16 Best Adventure Books For Friends

Everyone wants to experience an adventure In their lives that brings some joy to them. Adventures are fun and exciting, and they come in all different forms, shapes and sizes. For example, your idea of adventuring may include going on a journey on a ship across the world; someone else might have a different idea of adventure and another friend of yours would probably consider going hiking in dangerous mountains to be an adventure. Our lives are limited, and to fully experience the beauty that exists in this world, one has to take risks and do things out of the ordinary to truly experience everything that life has to offer. The normal routines that people follow can often leave them in a depressing slump in which they can’t find themselves able to do much of anything at all. This is what makes adventuring so much more fun.

Larry Chesney’s Top Picks: Adventure Books for Friends

Larry Chesney is a renowned author and fellow adventurer who has his own ideas of what an adventure entails. He has written about his own adventures in magazines as well as writing his own adventure story in a book called Palmetto Creek that we recommend you check out. The list below contains adventure books for friends that many people will find enjoyable and exciting to read through.

1. Palmetto Creek: A Tale of the South Carolina Lowcountry By Larry Chesney

A powerful adventure book for friends that shows how a group of friends get together for their annual deer hunting expedition. The story shows the friends having fun while an old local observes them as they try to hunt deer and find themselves stuck in situations they thought they would never get into. Humorous and fun to read through all around a great adventure book for friends.

2. The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra By Alex Messenger

This is a great adventure book about the author’s experiences surviving an actual attack by a dangerous Grizzle bear in the Canadian wilderness while he was only 17 years old.

3. Endurance by Nathanial Philbrick

This is considered among the best adventure books ever written. The story is about a man in 1914, Ernest Shackleton, who set sail for Antarctica in a boat known as the Endurance. The man and his crew find themselves stranded in Antarctica and eventually try to claw themselves to civilization. A harrowing and inspirational story.

4. Lost on Purpose: The Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti) By Patrick Taylor

This is the story of a tech executive turned mountain man who decides to bring some excitement to his life by trekking through the Rockies alone to retrace the historic route of Lewis and Clark.

5. Stranded By Sarah Goodwin

This is the story of a group of friends who find themselves stranded on an island. The story is all about them trying their best to survive, all the while losing their sanity bit by bit. A harrowing and exciting thriller.

6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

A story about man vs society, the evils of slavery and the innate dignity of the human spirit. This is a very deep and powerful adventure that has inspired many other adventure books in American literature.

7. Fallen Out: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

This is a story about a former Marine Corps soldier who doesn’t have many plans left for the rest of his life, as his greatest skill involves neutralizing the enemy from up to a mile away. He understands that for a warrior the civilian world just isn’t it. The protagonist decides he wants a change in his life and thus decides to find a boat to live on. However, things take a turn for the worst. An exciting and intense adventure book that many will enjoy reading from start to finish.

8. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann

This is a true story about how a group of British shipmen end up being stranded on an island, building a decrepit craft and landing in Brazil tells a story about how they were on a secret mission during the war against Spain. However, when another ship lands in Chile, the men on that ship state that the men from the other ship are mutineers. This leads to the admiralty convening a court martial to determine who was lying or telling the truth. And having charges thrown against them, a harrowing adventure story that truly shows how things can often go very wrong in maritime operations in times of war.

9. Alice in Wonderland By Lewis Caroll

A story about a young girl named Alice who ends up in a fantastical world as she goes through a rabbit hole and discovers a world with anthropomorphic creatures. Considered one of the best adventure fantasy books ever written.

10. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

An exciting adventure book that shows the protagonist get into different complicated situations as he tries to chase a treasure, and gets stuck in predicament after predicament. A great story that many adventure book fans will enjoy reading through.

Conclusion

Hopefully, the above list of adventure books for friends helps one find the type of adventure book that they wish to read through. This list was curated by Larry Chesney himself and should provide any adventure fan with loads of enjoyable literature to sift through.