Reading Essentials: 322 books

A story of high adventure, of shifting loyalties, of a long road to revenge, of conflict between city states, and of the love of a lovely lady who rescues the captain's nephew when he flees the fleet, and nurses him through the Plague. 

The French Revolution is well under way when Quentin de Morlaix, already sympathetic to these disenfranchised French aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to the Revolution. He sets off for France, and enters a life of confusion, mystery and suspense - and bloody execution.

A poignant story of a young Navajo boy's spiritual odyssey and coming of age as a medicine man provides a vivid portrait of the beliefs, traditions, and lifestyle of the Navajo people. Winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal.

Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world.

Beau Sabreur is the sequel to *Beau Geste. *It focuses on the adventures of Major De Beaujolais, an officer in the French Foreign Legion.

The Paratime Police patrol the vast number of alternate time-dimensions. Their aim is to keep the existence of the alternate Earths a secret and prevent these Earths from mixing and destroying each other. But the Time Police make mistakes sometimes, and they make a big one when a seemingly...

This sequel novel, set in January and February 1793, follows on from "The Scarlet Pimpernel". The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has disguised themselves as a group of shabby second-rate musicians, in order to save an innocent family from death. But Citizen Chauvelin is hot on their heels,...

A novel filled with living characters and the clash of swords and laid in the picturesque fifteenth century. At the age of twenty-eight, Ser Colombino had become one of the great mercenary captains of the day, his fame spreading across the length and breadth of Italy. But, soldier of fortune...

The Nature of a Crime is likely influenced by major events from the life of Joseph Conrad, most notably his suicide attempt made at the age of 20. In the novel, the narrator finds himself falling deeper into depression as a result of his mishandling of a close friend's trust fund, and is eventually...

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime... but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself - and stay alive - is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years. Can Barrett survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear his name?

This is the story of Andrew, a handsome artist living with his beautiful wife. Andrew witnesses a man being shot one night by two masked assailants and on the advice of his wife, decides to remain silent about what he has seen. But when a meeting with his cousin Ronald proves to be fatal, Andrew finds...

A thrilling tale of suspense centering around a blonde girl and a black horse during the invasion of Europe by Attila the Hun!

Land on Dara? One might as well commit suicide! Untouchable, like the Darans - that's what they'd call Calhoun if he broke the quarantine. And they'd wipe him out on sight. But Dara needed him and that was the kind of challenge this Interstellar Med Serviceman would never dodge.

Reaching for the Stars... Ever since ancient man first gazed in wonder at the stars, humanity has dreamed of traveling to outer space. Space Platform tells the story of one man's first step into outer space... of the difficulties and dangers of reaching for the stars. It is also an exciting adventure to make man's age old dream of space travel come true!