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Free Public Domain High Action Books - Includes Some Audiobooks!

Feel the need for a high adventure book? These are all books you can read for free! Since they are public domain your local library or book swap will probably have a copy, or you can read / listen online as well. From classic tales of knights to aliens, pirates and everything in between many of these novels have been adapted into action flicks. 

In no particular order:

  • Knights from King Arthur's court jousting

    In the Court of King Arthur

  • The war of the worlds cover

    The War of the Worlds

  • Sherlock Holmes Cover

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  • Peter and Wendy

    Peter and Wendy

    • by J. M. Barrie
    • published 1904
    • setting: Edwardian London and Neverland
    • Read it for Free

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau

  • The Invisible Man

  • Public domain adventure book cover for Simon the Coldheart

    Simon the Coldheart

  • A Princess of Mars Book Cover

    A Princess of Mars

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  • Illustration from Robin Hood

    Robin Hood

    • by Paul Creswick
    • published 1917
    • setting: Sherwood Forest, England
    • Read it for Free
  • Antique book cover of the Iliad

    The Iliad

  • The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    • by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
    • published 1844
    • setting: France 19th century
    • Read it for Free
  • Kidnapped Book Cover

    Kidnapped

  • Beowulf Book Cover

    The Story of Beowulf

    • by Ernest J. B. Kirtlan
    • published: ~1000
    • setting: Scandinavia 500AD
    • Read it for Free
  • Treasure Island Book cover

    Treasure Island

    • by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • published: 1882
    • setting: 18th century high seas
    • Read it for Free

  • Jungle Tales of Tarzan

  • The count of monte cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    • by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
    • published 1846
    • setting: France, Italy between 1815-1839
    • Read it for Free
  • Robinson_Crusoe_book_cover_f609c8a2-72af-41b3-98a5-9d5f2bc251a8

    Robinson Crusoe

  • Treasure of Kings

    • by Charles Gilson
    • published: early 20th century
    • setting: Inca Kingdom
    • Read it for Free
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    • by Joseph Conrad
    • published 1899
    • setting: Belgian Congo, late 19th century
    • Read it for Free
  • Pellucidar Book Cover

    Pellucidar

    • by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • published 1915
    • setting: prehistoric inner world
    • Read it for Free
  • The Call of the Wild cover

    The Call of the Wild

  • White Fang book cover

    White Fang

    • by Jack London
    • published 1906
    • setting: Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories
    • Read it for Free
  • Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    • by James Fenimore Cooper
    • published 1912
    • setting North America, 19th Century
    • Read it for Free
  • Tarzan of the Apes cover

    Tarzan of the Apes

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