Action, Adventure & Espionage Books: Complete List

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This is a complete list of action, adventure and espionage books by all authors, including novels and short-story collections (with GEMs highlighted). The list includes links for several associated items which may be available online for each book: (a) Wikipedia page, (b) e-book, and (c) audiobook. There is also a column called “More info” with links to optional posts on each book.

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Category	Year	Author	Book Title	GEM!	Comments	Wikipedia	E-book	Audiobook	More
AlistairM	1955	MacLean, Alistair	HMS Ulysses
AlistairM	1957	MacLean, Alistair	The Guns of Navarone
AlistairM	1958	MacLean, Alistair	South by Java Head
AlistairM	1959	MacLean, Alistair	The Last Frontier (aka The Secret Ways)
AlistairM	1959	MacLean, Alistair	Night Without End
AlistairM	1961	MacLean, Alistair	Fear Is the Key
AlistairM	1961	MacLean, Alistair	The Dark Crusader (aka The Black Shrike)		(writing as Ian Stuart)
AlistairM	1962	MacLean, Alistair	The Golden Rendezvous
AlistairM	1962	MacLean, Alistair	The Satan Bug		(writing as Ian Stuart)
AlistairM	1963	MacLean, Alistair	Ice Station Zebra
AlistairM	1966	MacLean, Alistair	When Eight Bells Toll
AlistairM	1967	MacLean, Alistair	Where Eagles Dare
AlistairM	1968	MacLean, Alistair	Force 10 From Navarone
AlistairM	1969	MacLean, Alistair	Puppet on a Chain
AlistairM	1970	MacLean, Alistair	Caravan to Vaccarès
AlistairM	1971	MacLean, Alistair	Bear Island
AlistairM	1973	MacLean, Alistair	The Way to Dusty Death
AlistairM	1974	MacLean, Alistair	Breakheart Pass
AlistairM	1975	MacLean, Alistair	Circus
AlistairM	1976	MacLean, Alistair	The Golden Gate
AlistairM	1977	MacLean, Alistair	Seawitch
AlistairM	1978	MacLean, Alistair	Goodbye, California
AlistairM	1980	MacLean, Alistair	Athabasca
AlistairM	1981	MacLean, Alistair	River of Death
AlistairM	1982	MacLean, Alistair	Partisans
AlistairM	1983	MacLean, Alistair	Floodgate
AlistairM	1984	MacLean, Alistair	San Andreas
AlistairM	1985	MacLean, Alistair	The Lonely Sea (Collected Short Stories)
AlistairM	1986	MacLean, Alistair	Santorini
Fleming	1953	Fleming, Ian	Casino Royale		Debut of James Bond
Fleming	1954	Fleming, Ian	Live and Let Die
Fleming	1955	Fleming, Ian	Moonraker
Fleming	1956	Fleming, Ian	Diamonds Are Forever
Fleming	1957	Fleming, Ian	From Russia, with Love
Fleming	1958	Fleming, Ian	Dr. No (aka Doctor No)
Fleming	1959	Fleming, Ian	Goldfinger
Fleming	1960	Fleming, Ian	For Your Eyes Only (& Other Stories)
Fleming	1961	Fleming, Ian	Thunderball		Debut of Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Fleming	1962	Fleming, Ian	The Spy Who Loved Me
Fleming	1963	Fleming, Ian	On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Fleming	1964	Fleming, Ian	You Only Live Twice
Fleming	1965	Fleming, Ian	The Man with the Golden Gun
Fleming	1966	Fleming, Ian	Octopussy (& Other Stories)
Other	-800	Homer	[Epic poem] The Odyssey		(originally in Ancient Greek)
Other	1300	Polo, Marco (with Rustichello da Pisa)	[Travelogue] The Travels of Marco Polo		(originally in Franco-Venetian)
Other	1485	Mallory, Sir Thomas	[Folklore] Le Morte d'Arthur (in two volumes)		First major compilation of Arthurian lore in English
Other	1615	Cervantes, Miguel de	Don Quixote		(originally in Spanish)
Other	1719	Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe		First ever English novel
Other	1726	Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels
Other	1804	Schiller, Friedrich	[Play] William Tell		(originally in German)
Other	1810	Porter, Jane	The Scottish Chiefs		Story of William Wallace
Other	1812	Wyss, Johann	The Swiss Family Robinson
Other	1817	Scott, Sir Walter	Rob Roy
Other	1819	Scott, Sir Walter	Ivanhoe
Other	1821	Cooper, James Fenimore	The Spy		First great success in American fiction
Other	1826	Cooper, James Fenimore	The Last of the Mohicans		Subtitled: A Narrative of 1757
Other	1834	Bulwer-Lytton, Edward	The Last Days of Pompeii
Other	1836	Marryat, Frederick	Mr Midshipman Easy
Other	1844	Dumas, Alexandre	[Novelette] The Corsican Brothers		(originally in French)
Other	1844	Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers		(originally in French)
Other	1846	Dumas, Alexandre	The Count of Monte Cristo		(originally in French)
Other	1848	Marryat, Frederick	The Little Savage
Other	1850	Dumas, Alexandre	The Black Tulip		(originally in French)
Other	1850	Dumas, Alexandre	The Man in the Iron Mask		(originally in French) Final story in the Three Musketeers series
Other	1851	Melville, Herman	Moby Dick (or, The Whale)
Other	1855	Kingsley, Charles	Westward Ho!
Other	1859	Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
Other	1863	Verne, Jules	Five Weeks in a Balloon		(originally in French)
Other	1864	Verne, Jules	A Journey to the Center of the Earth (aka A Journey to the Interior of the Earth)		(originally in French)
Other	1865	Erckmann-Chatrian	Waterloo		(originally in French)
Other	1865	Verne, Jules	From the Earth to the Moon		(originally in French)
Other	1867	Ouida	Under Two Flags
Other	1869	Blackmore, R. D.	Lorna Doone		Subtitled: A Romance of Exmoor
Other	1869	Verne, Jules	Round the Moon (aka Around the Moon)		(originally in French) Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon
Other	1870	Verne, Jules	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea		(originally in French)
Other	1872	Stanley, Henry M.	[Memoir] How I Found Livingstone
Other	1872	Verne, Jules	Around the World in Eighty Days		(originally in French)
Other	1875	Verne, Jules	The Mysterious Island		(originally in French)
Other	1876	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Other	1877	Verne, Jules	Off on a Comet		(originally in French)
Other	1880	Wallace, Lew	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Other	1881	Twain, Mark	The Prince and the Pauper
Other	1883	Pyle, Howard	The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Other	1883	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island
Other	1885	Henty, G. A.	In Freedom's Cause		Subtitled: A Story of Wallace and Bruce
Other	1885	Haggard, H. Rider	King Solomon's Mines
Other	1885	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn		Sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Other	1886	Verne, Jules	Robur the Conqueror		(originally in French) Sequel published in 1904: Master of the World
Other	1886	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Kidnapped
Other	1886	Stevenson, Robert Louis	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Other	1887	Haggard, H. Rider	She		Subtitled: A History of Adventure
Other	1888	Henty, G. A.	In the Reign Of Terror		Subtitled: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
Other	1891	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The White Company
Other	1891	Pyle, Howard	Men of Iron
Other	1892	Zola, Émile	The Downfall		(originally in French)
Other	1893	Stevenson, Robert Louis	[Short Stories] Island Nights' Entertainments
Other	1894	Hope, Anthony	The Prisoner of Zenda
Other	1895	Wells, H. G.	The Time Machine
Other	1895	Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage		Subtitled: An Episode of the American Civil War
Other	1897	Davis, Richard Harding	Soldiers of Fortune
Other	1897	Wells, H. G.	The Invisible Man
Other	1898	Seton, Ernest Thompson	[Linked Stories] Wild Animals I Have Known
Other	1898	Wells, H. G.	The War of the Worlds
Other	1900	Conrad, Joseph	Lord Jim
Other	1901	Kipling, Rudyard	Kim
Other	1903	Pyle, Howard	The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (illustrated)		Retelling of King Arthur saga Volume 1
Other	1904	Verne, Jules	The Master of the World		Sequel to Robut the Conqueror (1886)
Other	1905	Orczy, Baroness	The Scarlet Pimpernel		Debut of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Other	1905	Pyle, Howard	The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (illustrated)		Retelling of King Arthur saga Volume 2
Other	1907	Conrad, Joseph	The Secret Agent
Other	1907	Pyle, Howard	The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (illustrated)		Retelling of King Arthur saga Volume 3
Other	1910	Pyle, Howard	The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur (illustrated)		Retelling of King Arthur saga Volume 4
Other	1912	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Lost World		Debut of Professor Challenger
Other	1913	Orczy, Baroness	The Laughing Cavalier		Subtitled: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Other	1914	Burroughs, Edgar Rice	Tarzan of the Apes
Other	1915	Buchan, John	The Thirty-Nine Steps
Other	1917	Orczy, Baroness	Lord Tony's Wife		Subtitled: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Other	1919	McCulley, Johnston	The Curse of Capistrano (aka The Mark of Zorro)		Debut of Zorro
Other	1919	Orczy, Baroness	[Short Stories] The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Other	1920	Hawes, Charles Boardman	The Mutineers
Other	1922	Hough, Emerson	The Covered Wagon
Other	1922	Orczy, Baroness	The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Other	1923	Hawes, Charles Boardman	The Dark Frigate
Other	1928	Charteris, Leslie	Meet the Tiger (aka The Saint Meets the Tiger)		Debut of the Saint
Other	1930	Charteris, Leslie	[Short Stories] Enter the Saint
Other	1932	Charteris, Leslie	Getaway (aka The Saint's Getaway)
Other	1932	Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman	Mutiny on the Bounty
Other	1934	Charteris, Leslie	[Short Stories] The Saint Goes On
Other	1935	Charteris, Leslie	The Saint in New York
Other	1936	du Maurier, Daphne	Jamaica Inn
Other	1936	Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman	The Hurricane
Other	1939	Greene, Graham	The Confidential Agent
Other	1940	Charteris, Leslie	The Saint in Miami
Other	1941	MacInnes, Helen	Above Suspicion
Other	1941	Striker, Fran	The Lone Ranger Rides
Other	1948	Charteris, Leslie	[Novelettes] Call for the Saint		Includes 2 stories: 'King of the Beggars', 'Masked Angel'
Other	1949	Schaeffer, Jack	Shane
Other	1952	Boulle, Pierre	The Bridge on the River Kwai (originally in French)
Other	1953	Charteris, Leslie	[Short Stories] The Saint in Europe
Other	1956	Innes, Hammond	The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Other	1958	Hailey, Arthur	Flight into Danger (aka Runway Zero-Eight)
Other	1959	Condon, Richard	The Manchurian Candidate
Other	1962	Bagley, Desmond	The Golden Keel
Other	1962	Burdick, Eugene & Wheeler, Harvey	Fail-Safe
Other	1963	Le Carre, John	The Spy Who Came In from the Cold		Part 1 of the Karla trilogy
Other	1963	MacInnes, Helen	The Venetian Affair
Other	1967	Uris, Leon	Topaz
Other	1968	Hailey, Arthur	Airport
Other	1968	Portis, Charles	True Grit
Other	1969	Crichton, Michael	The Andromeda Strain
Other	1970	Bagley, Desmond	Running Blind
Other	1971	Forsyth, Frederick	The Day of the Jackal
Other	1972	Forsyth, Frederick	The Odessa File
Other	1972	Gallico, Paul	The Poseidon Adventure
Other	1973	Bagley, Desmond	The Tightrope Men
Other	1973	Sanders, Lawrence	The First Deadly Sin
Other	1974	Benchley, Peter	Jaws
Other	1974	Forsyth, Frederick	The Dogs of War
Other	1974	Goldman, William	Marathon Man
Other	1974	Le Carre, John	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy		Part 2 of the Karla trilogy
Other	1974	Ludlum, Robert	The Rhinemann Exchange
Other	1974	Weverka, Robert	The Sting (novelization)
Other	1975	Clavell, James	Shogun
Other	1975	Crichton, Michael	The Great Train Robbery
Other	1975	Harris, Thomas	Black Sunday
Other	1975	Higgins, Jack	The Eagle Has Landed
Other	1975	Smith, Wilbur	The Eye of the Tiger
Other	1976	Benchley, Peter	The Deep
Other	1977	Cook, Robin	Coma
Other	1977	Sheldon, Sidney	Bloodline
Other	1977	Thomas, Craig	Firefox
Other	1978	Follett, Ken	Eye of the Needle (aka Storm Island)
Other	1979	Forsyth, Frederick	The Devil's Alternative
Other	1979	Hailey, Arthur	Overload
Other	1979	Le Carre, John	Smiley's People		Part 3 of the Karla trilogy
Other	1979	Ludlum, Robert	The Matarese Circle
Other	1980	Crichton, Michael	Congo
Other	1980	Follett, Ken	The Key to Rebecca
Other	1980	Ludlum, Robert	The Bourne Identity
Other	1981	Collins, Larry & Lapierre, Dominique	The Fifth Horseman
Other	1981	DeMille, Nelson	Cathedral
Other	1982	Follett, Ken	The Man from St. Petersburg
Other	1982	Forsyth, Frederick	[Short Stories] No Comebacks
Other	1983	Cussler, Clive	Pacific Vortex
Other	1984	Clancy, Tom	The Hunt for Red October
Other	1985	Follett, Ken	Lie Down with Lions
Other	1986	Goldman, William	Brothers		Sequel to Marathon Man
Other	1986	Wallace, Irving	The Seventh Secret
Other	1987	Cook, Robin	Outbreak
Other	1987	Crichton, Michael	Sphere
Other	1989	Cook, Robin	Mutation
Other	1990	Crichton, Michael	Jurassic Park
Other	1990	Higgins, Jack	The Eagle Has Flown		Sequel to The Eagle Has Landed
Other	1991	Sheldon, Sidney	The Doomsday Conspiracy
Other	1994	Folsom, Allan	The Day After Tomorrow
Other	1996	Darnton, John	Neanderthal
Other	1997	DeMille, Nelson	Plum Island		Debut of John Corey
Other	1997	Hailey, Arthur	Detective
Other	1998	Baldacci, David	The Simple Truth
Other	1998	Brown, Dan	Digital Fortress
Other	1999	Baldacci, David	Saving Faith
Other	2000	DeMille, Nelson	The Lion's Game
Other	2001	Brown, Dan	Deception Point
Other	2001	Forsyth, Frederick	[Short Stories] The Veteran
Other	2003	Baldacci, David	Split Second		Debut of Sean King, Michelle Maxwell
Other	2003	Forsyth, Frederick	Avenger
Other	2004	Baldacci, David	Hour Game
Other	2005	Baldacci, David	The Camel Club		1st book in Camel Club series
Other	2005	Larsson, Steig	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (originally in Swedish)		Part 1 of the Millennium trilogy
Other	2006	Larsson, Steig	The Girl Who Played with Fire (originally in Swedish)		Part 2 of the Millennium trilogy
Other	2007	Larsson, Steig	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (originally in Swedish)		Part 3 of the Millennium trilogy
Other	2008	Collins, Suzanne	The Hunger Games		Part 1 of the Hunger Games trilogy
Other	2009	Brown, Dan	The Lost Symbol
Other	2009	Collins, Suzanne	Catching Fire		Part 2 of the Hunger Games trilogy
Other	2010	Collins, Suzanne	Mockingjay		Part 3 of the Hunger Games trilogy
Other	2010	DeMille, Nelson	The Lion		Sequel to The Lion's Game
Other	2013	Brown, Dan	Inferno
Other	2017	Brown, Dan	Origin
Category	Year	Author	Book Title	GEM!	Comments	Wikipedia	E-book	Audiobook	More