Action & Adventure

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…

After London, or Wild England

by Richard Jefferies Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …

813

by Maurice Leblanc Read by Cate Barratt 4.6
In 813, the clever gentleman thief Arsène Lupin is once again embroiled in a web of intrigue and deception. Wrongfully accused of mur…

Under Drake's Flag

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
An exciting tale set on the high seas, in a period ruled by exploration, with the ever-present dangers of nature and the weather, together w…

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 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 …

The Cosmic Computer

by H. Beam Piper Read by Mark Nelson 4.1
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible…

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.5
Dyson Sphere is part two of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow up to The Wat…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.7
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.2
When a comet the size of a small moon threatens the remote world of Regal the Earth Alliance assigns the most decorated ship in the fleet, t…

Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X

by Victor Appleton Read by Mark Nelson 4.3
Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—…

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens Read by Kyle M. 4.9
The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre d…

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

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…

Michael Strogoff

by Jules Verne Read by David Leeson 4.6
This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city…

The Hour of the Dragon

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
This is absolutely the best Conan novel ever written in my opinion. It follows Conan when at the peak of his power as king of Aquilonia, he…

The Fur Country

by Jules Verne Read by Esther 4.5
In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees,…

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