Reading Essentials: 322 books

Told with the lilt and swing of the Irish and with gusto and joy in living, with a hero made for those who like them relentless in hate and love, this is an enchanting glamorous romance, Gaelic to the core, high adventure, sheer charm!

The National Portrait Gallery is the setting for this delightful mystery of theft and fraud. A painter copies diligently from a watercolour one morning when an enigmatic musician suddenly appears and causes mayhem with his playing different songs. But while the curator follows him around trying to...

While visiting Tarzan in his African jungle home, an American girl falls into the most astonishing science-fiction adventure of all. By a quirk in Time, a white-skinned savage from the Stone Age is thrust forward to modern days long enough to meet her and bring her back to his own world of cave people,...

Dr Oldfield finds himself caught one night in a police hunt. When he stumbles upon a policeman struck dead by an unknown assailant, Oldfield determines to piece together what happened. What unravels is a story of ingenious theft involving diamonds and the remains of an artist’s body found in a kiln....

Judge William Barber begins his usually uneventful tour of England's Southern Circuit, but when he receives a threatening note and becomes the victim of several strange mishaps, attorney Francis Pettigrew starts investigating.

It is a dark and very stormy night as the novel opens, for a terrible gale howls around the professor's rambling but solidly built house, twelve miles from the nearest village. The entire countryside is gripped in terror after local girls have been murdered, and once darkness falls few people venture...

Part One of this book is devoted to the history of New Salem. It tells who the inhabitants were, how they lived, and how they looked on life, giving Lincoln faith in people and himself. In Part Two, Lincoln's activities are discussed, and the meaning of the New Salem years in his development is appraised,...

This Tom Corbett Space Cadet story follows the adventures of Tom and his friend Roger as they train to be members of the Solar Guard. The stories center around the academy, the bunkroom and their training ship Polaris. Their exciting adventures take them to alien worlds in our galaxy and beyond!

A science-fiction adventure novel from the author of The Once and Future King, The Master involves two children, Judy and Nicky, and their dog Jokey, who are stranded on an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. They find that it is hollow and inhabited by a mysterious 157-year-old person who aims to take over the world.

Fletcher Pratt's fantasy classic. "The Well Of The Unicorn is one of the finest novels in the field of heroic fantasy."-- L. Sprague de Camp.

An examination of the place of the martial arts in Japanese culture includes discussions of the history, philosophy, and techniques of judo, karate, wrestling, and fencing.

Part One of this book is devoted to the history of New Salem. It tells who the inhabitants were, how they lived, and how they looked on life, giving Lincoln faith in people and himself. In Part Two, Lincoln's activities are discussed, and the meaning of the New Salem years in his development is appraised,...

The Lost King tells the story of Louis XVII – the French royal who officially died at the age of ten but, as legend has it, escaped to foreign lands where he lived to an old age. Sabatini breathes life into these age-old myths, creating a story of passion, revenge and betrayal. He tells of how the...

The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece return to Earth, with all their awesome powers intact! Earth is transformed almost overnight. No more sexual prudery. War on any scale is outlawed, along with other unexpected changes you'll have to read to believe!