Reading Essentials: 322 books

Jed Cochrane is about to take off on man's first interstellar voyage. A thrilling tale of a space ship's voyage to the moon and beyond. 

For the first time in one volume: The Devil to Pay was also written for the Canterbury Festival and was based on the Faust legend. The Just Vengeance was written for the Lichfield Cathedral Festival in 1946. The plot involves around an Airman who has been shot down. His spirit returns to his home...

From Hugo-winning novelist Mark Clifton... Not long after the colonists landed on the uninhabited planet, every human made artifact - ship communicators, tools - disappeared! Even their clothes! Here is an enthralling science alien planet puzzle...

William Boyce, in whose veins flows the blood of crusaders, goes on the quest of a lost memory and a mysterious woman in an odd clime where cities move and time stands motionless! Another classic novel from SF master, Henry Kuttner.

Enter the world of wartime spies and the thrilling secrets of contra espionage efforts made by Germany and England. This is one of Oppenheim's best thrillers!

Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows which Lois, needless to say, invariably won. More than one person at Latter End found themselves stretched to the limit by Lois and her bullying, and...

The fascinating story of a polar bear and her search for her two cubs, this is also a story of the snowbound Arctic and of the surprising number of birds and animals that live in its inhospitable wastes.  Kalak was a polar bear whose ferocity and cunning had convinced the Eskimos that she...

A worldwide nuclear war is launched by accident! A handful of survivors hope for a miracle. But they think they are doomed. How does a person live when he knows he is going to die? Some carry on as usual - a few destroy themseves in a last mad fling at life. "The most important novel of the Atomic Age." -- Washington Post.

Do you love mystery stories, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories and those of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie? Do you ever yearn to be a good writer of mysteries, or just like to read them and know about how they're written? Carolyn Wells was a prolific author of mystery novels. In this detailed...

One of the best novels by Rawlings, author of The Yearling. It is a poignant tale about a boy who feels unwanted as his mother is distracted with missing his absent brother.

Fact and fancy are the irresistible blend that characterizes these delightful tales of Florida’s backwoods... and the Florida Crackers - the zany but lovable folks who populated the remote hamlet that was Marjorie Rawlings’ home. With a gift for humor and a venerable ear for dialect comes the author’s personal accounts of the people, scenery and wildlife of Cross Creek.

He was Sean, a champion, the biggest, handsomest son of Big Red, the famous Irish setter. Bursting with hunting instincts, he fretted under his pampered kennel life, and longed for the wilds. Then suddenly his life changed. He found himself on his own in the Wintapi wilderness, lost, his human protectors...

Woods runners, rivermen, long hunters, scouts, fur traders and others who dressed in buckskin made the paths that opened the Americas through successive barriers of forest, prairie and mountain. Three centuries of exploration opened America from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Pacific.

Some day, John Belden told himself, he would be a forest ranger. His chance came unexpectedly as a one-year substitute in the Alleghany back country. It is the story of a nineteen-year-old boy’s finding himself and learning that success is not just heroics, but constantly doing your best.