Choose Your Own Adventure

This article is about the trademarked book series. For the genre, see Gamebook. For the TV series, see Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure.
Not to be confused with You Decide on the Adventure.
Choose Your Own Adventure
The Cave of Time by Edward Packard, the first book in the series
Cover artistPaul Granger
LanguageEnglish
GenreGamebook
PublisherBantam Books
Published1979–1998 (original series)
Media typePrint
No. of books184 (original series) (List of books)

Choose Your Own Adventure is a children's gamebook series written in second person, where the reader assumes the protagonist's role and thereby makes choices determining the plot. The series was based upon a concept created by Edward Packard and originally published by Constance Cappel's and R. A. Montgomery's Vermont Crossroads Press as the "Adventures of You" series, starting with Packard's Sugarcane Island in 1976.

Choose Your Own Adventure, as published by Bantam Books, was one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998. The series has been translated into 40 languages. When Bantam, now owned by Random House, allowed the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark to lapse, the series was relaunched by Chooseco. Chooseco will begin to reissue titles by Packard in August of 2025.

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