Action & Adventure

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, T…

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…

By Pike and Dyke

by G. A. Henty Read by David Leeson 4.6
It is the 1570's, and the people of the Netherlands live in terror under the cruel dominion of Spain. Though many long to be free of Spanish…

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…

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 …

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 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 …

The House by the Lock

by Alice Muriel Williamson Read by Roger Melin 4.5
What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house?A body …

The Scarlet Plague

by Jack London Read by James Christopher 4.3
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…

Danger in Deep Space

by Carey Rockwell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The year is 2353. Tom Corbett is a cadet with the Space Academy, training to become a member of the elite Solar Guard. Sent on a top-secret …

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…

The Tragedy of the Korosko

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) 4.5
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally con…

Famous Sea Fights

by John R. Hale Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I sha…

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 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…

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 …

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.7
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…

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 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…

The Skylark of Space

by E. E. “Doc” Smith Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
The Skylark of Space by E. E. “Doc” Smith invites listeners into a groundbreaking adventure of interstellar travel, marking a pivotal moment…

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