Action & Adventure

The Scarlet Plague

by Jack London Read by James Christopher 4.4
Known mainly for his tales of adventure, this work of science fiction by Jack London is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It's 2072, sixty y…

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 …

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,…

The Valley of the Moon

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…

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…

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…

Tumbler

by Brand Gamblin Read by Brand Gamblin 4.6
Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as possible. However, her…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain Read by Steve Andersen 4.6
Come and hear the strange tale of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds …

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 Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.6
Part three of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow-up to The Water Planet, and …

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 Skylark of Space

by E. E. “Doc” Smith Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
The Skylark of Space by E. E. “Doc” Smith invites listeners into a groundbreaking adventure of interstellar travel, marking a pivotal moment…

The People of the Mist

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the …

Voodoo Planet

by Andre Norton Read by Mark Nelson 4.4
The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an inters…

The Wolf Hunters

by James Oliver Curwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Follow Roderick and his friends Wabi and Mukoki on their adventures in the pristine North. They fight voracious wolves, hostile natives, and…

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

Uncle Bernac

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne Read by Ralph Snelson 4.8
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Ve…

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