Action & Adventure

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him…

The Hunt

by Mercedes Lackey Read by Mercedes Lackey 4.5
The Hunt portrays the frenzied aftermath of the devastating Thule Society attacks. Famed fantasy and sci-fi author Mercedes Lackey and newco…

The Captain of the Polestar

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
The Captain of the Polestar is a captivating collection of early short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, showcasing his diverse storytellin…

The Danger Trail

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.3
Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through som…

After London, or Wild England

by Richard Jefferies Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.6
During a raid of the Ulliam system the Handler's manage to drop off a message to Captain Cook and the United Corps Planets in the form a 16 …

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.5
Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English…

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a…

A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

Tom Sawyer Abroad

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque a…

The Golden Snare

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.6
With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder an…

The Valley of Silent Men

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.5
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decid…

The Ethical Engineer

by Harry Harrison Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.5
“The Ethical Engineer” also known as “Deathworld II” finds our hero Jason dinAlt captured to face justice for his crimes, but the ever-wily …

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain Read by Phil Chenevert 4.9
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

Queen of the Black Coast

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
Conan finally meets his match in Belit, the fierce, bloodthirsty and scantily clad pirate Queen. She also is unable to resist the huge, blue…

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.5
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton follows the extraordinary journey of a man who rises from humble beginnings to beco…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …

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