Action & Adventure

She and Allan

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) 4.5
H Rider Haggard’s “She and Allan”, first published in 1921 is a gripping adventure about Allan Quatermain, who together with Hans, the Hotte…

Tom Swift in Captivity

by Victor Appleton Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
Tom Swift is approached by Mr. Preston, the owner of a circus, and begins to tell the story of Jake Poddington, Mr. Preston's most skilled h…

The Skylark of Space

by E. E. “Doc” Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
When scientist Richard Seaton discovers a way to harness a powerful new source of energy, his breakthrough opens the possibility of travel b…

The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.5
The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It all starts near her home…

The Princess Galva

by David Whitelaw Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Edward Povey had been a correspondence clerk for twenty-two years when he was summarily dismissed. So how did he find himself mixed up with …

The Black Tulip

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.5
The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the…

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

by Jack London Read by Tom Crawford 4.4
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 an…

The Underground City

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiv…

The Curse of Carne's Hold

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
When Ronald Mervyn from Devonshire is falsely accused of murder he emigrates to South Africa. He takes part in the Kaffir war and during thi…

The Watchers

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Jacquerie 4.4
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to …

Greenmantle

by John Buchan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…

The Talisman

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Lizzie Driver 4.3
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel

by Victor Appleton Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated …

The Emerald City of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Judy Bieber 4.6
The Emerald City of Oz (1910) was the sixth Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, a title he hoped would be the last. In this book, Dorothy and …

Round The Fire Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Wales 4.7
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad Read by Stewart Wills 4.5
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Cruise of the Esmeralda

by Harry Collingwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is…

The Mystery of the Chinese Ring

by Andy Adams Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) 4.5
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring is an exotic adventure story and is set in locations such as Burma and China, with the historical and politi…

Alibi Jones

by Mike Luoma Read by Mike Luoma 4.4
Science Fiction Adventure in the year 2135! Alibi Jones, a Mediator for the Solar Alliance, is on the trail of alien kidnappers. He'll soon …

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