Free Adventure Books

Browse 29 free Adventure books you can read online right now. Every title is a public-domain classic — read it in your browser, or download a free EPUB, PDF, or Kindle copy. Here are the best free Adventure ebooks in our library.

The Odyssey

Homer · Adventure

The epic Greek poem following Odysseus's perilous ten-year journey home after the fall of Troy. Read free →

The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott · Adventure

The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles… Read free →

The Yeoman Adventurer

George W. Gough · Adventure

The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded ti… Read free →

Forest Days

G. P. R. James · Adventure

Forest Days by G. P. R. James is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is… Read free →

The Treasure of Pearls

Gustave Aimard · Adventure

The Treasure of Pearls by Gustave Aimard is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded ti… Read free →

Four Arthurian Romances

Chrétien de Troyes · Adventure

Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-download… Read free →

The Pirate

Walter Scott · Adventure

The Pirate by Walter Scott is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is ca… Read free →

Manon Lescaut

abbé Prévost · Adventure

Manon Lescaut by abbé Prévost is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is… Read free →

Cynthia's Chauffeur

Louis Tracy · Adventure

Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy is a public-domain adventure work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. … Read free →

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 1719 · Adventure

The story of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island. Often considered the first English novel. Read free →

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726 · Adventure

Lemuel Gulliver voyages to strange lands including Lilliput (tiny people) and Brobdingnag (giants) in this brilliant satire. Read free →

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 1826 · Adventure

Set during the French and Indian War, this frontier adventure follows Hawkeye and his Mohican companions through the wilderness of colonial America. Read free →

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · Adventure

An epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, daring escape, and elaborate revenge. One of the greatest adventure novels ever written. Read free →

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · Adventure

The swashbuckling adventures of d'Artagnan and his three musketeer friends — Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — in 17th-century France. Read free →

Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas · 1845 · Adventure

The sequel to The Three Musketeers reunites d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis during the turbulent Fronde rebellion in France. Read free →

The Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman · 1849 · Adventure

Parkman's firsthand account of his journey along the Oregon Trail in 1846. A vivid portrait of the American frontier and its indigenous peoples. Read free →

Moby Dick

Herman Melville · 1851 · Adventure

Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to hunt the legendary white whale, Moby Dick. An epic tale of obsession and the sea. Read free →

In Search of the Castaways

Jules Verne · 1868 · Adventure

A globe-spanning expedition to find a missing sea captain follows clues along the 37th parallel through South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Read free →

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain · 1881 · Adventure

Two boys — one a prince, one a pauper — switch identities and discover the realities of each other's lives in Tudor England. Read free →

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · Adventure

The classic pirate adventure. Young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and sets sail on a voyage of danger and discovery. Read free →

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · Adventure

David Balfour is cheated of his inheritance and abducted, then escapes across the Scottish Highlands with Jacobite Alan Breck in Stevenson's classic a… Read free →

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling · 1897 · Adventure

A spoiled rich boy falls overboard and is remade by a season of hard labor aboard a Grand Banks fishing schooner. Read free →

The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903 · Adventure

A domestic dog named Buck is stolen and sold into service as a sled dog in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Read free →

White Fang

Jack London · 1906 · Adventure

The journey of a wild wolf-dog hybrid from the frozen Yukon wilderness to domestication. A companion novel to The Call of the Wild. Read free →

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912 · Adventure

An English nobleman's son is raised by apes in the African jungle. The origin story of one of fiction's most iconic characters. Read free →

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