Action & Adventure

Five Children and It

by E. Nesbit Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

The Shadow of Black Wings

by James Calbraith Read by James Calbraith 4.3
It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"All children, except one, grow up,” begins J. M. Barrie's most famous novel. Barrie then proceeds to tell the story of that one extrao…

Rangy Pete

by Guy Morton Read by Grant Hurlock 4.5
Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of th…

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into …

Secret of the Ninth Planet

by Donald A. Wollheim Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.2
An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun, possible causing the sun to nova within tw…

The Cruise of the Esmeralda

by Harry Collingwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is…

Storm Over Warlock

by Andre Norton Read by Andre Norton 4.4
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that …

The Dead Secret

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins explores the heavy burden of secrets and the choices that shape our lives. At the heart of the story is Sa…

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

Doctor Ox's Experiment

by Jules Verne Read by Alan Winterrowd 4
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves a…

The Doings of Raffles Haw

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Patrick Wells 4.5
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beau…

The Mystery Of Cloomber

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.1
This novel is written by the author of, among other novels, the Stories of Sherlock Holmes. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, who trie…

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

The Mucker

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Joseph DeNoia 4.2
Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to o…

Under the Andes

by Rex Stout Read by Roger Melin 4
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…

The Adventures of Peter Cottontail

by Thornton W. Burgess Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the story of Peter Rabbit, a mischievous, but cautious, lagomorph who lives in the Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit begins his adventures…

Trail's End

by George W. Ogden Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get…

Lord Tony's Wife

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of sus…

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