Adventure Books of the 1900s
The 87 most-read adventure books first published between 1900 and 1909, led by Five Children and It (1905), The Riddle of the Sands (1903) and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908).
This list collects 87 books from the 1900s by 67 authors, published between 1900 and 1909. 9 are free to read and 74 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
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Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit
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The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
L. Frank Baum
Ayesha
H. Rider Haggard
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I Will Repay
Emma Orczy
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The Ghost Kings
H. Rider Haggard
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The Sea-Hawk
Rafael Sabatini
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The little white bird, or, Adventures in Kensington gardens
J. M. Barrie
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Salute to Adventurers
John Buchan
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The Master Key
L. Frank Baum
Taran Wanderer
Lloyd Alexander
The Gap in the Curtain
John Buchan
Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige
Selma Lagerlöf
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The Purple Cloud
M. P. Shiel, J. J. Cameron
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
The Golden Key
George MacDonald
Novels (Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson
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Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods
Albert Bigelow Paine
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Rover Boys on the Great Lakes
Arthur M. Winfield
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Love of Monsieur
George Gibbs
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Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West
Frank Norris
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Spy
Richard Harding Davis
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Chicago Princess
Robert Barr
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Hound From the North
Ridgwell Cullum
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Rover Boys on Land and Sea
Arthur M. Winfield
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Texas Matchmaker
Andy Adams
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My Strange Rescue
James Macdonald Oxley
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Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack
Frank Benton
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Last Rebel
Joseph A. Altsheler
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Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War
Archibald Clavering Gunter
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Queen's Necklace
Alexandre Dumas
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Gudrun
Ferdinand Schmidt
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Spirit of Bambatse
H. Rider Haggard
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In Search of Treasure
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders
Henry Wallace Phillips
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Cattle Brands
Andy Adams
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Daughter of a Magnate
Frank H. Spearman
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King Arthur and His Knights
Maude L. Radford Warren
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Brethren (Version 2)
H. Rider Haggard
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Elissa
H. Rider Haggard
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Moon-Face and Other Stories
Jack London
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Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 7: Winning His Way
Frank Tousey
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In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers
G. A. Henty
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Sunshine and Snow
Harold Bindloss
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Romance
Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford
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Stingaree
E. W. Hornung
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Young Ice Whalers
Winthrop Packard
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Newsboy Partners
Frank V. Webster
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House of a Thousand Candles
Meredith Nicholson
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Last of the Plainsmen
Zane Grey
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Shepherd of the Hills
Harold Bell Wright
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Sea Wolf
Jack London
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Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest
Stewart Edward White
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Merry Anne
Samuel Merwin, Sr.
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Man from Glengarry
Ralph Connor
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Raiding with Morgan
Byron A. Dunn
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Calumet “K”
Samuel Merwin, Sr., Henry Kitchell Webster
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Abandoned
William Clark Russell
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House by the Lock
Alice Muriel Williamson
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Black Heart and White Heart
H. Rider Haggard
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Gold Hunters
James Oliver Curwood
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Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Alexander Hunter
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Outlet
Andy Adams
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Rebel of the School
L. T. Meade
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Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography
Andy Adams
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Game
Jack London
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Yellow Journalist
Miriam Michelson
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Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08
Various
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Booth Tarkington
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Peril Finders
George Manville Fenn
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Blazed Trail
Stewart Edward White
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Born Again
Alfred Lawson
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Thief in the Night
E. W. Hornung
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Lure of the Dim Trails
B. M. Bower
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Eye For An Eye
William Le Queux
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Silver Horde
Rex Beach
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House of the White Shadows
B. L. Farjeon
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Romance of a Mummy and Egypt
Théophile Gautier
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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
E. W. Hornung
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Game and the Candle
Eleanor M. Ingram
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Passenger from Calais
Arthur Griffiths
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Cabinet Secret
Guy Boothby
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Rezanov
Gertrude Atherton
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Tales of the Fish Patrol
Jack London
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Daughter of the Snows
Jack London
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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad