If you like your books with lots of action then this is the list for you: this is a selection of spy, action, adventure and survival stories.

Last updated September 2021

• The electric kingdom / Arnold, David
• The greed / Bergstrom, Scott
• An assassin’s guide to love and treason / Boecker, Virginia
• Etiquette and espionage (series) / Carriger, Gail
• I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you (series) / Carter, Ally
• The love interest / Dietrich, Cale
• The continent / Drake, Keira
• The cut out (series) / Heath, Jack
• Stormbreaker (series) / Horowitz, Anthony
• Dark shores (series) / Jensen, Danielle
• Nowhere on earth / Lake, Nick
• Flight of the fantail / Matuku, Steph (NZ author)
• The recruit (series) / Muchamore, Robert
• Cloud and Wallfish / Nesbet, Anne
• The call (series) / Ó Guilin, Peadar
• The loop (series) / Oliver, Ben
• War girls / Onyebuchi, Tochi
• Hawk / Patterson, James
• Hatchet (series) / Paulsen, Gary
• Across a star-swept sea / Peterfreund, Diana
• White rabbit, red wolf / Pollock, Tom
• Welcome to New York, Alyssa / Powell, Sarah (NZ author)
• Rebel spy / Rossi, Veronica
• Siege (series) / Ryan, Chris
• Dry / Shusterman, Neal
• The outlaws Scarlett & Browne : being an account of their daring exploits and audacious crimes / Stroud, Jonathan
• Cuz / Van der Laarse, Liz (NZ author)
• Higher Institute of Villainous Education (series) / Walden, Mark
• Code name Verity / Wein, Elizabeth
• The erasure initiative / Wilkinson, Lili
• The extinction trials (series) / Wilson, S. M.
• Fable (series) / Young, Adrienne
• When we are invisible / Zorn, Claire