Adventure Books of the 1920s
The 103 most-read adventure books first published between 1920 and 1929, led by The Hero and the Crown (1924), Wisdom's Daughter (1923) and The Secret of the Old Mill (1927).
This list collects 103 books from the 1920s by 74 authors, published between 1920 and 1929. 4 are free to read and 94 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley
- FREE🎧
Wisdom's Daughter
H. Rider Haggard
The Secret of the Old Mill
Leslie McFarlane, Tony Carpentieri
Powder and Patch
Georgette Heyer
- FREE🎧
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
The House on the Cliff
Leslie McFarlane
- FREE
Beauvallet (Beauvallet Dynasty #2)
Georgette Heyer
Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The
Padraic Colum
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
- FREE🎧
The Black Buccaneer
Stephen W. Meader
The Nine Unknown
Talbot Mundy
El Faro Del Fin Del Mundo/ the Lighthouse at the End of the World
Jules Verne
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Aces Up
Covington Clarke
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Tangled Trails
William MacLeod Raine
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Dark
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
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Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery
Absalom Martin
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Lucinda
Anthony Hope
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Splendid Wayfaring
John Neihardt
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Mating in the Wilds
Ottwell Binns
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Cave On Thunder Cloud
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Lady of the North Star
Ottwell Binns
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Jungle Girl
Gordon Casserly
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Curlie Carson Listens In
Roy J. Snell
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Book of All Power
Edgar Wallace
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On the Yukon Trail
Roy J. Snell
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Four Stragglers
Frank L. Packard
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Quirt
B. M. Bower
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Mark of Zorro
Johnston McCulley
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Three Hostages
John Buchan
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Bransford Of Rainbow Range
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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Kangaroo
D. H. Lawrence
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Money to Burn, An Adventure Story
Reginald Wright Kauffman
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Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail
Jessie Graham Flower
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Black Pawl
Ben Ames Williams
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Nostromo (Version 2)
Joseph Conrad
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''Mr Rowl''
D. K. Broster
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Meadowlark Basin
B. M. Bower
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Clubfoot the Avenger
Valentine Williams
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Arizona Callahan
H. Bedford-Jones
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Arizona Argonauts
H. Bedford-Jones
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Rustlers, Beware!
Arthur Chapman
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Two On the Trail
Edith Elise Cowper
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Rover Boys Winning A Fortune
Arthur M. Winfield
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Gleam in the North
D. K. Broster
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Devil-Ray
Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.
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Non-Stop Stowaway
Clayton Knight
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Secret of the Old Mill (Version 3 Dramatic Reading)
Franklin W. Dixon
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John MacNab
John Buchan
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Virgin of the Sun
H. Rider Haggard
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First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier
Baroness Emma Orczy
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Westy Martin on the Santa Fe Trail
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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Revolt of the Birds
Melville Davisson Post
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Scar
Carl Ramus
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Alaskan
James Oliver Curwood
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Square Deal Sanderson
Charles Alden Seltzer
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Moonraker
F. Tennyson Jesse
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Memoirs of a London Doll
Richard Henry Horne
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Rain Magic
Erle Stanley Gardner
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Shore Road Mystery (version 2)
Franklin W. Dixon
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Men of the Deep Waters
William Hope Hodgson
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Secret of the Caves
Franklin W. Dixon
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Mystery of Cabin Island
Franklin W. Dixon
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Longshanks
Stephen W. Meader
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Fire Spirits
Paul Busson
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Box Office Murders
Freeman Wills Crofts
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Mysterious Aviator (aka So Disdained)
Nevil Shute
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"Old" Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney
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St Martin's Summer
Rafael Sabatini
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Silent Alarm
Roy J. Snell
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Green Splotches
T. S. Stribling
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Pleasant Jim
Max Brand
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'Phone Booth Mystery
John Ironside
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Carolinian
Rafael Sabatini
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Ashenden (or The British Agent)
W. Somerset Maugham
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Radio Boys at the Sending Station or Making Good in the Wireless Room
Allen Chapman
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Radio Boys at Mountain Pass
Allen Chapman
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Rugged Water
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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Radio Boys on the Pacific
Allen Chapman
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Radio Boys Search for the Inca’s Treasure
Gerald Breckenridge
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Valley of Silent Men
James Oliver Curwood
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Country Beyond
James Oliver Curwood
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Flaming Forest
James Oliver Curwood
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Golden Snare
James Oliver Curwood
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Way of the Lawless
Max Brand
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Bulldog Drummond
Sapper
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Alcatraz
Max Brand
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Black Star
Johnston McCulley
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Snowdrift
James B. Hendryx
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Black Jack
Max Brand
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Red Masquerade
Louis Joseph Vance
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Northwest!
Harold Bindloss
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Rangy Pete
Guy Morton
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Covered Wagon
Emerson Hough
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Scarhaven Keep
J. S. Fletcher
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Tom of the Raiders
Austin Bishop
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Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)
Baroness Emma Orczy