Reading Essentials: 322 books

Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature—himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them . . . a mystery.” So thinks the Reverend Dodd—vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen and a reader of detective novels—when an...

Young Jeff takes to the open road as an itinerant peddler in Pennsylvania in a series of adventures with his dog...

Clifford Sawyer, investigating ghosts in a mine, finds ancient beings from another world - and gets swept up in a titanic struggle between for control of a parallel dimension!

In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the world he wants. Enter the legendary Dr John Thorndyke, physician and lawyer, the dean of scientific detection, who seems to know far too much about what Mr. Pottermack did on a night when there was nobody around to see him.

Zane Grey is at his best in this story of the building of the Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam). It shows an excellent depiction of early day Las Vegas and the people who built the dam. Of course there is also the damsel in distress and the hero who gives up all to start his life anew. 

William the Great demi-god's life. From his youth as a handsome young prince who chose books over beautiful women. Who ordered bloody massacres, as a general who battled his was into the unknown, the ascetic who brought richness and luxury to his people, the despot who altered history, the heir to a kingdom no mortal had ever before dared to claim. 3 parts and 22 chapters.

The acclaimed novel of love and courage. An intolerant Governor sets off a series of tragic events in an idyllic Pacific paradise, disrupting the peaceful lives of newlywed islanders Terangi and Marama in this tale of brave and beautiful people... of a young outlaw and his sensuous bride... of survival,...

Lucie Mott must solve ten cases, including finding a missing woman locked in her own house and recognizing that an apparently philandering husband was actually out thieving! Add to this her romance with a supposed criminal known as Violet Joe with whom she immediately falls in love. 

Featuring Arcot, Wade and Morey, the Three Gadgeteers of space science. The threesome put together a faster-than-light spaceship and find fugitive planets, the frozen cemetary-world of a lost race, and a knock-down drag-out interplanetary war in another galaxy!

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blast off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies. World after world is visited, secret after secret unleashed, and turned to mighty weapons...

Centering around a group of lively guests trapped in a Swiss hotel at the outbreak of the First World War, including a honeymooning couple, this Pulitzer Prize winning indictment of war and fanatical nationalism before World War II premiered on Broadway and ran for 300 performances.

Galactic Colonization? Can such pioneers adjust to the new environment ready for civilization, industrialization and eventual assimilation into the rapidly evolving Galactic Commonwealth? Of course, even from the beginning, new and unforeseen problems manifest themselves...

Caught between certain death at the paws of Shadow the Weasel and the claws of Redtail the Hawk, Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself on the run from his home and his stores of nuts and seeds just as winter is coming on. But Chatterer's unruly tongue gets him into all sorts of trouble with the...

At the age of seventeen, Abbie must decide whether to marry Ed, and live a life of comfort, or Will, who offers a sod shanty on the Nebraska frontier.