FEATURED AUTHOR - Brian Terenna is a dystopian, sci-fi, dark fantasy author. He grew up in a land of possibilities. He saw a path to all of them, but could only pick one. Now, he creates worlds, where fantasy is reality and reality is anything you make it. Brian has a strong preference for complex, mysterious, imaginative fiction, with intellectually powerful characters that achieve amazing feats. His favorite authors are Brandon Sanderson, Pierce Brown, Mark Lawrence, and Patrick Rothfuss. And loves dark…
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Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton: This one is a children's book starring the "Famous Five" from Enid Blyton, but it is such a timeless classic that I'm sure even grown-ups will get caught up in it. As it is the first book in the series, it is also a perfect place to start if you have not yet read any of the books about this group of adventurous kids. In this book the children visit their cousin who takes them to an island that belongs to her family. Their adventure begins when a storm uncovers a previously inaccessible shipwreck, which contains a treasure map that appears to indicate that there is a lost treasure hidden away in the castle that is on the island.
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline: I recently watched this one on blu-ray and it inspired me to read the book again, which in my opinion is still better. I think Ready Player One also fits the category of hunting lost treasure, even if in this book the treasure is hidden in a virtual reality game. The treasure in Ready Player One is actually an "Easter egg" that grants the person who finds it the fortune left behind by the creator of the game. What is nice about this particular treasure hunt is that instead of a map with "X" that marks the spot, the clues are all hidden in 1980s pop culture, which is why I recon the book is so popular with people my age. There's definitely a lot of nostalgia involved if you grew up with the references found in this book, but it is still entertaining even if you are younger or older.
A more recent example would be the W.C. Jameson book, Lost Treasures & American History. The author is actually a professional treasure hunter and has first-hand experience with searching for all the buried treasures and lost mines that he describes in the book. From lost Spanish gold in the Sandia mountains to the Benedict Arnold Treasure and the treasure of Sir Francis Drake, there's plenty of good stories in here.
My final choice would be The book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, Etc., Which Are Sought for to This Day by Ralph Delahaye Paine. This book is in the public domain I believe and while it is quite old, it contains more than enough great information about lost or buried treasure to keep you turning the pages. Just don't be surprised if you get the urge to invest in a metal detector and go out looking for your own buried treasure after reading all these books.
1 - The Robert Langdon books by Dan Brown are well known, but still great if you haven't read them or only watched the movies. Read The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, as well as Inferno.
2. The Sigma Force books by James Rollins are also well worth looking into. Start with Sandstorm, which is about a lost city that is buried beneath the desert and then read Map of Bones, which is about a treasure that could reshape the world and involves the Seven Wonders of the World.
3. The Cotton Malone series by Steve Berry feature some great books, with my favorite being the second one, The Alexandria Link. It's about a elite operative who retires and makes a living as a rare-book seller, but his peaceful life is shattered when his son is kidnapped and his shop burned down by someone who wants him to find the lost Library of Alexandria.