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The Lord of the Rings
1954–1955 fantasy novel trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
1937 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
Robinson Crusoe
1719 novel by Daniel Defoe
Treasure Island
1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chronicles of Narnia
series of children's fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis, 1950–1956
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.
The Wind in the Willows
English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated
The Pickwick Papers
1837 novel by Charles Dickens
King Solomon's Mines
novel by Henry Rider Haggard (1885)
Watership Down
1972 novel by Richard Adams
The Lost World
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Live and Let Die
novel by Ian Fleming
The Prisoner of Zenda
1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope
She: A History of Adventure
novel by H. Rider Haggard
Kidnapped
1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lost Horizon
1933 novel by James Hilton
The Man Who Was Thursday
1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton
The Thirty-nine Steps
novel by John Buchan
The Coral Island
adventure novel by R. M. Ballantyne
A Dog of Flanders
1872 novel by Ouida
Captain Blood
1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini
The Man Who Would Be King
novella by Rudyard Kipling
Montezuma's Daughter
1893 adventure novel by Henry Rider Haggard
Tom's Midnight Garden
1958 novel by Philippa Pearce
Beau Geste
1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren
Stormbreaker
work by Anthony Horowitz
The Edge Chronicles
book series by Paul Stewart
Captains Courageous
1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling
Catriona
novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette
short novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
The Four Feathers
1902 novel by A. E. W. Mason
The Maracot Deep
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Phantom Ship
book
Wolf Brother
2004 novel by Michelle Paver
Ayesha
novel by the Victorian author H. Rider Haggard
The Mask of Dimitrios
1939 novel by Eric Ambler
Children of the Red King
Series of fantasy novels by Jenny Nimmo
Allan Quatermain
novel by H. Rider Haggard
The Enemy
2009 novel by Charlie Higson
Moonfleet
book by J. Meade Falkner
The Plague Dogs
1977 novel by Richard Adams
Swallows and Amazons
book by Arthur Ransome
The Flying Inn
novel by G. K. Chesterton
Westward Ho!
1855 novel by Charles Kingsley
Greenmantle
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay. It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.