Action & Adventure

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift Read by Lizzie Driver 4.2
Gulliver's Travels is a satirical adventure that takes readers on a journey through fantastical lands, exploring the absurdities of human na…

Famous Sea Fights

by John R. Hale Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I sha…

The Sign of the Four

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secr…

Star Hunter

by Andre Norton Read by Leonie Rose 4.3
"Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding—a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain patte…

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…

An Eye For An Eye

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.2
Frank Urwin and Richard Cleugh are two bachelor journalists sharing a flat in London. One evening while chatting, Urwin receives a telegram …

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…

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera th…

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a…

The Journey of Coronado

by Pedro De Castañeda Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …

The Box-Car Children

by Gertrude Chandler Warner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Four children: Henry, Jess Violet and Bennie. They are living alone in a stranded boxcar. They find items they need from the dump and a stra…

The Confessions of Arsene Lupin

by Maurice Leblanc Read by Cate Barratt 4.6
Step into the world of Arsène Lupin, the charming gentleman thief whose escapades blur the line between crime and adventure. In this …

The Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.5
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

The Devil's Paw

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
In a world teetering on the brink of chaos, The Devil's Paw weaves a complex tale of loyalty and deception. At its heart is a beautiful and …

The Wizard That Wasn't

by Ben Rovik Read by Ben Rovik 4.4
Never trust a wizard. They’re all filthy, addle-brained con artists peddling superstitious nonsense. Horace Lundin doesn’t believe in their…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beau…

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

Five Children and It

by E. Nesbit Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

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…

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard Read by H. Rider Haggard 4.8
King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a jou…

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