Reading Quest is back for 2025! Looking for reading inspiration? We’re recommending some of our favourite adventure books for gamers which you can read on your quest this summer – all free to borrow with your library card!

Reading Quest starts on 19 July. You can sign up at any library. Find out more about Reading Quest.

Book cover of Adventure on the Horizon

Pokémon: Adventure on the Horizon

 

Join Liko and her very first partner Pokémon Sprigatito in an exciting illustrated adventure!

Liko is excited to meet her very first partner Pokémon, Sprigatito. It’s so cute! But the pair have trouble bonding. When a suspicious stranger shows up looking for Liko, can she and Sprigatito start working together to get away from trouble?

Borrow Adventure on the Horizon

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Pokémon: Legendary and Mythical Handbook

Simcha Whitehill

Fans everywhere are fascinated by Legendary and Mythical Pokemon! This updated guidebook features the unique and mysterious Paldea region Pokémon from the newest hit games for Nintendo Switch, Scarlet & Violet.

Discover the origins of the most fascinating and unusual Pokémon! You’ll get the scoop on Legendary and Mythical Pokémon from every known region in the Pokémon world. It’s the insider’s guide to the rarest and most powerful known Pokémon.

Borrow Legendary and Mythical Handbook

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Dragon Club: Time to Party

Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma

Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master of her after-school club, creating a world with magic and epic battles with adventure around every corner. She’s always felt at home in her game, but now – with new members and new plotlines – her world has gotten more complicated than ever. It doesn’t help when Olivia’s older sister, Lu, comes home from college and brushes off all Olivia’s hard work, telling her to get real.

A seed of doubt is planted, and suddenly the colourful world of her game starts to fade around her. Will Olivia be able to keep everything from changing, or will the party fall apart?

Borrow Time to Party

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Behold!: A Search and Find Adventure

Susie Raw

Behold the Forgotten Realms in all its glory!

Join the journey of Myopus the All-Seeing, an ageing beholder who is looking for a keen-eyed apprentice to help him find a mischievous band of monsters carousing through the land. From the snowy tundra of the Icewind Dale, to the cosmopolitan streets of Neverwinter and Baldur’s gate, readers will visit ten hectic locations in the Forgotten Realms, each of them with dozens of heroes, villains, monsters and more to spot.

Borrow Behold!

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Crack in the Code!

Nick Eliopulos

If you enjoyed A Minecraft Movie, you’ll love this series!

Join Morgan, Ash, Harper, Po, Jodi and Theo as they return for another adventure in the world of Minecraft. Someone – or something – has turned the Evoker King to stone. Do the gang have what it takes to solve the mystery and return the Evoker King to normal? Theo’s coding skills might just be what the gang need, but does he have what it takes to be a part of the team or will his meddling put a crack in the code that none of them will survive?

Borrow Crack in the Code

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Minecraft Magical Bite-Size Builds

 

Learn how to build 20 enchanting mini-builds in Minecraft, with step-by-step instructions. Add some magic to your Overworld with these 20 new mini-projects, from mermaid lagoons and genie lamps to dragons’ lairs and enchanting towers. There’s even a giant magician’s hat that spawns rabbits!

With illustrated step-by-step instructions and tips throughout, this book will have you creating loads of magical builds to impress your friends with.

Borrow Minecraft Magical Bite-Size Builds

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League of Thieves

Sarah Crofton

Prepare for death-defying rooftop chases, shadowy enemies and fiendish picture puzzles in this thrilling adventure gamebook where the hero of the story is YOU.

As a member of the League of Thieves you’re used to plenty of danger and mystery, but your most perilous mission yet is about to begin. Can you succeed where all others have failed and break into the infamous Castle Flaggstone to rescue your friend, steal a priceless treasure and uncover an ancient secret?

With a fun dice-based combat system, beautifully illustrated puzzles to solve and a story full of twists and turns, this interactive adventure will have you gripped from beginning to end.

Borrow League of Thieves

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The Transylvanian Express

Gareth P. Jones and Louise Foreshaw

Welcome to Haventry, a town where the ordinary and extraordinary collide! With ghosts, werewolves and zombies living side by side, trouble is always brewing. And when a fiendish crime is committed, ‘YOU’ are the detective in charge of the case. YOU and your yeti boss Klaus are headed to Castle Ursprung, home of the infamous vampire Count Fledermaus.

But before you get there, you have a mystery to solve: Night Mayor Franklefink has vanished from the train. Someone onboard must have played a role in his disappearance but who has the strongest motive? YOU decide!

Borrow The Transylvanian Express

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