The Tripods Trilogy
10 best books like The Tripods Trilogy (John Christopher): Island in the Sea of Time, Scaramouche, Curious George Rides a Bike, Glory Road, De brief voor de koning, Mr. Midshipman Easy, My Side of the Mountain/On the Far Side of the Mountain, The Green Odyssey, The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3) (Weird Tales), Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos
Island in the Sea of Time
| Author | S.M. Stirling |
| ISBN | 0451456750 |
"Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans."--George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones
It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the...
| Author | Rafael Sabatini |
| ISBN | 0451527976 |
“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...”
Once he was André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France’s lower class—until...
Curious George Rides a Bike
| Author | H.A. Rey |
| ISBN | 1844285073 |
Another great Curious George story that Neo sat and enjoyed. On the third anniversary of his arrival from the jungle--can it have been that long?--George receives a bicycle as a present from the Man with the Yellow Hat. George agrees to stay close to home, but we all know that monkeys tend to opt for the...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0765312220 |
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:
"ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years...
| Author | Tonke Dragt |
| ISBN | 9025833926 |
De jonge Tiuri verbreekt de regels, die bepalen dat hij met niemand mag praten in de nacht voordat hij tot ridder zal worden geslagen. Hij opent de deur.
Het verzoek dat hem wordt gedaan blijkt een heel gevaarlijke opdracht. Tiuri wordt achtervolgd door boosaardige Rode Ruiters, die hem met de dood...
| Author | Frederick Marryat |
| ISBN | 1404353879 |
A timelesss tale of a midshipman's rise in Nelson's navy.
Widely regarded as Marryat's best work, Mr. Midshipman Easy is based on the author's adventures sailing with Lord Thomas Cochrane. This classic seafaring tale is a fascinating account of naval life and warfare, of French prisons and...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0590372203 |
I'm pretty sure that I read this when I was in elementary school, although my memory of what actually occurred and how I felt about it is pretty slim. When my students chose it as a book to read in class, I wasn't sure how I would feel about it as an adult. Needless to say, it was barely okay.
This story...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0517098733 |
So I recently picked up some oldies: Farmer, Pohl, Norman, and this one I picked up rather curious by the cover. Now the only other thing I've ever read by Farmer was Venus on the Halfshell, you know, the one "supposedly" written by Kilgore Trout, and I had like that book, so why not? It seemed like a good gamble,...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0448162385 |
come join Conan the Cimmerian as he romps about in two bold and bloody adventures! well, one sorta-kinda adventure and the other a short mystery (although really not much of a mystery). in the first, young Conan encounters unpleasant natural & supernatural threats while attempting to steal a precious...
Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0441822452 |
CONAN in all his glory:
Amid the treachery of pirates, the intrigue of a doomed count, the fury of savage Picts, the flashing eyes and flowing hair of beautiful women, fierce swordplay and the deadly vengeance of a black magician, the greatest her Hyboria has ever known picks his way like a clever...
20 or so years ago, Will Self curated a feature in The Observer which listed 20-30 notable cult novels. Among these, established classics such as A Clockwork Orange , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Trainspotting rubbed shoulders with less famous offerings and Victor Headley's book counted among...
| Author | Walter Moers |
| ISBN | 3821829982 |
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Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher
| Author | Walter Moers |
| ISBN | 3813503933 |
Hildegunst von Mythenmetz kehrt zurück in die »Stadt der Träumenden Bücher«
Über zweihundert Jahre ist es her, seit Buchhaim, die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher, von einem verheerenden Feuersturm zerstört worden ist. Der Augenzeuge dieser Katastrophe, Hildegunst von Mythenmetz,...
| Author | John Keegan |
| ISBN | 0679730826 |
Brilliant. A cultural history of war from antiquity to the present day in a single volume. Keegan starts with the symbolic forms of war among the so called "primitives," including those from the neolithic, using much archaeological evidence to do so. He then moves on to the advent of the chariot by the...
Something They Will Not Forget
Every teacher has suffered the demoralizing realization that most students quickly forget the content they are taught. Many sophomores, for example, could not pass a literature exam or history quiz which they aced during freshman year. While most teachers are too embarrassed to admit this, their...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0425036103 |
One of the strangest stories ever written -- the tale of a barbarian adventurer, a woman pirate, and a weird roofed city inhabited by the most peculiar race of men ever spawned!
That was the Weird Tales editor's original terse blurb for this story's magazine publication. (There was another, longer...
| Author | Darren Shan |
| ISBN | 0316012386 |
I love all the books in this series, so much that I have rushed out and bought each book the minute I finished with the last. I loved the series so much that I pushed it onto all of my friends to read it (half of them didn’t bother, their loss).
Demon Thief is the second in the series and it was funny...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1585673919 |
Jimmy Pitt, wealthy English world traveller, bets he can burgle a house that night, and luckily red-headed ragged Spike Mullins (full of Cockney thief cant) sneaks into his flat, and offers the destination of grafting New York Police Captain McEachern. Still dreaming of the first-class dark-haired...
