Robin Hood
10 best books like Robin Hood (Antonia Fraser): Ivanhoe, Paradise Lost, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, They Called Us Enemy, Out of the Silent Planet, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, The Deerslayer, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
| Author | Walter Scott |
| ISBN | 0140436588 |
For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0140424393 |
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's...
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
One of the two best standalone books that I’ve ever read; this is truly historical fiction at its finest.
Lancelot by Giles Kristian was an amazing standalone and now, I’ve found Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. I’m starting to feel that historical fiction is the right genre to visit...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1416556052 |
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories.
In...
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
| Author | Ray Kurzweil |
| ISBN | 0143037889 |
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step...
| Author | George Takei |
| ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007157150 |
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures...
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
| Author | Trenton Lee Stewart |
| ISBN | 0316057800 |
The fearsome foursome is back in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling series praised by Rick Riordan!
The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance...
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| ISBN | 0451529391 |
A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first...
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children’s and Household Tales. Now, at a veritable fairy-tale moment—witness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this year’s two movie adaptations of “Snow White”—Philip Pullman,...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0812969960 |
This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward...
The Adventures of Robin Hood
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0140367004 |
Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. This classic version brings sense and clarity...
| Author | John Flanagan |
| ISBN | 0399244565 |
Kidnapped after the fierce battle with Lord Morgarath, Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as captives aboard a fearsome wolfship. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, and he will do anything to keep his promise–even defy his King. Expelled from the Rangers he has served so loyally, Halt is joined by Will's...
The Sorcerer in the North
| Author | John Flanagan |
| ISBN | 1741661285 |
Time has passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, led the Araluens to victory against invaders, and Will is now a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy -- boring, even -- until the Skandians show up and Will has to deal with the threat. Shortly thereafter,...
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
| Author | Ayaz Virji |
| ISBN | 0525577203 |
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.
In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage...
| Author | Walter Scott |
| ISBN | 9706079246 |
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scott created and popularized historical novels in a series called the Waverley Novels. In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 1593082533 |
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.
Published posthumously...
| Author | Robert T. Reilly |
| ISBN | 1883937221 |
It's been a few years since I read this, and so my memory is a little vague on some points. I actually got this from the library, because I watched Disney's version of it. (it kept pretty close to the book:) )
Young Hugh is tricked on board his enemy's ship and held captive for three years with other Irish...
A map of the world? Why did the King want that? Everyone knew if you went too far in either direction you'd fall off the edge, into the jaws of Genesi, the fire-breathing dragon.
A reluctant adventurer.
A ship captained by a slave.
A mysterious sea monster.
And a race...
