Best Books About Journeys and Quests

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Fiction that takes the reader on fabulous trips around the world, underground, across the sea, and into space.
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
107,159 members
1,296 reviews
½ 4.3
11 Members
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The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
56,810 members
496 reviews
½ 4.5
11 Members
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
26,276 members
432 reviews
½ 3.6
9 Members
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,250 members
595 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
40,731 members
487 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
17,499 members
263 reviews
½ 3.7
9 Members
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Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,574 members
470 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,414 members
1,038 reviews
4
8 Members
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
26,551 members
478 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams
27,859 members
512 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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11
To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
7,292 members
319 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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12
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
24,995 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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13
Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
8,645 members
327 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]
by Jonathan Swift
411 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
7 Members
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15
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,399 members
423 reviews
½ 3.6
6 Members
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
20,243 members
471 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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17
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
18,830 members
454 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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The Odyssey
by Homer
62,238 members
521 reviews
4
5 Members
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne
645 members
7 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,216 members
1,049 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
38,850 members
516 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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22
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C. S. Lewis
29,873 members
297 reviews
4
6 Members
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23
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
21,283 members
283 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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24
The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
13,832 members
250 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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25
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
41,581 members
618 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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26
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
23,631 members
386 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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27
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,517 members
229 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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28
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
18,338 members
434 reviews
4
5 Members
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29
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
34,903 members
959 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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30
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,921 members
167 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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31
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
40,060 members
791 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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32
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
30,709 members
493 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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33
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
10,182 members
215 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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34
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
4,454 members
109 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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36
Bridge of Birds
by Barry Hughart
2,692 members
101 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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37
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
43,849 members
802 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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38
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
20,123 members
485 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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39
Crusade in Jeans
by Thea Beckman
1,127 members
39 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
Prairie Spring: A Journey Into the Heart of a Season
by Pete Dunne
49 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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41
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,409 members
317 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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42
A Maze Of Stars
by John Brunner
286 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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43
Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
24,029 members
595 reviews
4
4 Members
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44
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
12,544 members
247 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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45
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Paul Theroux
2,025 members
33 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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46
Creation: A Novel {restored}
by Gore Vidal
879 members
17 reviews
4
3 Members
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47
The Farthest Shore
by Ursula K. Le Guin
8,882 members
135 reviews
4
3 Members
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48
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
20,153 members
298 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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49
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,430 members
132 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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50
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Marvel Illustrated)
by Eric Shanower
709 members
28 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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51
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,541 members
717 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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52
Huntingtower
by John Buchan
423 members
10 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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53
The Space Trilogy
by C. S. Lewis
3,312 members
23 reviews
4
2 Members
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54
The Long Earth
by Terry Pratchett
4,615 members
218 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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55
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,616 members
228 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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56
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
45,479 members
1,123 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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57
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,972 members
205 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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58
Glory Road
by Robert A. Heinlein
3,896 members
56 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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59
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
15,141 members
247 reviews
4
2 Members
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60
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
10,384 members
273 reviews
4
2 Members
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61
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
3,998 members
91 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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62
Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
10,822 members
223 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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63
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
by Michael Chabon
3,114 members
152 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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64
Stuart Little
by E. B. White
18,326 members
157 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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65
Firestarter
by Stephen King
10,954 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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66
A Search for the King
by Gore Vidal
217 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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67
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
8,047 members
57 reviews
3.9
Member
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68
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
7,734 members
157 reviews
4
Member
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69
The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly
2,296 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
EGBERTINA
70
Hawk Quest
by Robert Lyndon
242 members
13 reviews
4.1
Member
Roro8
71
The African Equation
by Yasmina Khadra
124 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
72
Now You See It...
by Teresa Roblin
5 members
1 review
3
Member
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73
Desperation
by Stephen King
10,941 members
114 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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74
The Rolling Stones
by Robert A. Heinlein
2,338 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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75
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
15,656 members
211 reviews
4
2 Members
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76
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers
7,598 members
440 reviews
4
2 Members
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77
The Blue Sword
by Robin McKinley
6,689 members
149 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
78
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts
by Douglas Adams
4,613 members
47 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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79
The Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan
23,351 members
402 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
80
The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite De Angeli
6,981 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
EGBERTINA
81
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
460 members
37 reviews
4
Member
dara85
82
Marco Polo and The Sleeping Beauty
by Avram Davidson
85 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
83
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
3,467 members
155 reviews
4
Member
Roro8
84
River of Smoke
by Amitav Ghosh
1,153 members
57 reviews
3.9
Member
Roro8
85
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
31,462 members
1,215 reviews
4.1
Member
Roro8
86
Just So Happens
by Fumio Obata
216 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
87
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
6,270 members
181 reviews
4
Member
Nero56
88
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
44,200 members
1,127 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
merrystar
89
The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
8,504 members
436 reviews
4.1
Member
msjudy
90
The Beach
by Alex Garland
5,358 members
94 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
MissBrangwen
91
Migrations
by Charlotte McConaghy
1,704 members
107 reviews
4.1
Member
EMS_24
92
The Captain of the "Polestar" [short story]
by Arthur Conan Doyle
94 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
93
Journey to Fusang
by William Sanders
44 members
3.9
Member
hipdeep
94
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,793 members
1,509 reviews
4.1
Member
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95
Voyager
by Diana Gabaldon
13,557 members
226 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
msjudy
96
The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson
6,817 members
81 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
97
Roverandom
by J. R. R. Tolkien
2,794 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
MissBrangwen
98
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
by Walter Moers
3,136 members
85 reviews
4.1
Member
MissBrangwen
99
Lord Valentine's Castle
by Robert Silverberg
2,632 members
39 reviews
3.8
Member
msjudy
100
Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
1,272 members
96 reviews
4
Member
msjudy