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universe100 books1912

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
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Start with Tarzan of the Apes →

includes Tarzan, The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, The Tarzan Trilogy, Tarzan and the Martian Legion, Tarzan's Africa / Opar / Khokarsa

Doc SavageUniverse

universe269 books1933

Adventure, set in our world.

“On the eighty-sixth floor of a Manhattan skyscraper waits a man built for the impossible.”
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Start with The Perfect Assassin →

includes Doc Savage omnibuses, Doc Savage radio scripts, The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage, Doc Savage novels, Doc Savage (Nostalgia Ventures reprints), Doc Savage (Patterson and Sitts), The Wild Adventures of Pat Savage

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

The Lad and the LionNovel

Edgar Rice Burroughsstandalone novel1938

About survival.

“The text was apparently expanded for book publication, as certain incidentals of the story reflect the political situation of Europe in the late 1930s rather than the mid-1910s.”
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Doctor DolittleSeries

series27 books1920

Fantasy, whimsical in tone.

“Lofting wrote twelve novels between 1920 and 1936, beginning with The Story of Doctor Dolittle, with two further story collections published after his 1947 death.”
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Start with The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts →

Matt CruseSeries

series3 books2004

About coming of age.

“Airborn opens Kenneth Oppel's trilogy with Matt Cruse, a cabin boy aboard a transoceanic passenger airship, who joins a search for a legendary flying creature whose existence no one can prove.”
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Start with Airborn →

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