mafia families who rule the underworld. A power struggle that leads to war. And a forbidden love that might set it all ablaze...

Lunar Discovery Salvador Mercer (2017)

What lies on the dark side of the moon could change the course of humanity forever.When a Chinese rover discovers an alien technol...

Fearless Cameron K. Moore (2023)

Living without fear is the fastest way to die... After saving his daughter’s life by making a breakthrough medical discovery, Dr. ...

The Iliad of Homer Homer (2005)

"The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year sie...

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt (1919)

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches brilliantly captures the thrill of the chase as Theodore Roosevelt, the man the teddy bear i...

Glinda of Oz L. Frank Baum (1920)

The book describes, the Princess Ozma and Dorothy travel to an obscure corner of the Land of Oz, in order to prevent a war between...

The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett (1770)

This picaresque novel is set in the 1730s and 1740s and tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick Rory Random, who wa...

The Shepherd of the Hills Harold Bell Wright (1944)

The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shephe...

Gold Country J.B. Richard (2021)

It's hard to believe what some men will do for the promise of wealth. But every man has his price. A young man returns home a...

Hiding Calle J. Brookes (2017)

ADVENTURE.    DANGER.        EXCITEMENT.  PAVAD Internal Affairs Su...

The Last Call George Wier (2015)

THE LAST CALL starts with a protagonist on the edge of an impending midlife crisis. Add a blond and an old friend with a fetish fo...

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