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Books like Treasure Island

12 books with a reading profile close to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.

1

The Ransom of Red Chief

by O. Henry

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

The story follows Bill and Sam, two small-time con artists who kidnap Johnny, the ten-year-old son of a prominent citizen in Alabama, to fund a real estate scam.
2

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

In 1872 London, the stoic Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in exactly eighty days.
3

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

Bilbo Baggins, a quiet hobbit who prefers the safety of his underground home, is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a party of thirteen dwarves to serve as a professional thief.
4

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emmuska Orczy

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, narrative

Set during the Reign of Terror in 1792, the plot follows a mysterious English vigilante known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, who leads a secret society to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine.
5

Five Weeks in a Balloon

by Jules Verne

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

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6

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, D. K. Swan

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

The story follows Robinson Crusoe, a mariner from York who survives a catastrophic shipwreck to find himself the sole inhabitant of a remote tropical island.
7

Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon

by Matt Fraction

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

When he is not fighting alongside the Avengers, Clint Barton spends his time protecting a Brooklyn apartment building from a local organized crime syndicate known as the "Tracksuit Mafia." This collection follows Barton…
8

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

by Hajime Isayama

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

The narrative begins inside a walled civilization where the last remnants of humanity hide from Titans, towering humanoid creatures that consume people without apparent reason.
9

Le Petit Nicolas

by René Goscinny

Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Nicolas is a young schoolboy living in 1950s France.
10

Flush

by Carl Hiaasen

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, narrative

Noah Underwood's father is in jail for sinking a casino boat, the Coral Queen, which he says is dumping raw sewage into the waters of the Florida Keys.
11

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

by Agatha Christie

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, accessible

Bobby Jones, the son of a vicar, discovers a dying man at the bottom of a cliff while playing golf in Wales.
12

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative

In medieval Nottinghamshire, young Robin Hood becomes an outlaw after killing a royal deer and an abusive forester in self-defense.

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