- The Grizzly King – James Oliver Curwood : James Oliver Curwood is one of the great in far north fiction, along with Jack London, and this one is his best that I know of, about hunters tracking grizzlies in the far north.
- Moonfleet – John Meade Falkner : Moonfleet inspired the movie by Fritz Lang, but is very unlike it. It is made of awesome. Young John Trenchard, in 18th england, search for the treasure of BlackBeard, a black diamond, and is helped in his ways by the local smugglers.
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre or The Death Ship – B. Traven : B. Traven wrote some of the best adventures books of all, along with great infos on Mexico and its political ways.

“Plum” Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster books are light comedy that reads almost like a detective story; Bertie gets into some sort of trouble and Jeeves gets him out. Awesome!

No adventure list can be complete without Louis L’Amour books like “The Last of the Breed”.
Fictional tale of the last descendant of an Indian tribe who is shot down near Russia and put in their remote prison (WW1 era i think) and escapes rather quickly but must adapt and rely on his skills he learned as a boy to evade capture and defeat his ultimate rival.

Also, if you likes “Hatchet” there are 4 more sequels (all good).
“The River” for when he returns to the wild with a reporter who wants to document his survival only to turn into a new adventure,
“Brian’s Winter” covers the alternate story-line if he had not been rescued in Hatchet and had to survive the cold winter.
“Brian’s Return” follows Brian as he realizes society isn’t his home anymore, and he returns to the woods.
“The Hunt” covers his tracking of a man-killer that destroyed almost all that he loved. It ties into the history of all the other books and is a captivating read.

One adventure I’m nearly through reading (and which I’ve enjoyed very much) is “Mutiny on the Bounty” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. I had no idea it was part of a trilogy, and so I am excited to read the next soon.

I never heard about “The Man Who Would Be King” before this, but the description piqued my interest. Thanks again!

I posted a proposition on AOM’s “100 Books…” post that Ender’s game should be on the list. It brings the depth of morality, respect, mortality, honor, and humility to the table. A true “must read.”