18 books like Tarzan of the Apes

What to read after Tarzan of the Apes — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Watership Down Richard Adams · 1972 · ★ 4.1 · 443p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—soon to be a BBC and Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved… Shares: Adventure

Tarzan the Untamed (Book #7) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1920 · ★ 4.3 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:Hauptmann Fritz Schneider trudged wearily through the somber aisles of the dark forest. Sweat rolled down his bullet head and stood upon his heavy jowls and bull neck. His lieutenant marched beside him while Underlieutenant von Goss brought up the rear, following with a handful of askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters whom the black soldiers, following the example of their… Shares: Tarzan, Africa, Classic Literature, Adventure

Tarzan the Terrible (#8) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1921 · ★ 4.5 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Tarzan's search for Jane takes him to the warlike Pal-U-Don. Shares: Tarzan, Africa, Classic Literature, Adventure

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1916 · ★ 3.9 · 372p · ≈ 12h · Challenging From the book:Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a… Shares: Tarzan, Africa, Classic Literature, Adventure

The Beasts of Tarzan (Classic Ace SF, F-203) Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1914 · ★ 3.7 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The Beasts of Tarzan, the third book in the Tarzan series, was first published in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914. It was later published as a novel in 1916. Tarzan’s old enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, escapes prison and plans his revenge by kidnapping the Tarzan’s son, the heir of Greystoke. He also captures Tarzan and Jane, and takes them all back to Africa, where he strands the Ape-man on an… Shares: Tarzan, Africa, Classic Literature, Adventure

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1915 · ★ 3.8 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Paulvitch still lived and sought vengeance against Tarzan. As part of his plot, he lured Tarzan's young son away from London. But the boy escaped, with the aid of the great ape Akut. They fled to the savage African jungles where Tarzan had been reared. There the civilized boy had to learn to meet the great beasts and face the dangers only his father had ever conquered. But he grew in time into… Shares: Tarzan, Classic Literature, Adventure

Lost Face (collection) Jack London · 1910 · ★ 4.0 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A short story collection first published in 1910: Lost Face Trust To Build a Fire That Spot Flush of Gold The Passing of Marcus O'Brien The Wit of Porportuk Shares: American Adventure stories, Adventure

The Triumph of the Sun Wilbur Smith · 2005 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate BOOK 5 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES, BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror A FEARSOME ENEMY. A CITY UNDER SIEGE. In the burning heat of the Sudanese sun, the city of Khartoum is… Shares: Africa, British

Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim · 1898 · ★ 3.7 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Told in a series of diary entries, Elizabeth and Her German Garden recounts one year in the life of an Englishwoman determined to revitalize the neglected garden of their German estate. It is in the process of laying out flower beds, ordering rose varietals, and supervising the planting that she finds peace and escape from her three young children (referred to simply as the April, May, and June… Shares: British in fiction, British

A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 1905 · ★ 3.9 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son… Shares: British in fiction, British, Historical Fiction

Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene · 1969 · ★ 3.9 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Greeneland has been described often as a land bleak and severe. A whisky priest dies in one village, a self-hunted man lives with lepers in another. But Greeneland has its summer regions, and in the sunlight everything looks a bit different. Here Aunt Augusta travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of a doggie's church, the CIA, man obsessed by statistics and his hippie… Shares: British in fiction, British, Adventure

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped the English defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his ruthless half-brother and seeks refuge in the Middle East, where he takes on a new role as a Barbary pirate. Shares: Africa, British, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Men of Men Wilbur Smith · 1981 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This vivid historical novel is the second of the Ballantyne sequence of four books about the origins of Rhodesia and its later violent transformation into Zimbabwe. During the reign of Queen Victoria Englishmen answering the call of Empire voyaged out to take possession of half their known world. Their leaders were such men as Cecil Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson and Zouga Ballantyne. Some of… Shares: Africa, Adventure

The Camelot Chronicles Michael Ashley · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 409p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 18 tales of Arthur and his court have been retold in contemporary language in this wonderful collection. Any reader interested in the timeless legends of King Arthur and the days of Camelot will take pleasure in these unique tales. Features such best-selling authors as Jane Yolen, P.G. Wodehouse and Phyllis Ann Karr. Shares: American Adventure stories, American Fantasy fiction, Historical Fiction

Allan and the Holy Flower H. Rider Haggard · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Challenging I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character that I think its details should not be lost. At least I will set them down, and if in the after days anyone cares to publish them, well he is at liberty to do… Shares: Africa, Classic Literature, Adventure

Tuareg Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa · 1981 · ★ 4.3 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Los tuareg constituyen un pueblo altivo cuyo código moral difiere del de los árabes. Auténticos hijos del desierto, los tuareg no tienen rival en cuanto a sobrevivir en las condiciones más adversas. El noble inmouchar Gacel Sayah, protagonista de esta novela, es amo absoluto de una infinita extensión de desierto. Cierto día llegan al campamento dos fugitivos procedentes del norte, y el inmouchar,… Shares: Africa, Adventure

The African Queen C. S. Forester · 1935 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Challenging English missionary's sister enlists aid of mechanic in blowing up German gunboat on African lake. Shares: Africa, British

Mr. Munchausen John Kendrick Bangs · 1901 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some further adventures of this traveler and veracious relator of merry tales. There are about a dozen of these tales, and, judging by Mr. Bangs' recital of them, the Baron's adventures on… Shares: American Adventure stories, American Fantasy fiction, Adventure

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