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Action

The action genre is characterized by more emphasis on exciting action sequences than on character development or story-telling. That is not to say that the action-adventure story does not have memorable characters or circumstances, however. Generally heroes are seen as larger than life, and many times they are prime examples of the epic hero archetype.

Action can also be known as Action-Adventure depending on criteria met. This applies to all age groups, especially popular in Middle Grade adventure stories and adult fiction with spy or adventure leads.

Also see Adventure.
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It Had to Be You
The Confidence Games
The Bang-Bang Sisters
Desperation Reef
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Wonder Woman, Vol. 1: Outlaw
Hidden in the Night (Missing in Alaska, #3)
Beneath a Crescent Shadow (The Balkan Legends, #1)
Fiasco (Uncharted Hearts, #2)
The King's Ransom (The Recovery Agent #2)
The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1
Barda
Viktor (Carriage House, #1)
The Traitor’s Gold (Joe Mason #5)
Something is Killing the Children #38
Beautiful Beast (Perfectly Imperfect: Mafia Legacy, #1)
A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)
The Body in the Backyard (Riley Thorn, #4)
Don’t Forget to Write
Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)
Shadow & Storms (The Legends of Thezmarr, #4)
The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)
A Clean Kill (Garrett Mann, #1)
Beijing Payback
Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)
Darkness Rising (Darkness, #8)
Bad River (Arliss Cutter, #6)
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Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
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2,325 books — 2,970 voters
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3,307 books — 2,255 voters

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737 books — 416 voters
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829 books — 1,140 voters

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Beach Reads - Mysteries & Thrillers
1,872 books — 1,808 voters

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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

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