Choose Your Own Adventure

The Choose Your Own Adventure book series, which was first released in 1979, had an explosion in popularity among kids in the 1980s, when it became a bestseller. The 184 novels in the series, which was first published by R.A. Montgomery, were written by 30 different authors. The books in the series sold 250 million copies before falling out of print in 1999.

In the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's game books, the reader assumes the position of the protagonist and makes decisions that affect the actions of the main character and the resolution of the tale. Each story is told from a second-person point of view. The "Adventures of You" series, which began with Packard's Sugarcane Island in 1976, was based on an idea developed by Edward Packard and was published by Constance Cappel and R. A. Montgomery's Vermont Crossroads Press.

The Choose Your Own Adventure books were renowned for their ground-breaking design, which let readers choose what happened to the book's protagonists. The book's plot and conclusion would change according to the reader's decision. Sometimes the main character would gain from the reader's decision. In other cases, the reader could condemn the character to an unfortunate outcome.

Genre: Children book
Published: 1979–1998 (original series)
No. of books: 184 (original series)