Adventure Books of the 1890s
The 64 most-read adventure books first published between 1890 and 1899, led by Dracula (1897), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1899) and The Time Machine (1895).
This list collects 64 books from the 1890s by 49 authors, published between 1890 and 1899. 9 are free to read and 62 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Edith Nesbit
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Tom Sawyer Abroad
Mark Twain
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Nada the Lily
H. Rider Haggard
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The Well at the World's End
William Morris
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The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang
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Among Malay Pirates
G. A. Henty
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Lewis Carroll
The Land of Stories
Chris Colfer
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Plain Living
Rolf Boldrewood
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Gadfly
Ethel Lilian Voynich
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Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories
Thomas Wallace Knox
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Eleven Possible Cases
Various
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Dr. Nikola’s Experiment
Guy Boothby
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Pride of Jennico
Egerton Castle
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Last Three Soldiers
William Henry Shelton
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Mysteries of Marseilles
Émile Zola
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Lust of Hate
Guy Boothby
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Earth's Enigmas
Charles G. D. Roberts
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Cave In the Mountain
Edward S. Ellis
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To London Town
Arthur Morrison
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Blake of the "Rattlesnake"
Frederick Thomas Jane
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Captain Antifer
Jules Verne
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Cripps the Carrier
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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Heart of Darkness (version 3)
Joseph Conrad
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim
Alexandre Dumas
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)
Alexandre Dumas
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Gallegher and other Stories
Richard Harding Davis
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Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 4: Taking the Bastile
Alexandre Dumas
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George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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Murray's Adirondack Tales
William Henry Harrison Murray
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Wreck of the Corsaire
William Clark Russell
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Dan, the Newsboy
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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Stone Chest
G. A. Henty
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV
François Rabelais
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Copper Princess
Kirk Munroe
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Tragedy of the Korosko
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Mark Twain
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Nigger of the Narcissus
Joseph Conrad
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Wizard
H. Rider Haggard
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Prisoner of Morro
Upton Sinclair
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Fearsome Island
Albert Kinross
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For Treasure Bound
Harry Collingwood
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Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida
Oliver Optic
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Child of the Jago
Arthur Morrison
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Teddy's Button
Amy Le Feuvre
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Weapons of Mystery
Joseph Hocking
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Great K. & A. Train-Robbery
Paul Leicester Ford
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Cruise of the Esmeralda
Harry Collingwood
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Outcast Of The Islands
Joseph Conrad
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In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories
Robert Barr
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In Exile and Other Stories
Mary Hallock Foote
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Stolen Souls
William Le Queux
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Chronicles of Count Antonio
Anthony Hope
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Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
Charles King
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Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
G. A. Henty
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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Last Entry
William Clark Russell
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Wrecker
Lloyd Osbourne, Robert Louis Stevenson
Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp
Sidney Heath