Reading Essentials: 322 books

At first it seems obvious that Old Fren Yorky had murdered Mrs. Bell; several of his footprints are identified near the body and is known to have been nearby at the time of the crime. But to find him is a difficult problem. He has disappeared completely, taking Mrs. Bell's ten-year-old daughter Linda...

John André (1750 – 1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.

Jim Kjelgaard had long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who went out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travelers lost in the deep snows of the Swiss mountain passes. Unable to find the facts, he decided to reconstruct the tale as he felt it might have been. The result is this very moving story of a simple mountain boy and his devoted dog. 

This is the classic great horse story written by a cowboy who trains a little black colt to become the most dependable horse. The experiences of a fascinating horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.

Veteran Gawaine Mickelthwait is home from the war in the East, but can he heal the breach between the people of Glen Ardaneigh and the estate's new laird who is of Spanish as well as Scottish blood?

The Small Dark Man is one of Walsh's best books and, typically, a fascinating tale of the Scottish Highlands in which romance, humour, whimsical philosophy, and sport abound!

Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl’s autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the Wild tells the story of Grey...

Arabian thieves led by the diabolically clever Molallet set one fiendish trap after another for Doc Savage and his mighty five. Only "Doc," with his superhuman mental and physical powers, could have withstood this incredible ordeal of endurance which led from the cavern of the crying rock...

Throwing caution to the wind, the heroes of this adventure embark on a roller coaster chase that takes them from Paris to the Pyrenees on the heels of a notorious jewel thief!

The state of Iowa was still young and wild when Wayne Lockwood came to it from New England in 1851. He claimed a quarter-section about a hundred miles west of Dubuque and quickly came to appreciate widely scattered neighbors like Jeremiah Martin, whose seven daughters would have chased the gloom from...

When a bow-and-arrow wielding crack-shot witnesses how cruelly the peasants are being treated by the lords of the land, he decides to become a righteous outlaw and fight against their tyranny, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. This is the exciting adventure story of the legendary Robin Hood, the best-known and best-loved outlaw of all time!

When Amory meets Gareth, a dashing pilot, they fall instantly in love. Their future holds wonderful promise - until his plane is reported missing...

While Tom Swift is working on his latest new invention, the electric rifle, he meets an African safari master whose stories of animal-hunting sends the group off to deepest, darkest Africa!  They find out some old friends are being held hostage by the fearsome tribes of the red pygmies. Swift...

Living in a kill or be killed world, they were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death. Can they find a new life and hope? A Fritz Leiber classic of post-apocalyptic science fiction!