Books I own, which I may or may not have read yet.
There are 485 books with a status of Owned.
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- Acceptable Time
- Alien Bodies
On an island in the East Indies, in a lost city buried deep in the heart of the rainforest, agents of the most formidable powers in the galaxy are gathering. They have been invited there to bid for what could turn out to be the deadliest weapon ever created.
- All Through the Blood
- Alphabet of Thorn
Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal library, translating their languages and learning their secrets. Now sixteen, she knows little of the outside world -- except for the documents that traders and travelers bring her to interpret. Then, during the coronation of the new Queen of Raine, a young mage gives Nepenthe a book that has defied translation, written in an alphabet of thorns...
- Annotated Thursday
An annotated version of "The Man Who Was Thursday".
- Anything Box
Short story anthology (including "People" stories)
- Arabella
- Arm of the Starfish
- Ascending
- Ashes of Victory
- At the Back of the North Wind
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- Babel-17
This book is beautiful.
- Balance of Trade
- Ball and the Cross
- Barrayar
Sequel to [[Shards of Honor]].
- Beacon At Alexandria
The Beacon At Alexandria is one of the best historical novels I've read.
- Beekeeper's Apprentice
The first in the Mary Russell Sherlock Holmes series.
- Beige Planet Mars
"Professor Summerfield, your very presence here has raised this hotel's insurance premiums by seven point two percent."
- Black Orchid
Novelization of the episode "Black Orchid".
- Black Powder War
Temeraire, Book 3
- Black Sheep
- Black Sun Rising
Twelve centuries after fate first stranded colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the ''fae'' for their own profit, little realizing that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are rapidly gaining in strength.
- Blakes 7: Scorpio Attack
Novelization of the start of the fourth season.
- Blake's 7: Their First Adventure
Novelization of the first few episodes.
- Blake's 7: The Programme Guide
A useful reference, so long as one ignores the inaccuracies.
- Blake's 7: Project Avalon
Novelization of "Project Avalon" and other nearby episodes.
- Blue Fairy Book
- Blue Girl
Seventeen-year-old Imogene jumps at the chance to lose her bad girl reputation when her family moves to a new town. She purposely lays low at Redding High, only making friends with Maxine, a shy, studious girl who is Imogene's opposite in every way. Despite a few run-ins with the ruling football jock and his cheerleader girlfriend, Imogene keeps her temper in check and even lends some of her bravado to Maxine, who begins to come out of her straight-A shell. Things are going well for the new friends--until the day Imogene meets Adrian, the benign ghost of a boy who died in the school's parking lot.
- Blue Sword
- Body and Soul
Novelization of the telemovie "Body and Soul".
- Book of Dreams
- Book of God
The Bible as a novel.
- Borders of Infinity
This is an anthology, so it's rather hard to place this chronologically. One story is just after The [[Warriors Apprentice]], while others are set somewhere before and after The [[Vor Game]] and [[Brothers In Arms]].
- Brain Plague
- Breed to Come
The far future, and Earth is abandoned by humans... but have they returned? And what will their inheritors think of them?
- Bridge of Birds
- Brief Lives
- Bright and Morning Star
- Brothers in Arms
Juggling identities has never been more difficult...
- Brown Fairy Book
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- Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Cart and Cwidder
- Case of Conscience
Classic what-if regarding alien life... and souls.
- Cassini Division
Ellen May Ngwetha is a young woman with centuries of experience, no morality and the true knowledge.
- Cetaganda
Miles and Ivan are sent on a routine assignment to Cetaganda, to aquire some polish. Of course, with Miles, it's never that simple.
- Changeling Sea
- Charmed Life
- Children of the Mind
The other half of the book.
- Children of the Star
Omnibus of "This Star Shall Abide", "Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains" and "The Doors of the Universe"
- Christ the Eternal Tao
- Citizen of the Galaxy
- City of Golden Shadow
Otherland... Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have laboured to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children.
- City of Pearl
Intriguing aliens, with an environmental slant.
- Civil Campaign
Miles doesn't find himself quite as adept on the field of romance as on the field of war...
- Clan of the Cave Bear
Speculative pre-history; spawned a genre.
- Clear and Present Danger
- Cleopatra's Heir
What if Cleopatra's heir hadn't died?
- Club of Queer Trades
Anthology of short stories about the "Club of Queer Trades".
- College of Magics
- Complete Chronicles of the Jerusalem Man
The Complete Chronicles of the Jerusalem Man by David A. Gemmell (1995)
- Complete Father Brown
Father Brown, the cleric with the sharp eye and the gentle mein
- Complete Illustrated Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
- Complete Illustrated Stories of Jacob Grimm
Complete Illustrated Stories by Jacob Grimm (1984)
- Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll
- Complete Ivory
Omnibus edition of "Gate of Ivory", "Two-Bit Heroes" and "Guilt Edged Ivory"
- Complete People Collection
A compilation of most of the "People" stories
- Conrad's Fate
- Convenient Marriage
- Corinthian
- Covenants
- Crimson Fairy Book
- Crown of Dalemark
- Crown of Fire
- Crown of Shadows
For more than a millennium now Erna's humans have maintained an uneasy stalemate with the ''fae'', that treacherous force of nature which feeds on the human psyche. ... Now one of these demons, a Iezu called Calesta, has declared war on all of mankind.
- Crystal Dragon
- Crystal Soldier
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Curse of Chalion
''All Cazaril wants is a humble post, something to live on. Instead he gets thrust into political intrigue and the darkness that is hanging over the country of Chalion.''
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- Dam Busters
The story of the destruction of German dams by the English in WWII.
- Dangerous Notes
Near future, neurobiology, music, obsession, and Greek myth.
- Dark Horizon
Sequel to the cliffhanger which the original series ended with.
- Dark North
- Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
- Das Boot the Boat
The classic story of a German U-boat.
- Davidson Affair
What if Christ had come in modern times instead of two millenia ago?
- Day of Descent
This fills in background set before the series start.
- Death: At Death's Door
- Death: The High Cost of Living
- Death: The Time of Your Life
- Debt of Honour
- Decalog
Doctor Who fiction anthology: "Ten stories, Seven Doctors, One enigma".
- Decalog 3
Doctor Who fiction anthology: "Ten stories, Seven Doctors, One chain of events".
- Deceivers
Wheels within wheels...
- Deeper Meaning of Liff
"A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet."
- Deepwater Angels
- Deepwater Black
- Deepwater Landing
This continues the story of the spaceship Deepwater, the links between past and future, and the perils that must be overcome, both inside and outside.
- Deep Wizardry
The second book in the Young Wizards Series.
- Demolished Man
A man plans the perfect crime, in a future where telepaths make all crime impossible.
- Derelict for Trade
- Deviant Strain
The first Who novel I've read that's been named after a typeface.
- Devil on My Back
- Devil's Cub
- Devlin's Honor
- Devlin's Luck
- Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
- Diplomatic Immunity
Miles and Ekaterin have to sort out a diplomatic problem on Graf Station -- which may turn out to be not what it seems.
- Discontinuity Guide
A guide to the errors and absurdities of the Doctor Who universe, story by story, 1st through to 7th Doctors.
- Doctor Who Programme Guide
Doctor Who Programme Guide by Jean-Marc Lofficier (1983)
- Doll's House
- Door in the Hedge
Assorted short fantasy stories.
- Dragon Paths
- Dragons in the Waters
- Dream Catcher
Sequel to [[Devil On My Back]].
- Dream Country
- Dream Hunters
- Dreaming: Through The Gates Of Horn & Ivory
- Dreamstone Moon
Sam is on her own, but her distance from the Doctor doesn't make for a trouble-free life.
- Drowned Ammet
- D'Shai
In feudal D'Shai, your birth determines your status -- and your own special magic. There is the Way of the Warrior, the Way of the Runner, and fifty other kazuh. Thus it has always been...
- Dying Days
The first of the New Adventures to feature the 8th Doctor instead of the seventh; the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one.
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- Earthsong
The Earth of the distant future has become a strange and frightening place. Now, thousands of years later, two off-worlder humans, Anna and Joe, are sent back to this wild and unpopulated planet to try to begin human life all over again. But...
- Echoes in Time
- Echoes of Honor
- Eight Cousins
Old-fashioned wholesome story of an orphan and her heaps of aunts and cousins.
- Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type
- Elements of Style
The Little Book of English style.
- Elixir of Youth
- Ella Enchanted
- Enchanter Reborn
Magic spells masquerading as a college professor's symbolic logic will get you to some ridiculously dangerous land of myth and magic; but once you're there it will take fast talking and faster swordplay to survive... a job for the Incomplete Enchanter!
- Enchantress from the Stars
- Ender's Game
There was a short story first, then this book, then the series that it spawned.
- Endless Nights
- Engaging the Enemy
- Enormous Egg
What if... a chicken laid a dinosaur egg? Then what?
- Escape or Die
Anthology of RAF WWII escape stories.
- Ethan of Athos
Sort of a spin-off book, using minor characters (no Miles).
- Everlasting Man
- Executive Orders
- Expendable
- Eyre Affair
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- Game
Hayley's parents disappeared when she was a baby. Since then, she has been raised and homeschooled by her grandparents. Grandad is overworked and travels a lot; Grand ma is much too strict, and never lets her meet any children her own age. When Hayley does something wrong -- she is not quite sure what -- her grandmother packs her off to her aunts in Ireland.
- Game of You
- Gates of Fire
An epic novel of the battle of Thermopylae.
- Genocide
Years after leaving UNIT, Jo Grant receives a plea for help from an old acquaintance. A palaeontological study of the earliest known humans is apparently under threat from a UNIT force led by a captain who does not officially exist. Investigating further, she begins to find herself out of her depth - and out of the twentieth century altogether...
- Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
- Golden Age
The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Phaethon of Radmanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an impostor, and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. And that's just the start...
- Golden Goblet
- Grand Sophy
- Grantville Gazette
- Gravity
- Great Divorce
- Green Fairy Book
- Grey Fairy Book
- Guardian of Isis
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- Land Behind the World
When Bara finds herself in the Land Behind the World she meets people with strange powers. Why was she chosen to help them? What danger is there in the Fields of Silver? What is a Missing Person and who are the Flugs?
- Languages of Pao
The people of Pao were docile - much too much so for their own good. Because they were always easy marks for space pirates and glib-tongued businessmen from commercial worlds. When finally one particularly nasty band of ruthless conquerors came down and simply took over the whole planet, the last survivor of Pao's monarchy sought assistance from the scientific wizards of the planet Breakness.
- Larklight
It was just another normal morning in space when disaster struck. Myrtle and Art face the most awful peril, and they hadn't even had breakfast yet...
- Last Battle
- Last Dodo
The Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones.
- Last Unicorn
- Left-Handed Hummingbird
- Left Hand of Darkness
- Letter of Mary
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- Lilac Fairy Book
- Lilith
- Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Little Fuzzy
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant that they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference from the Colonial Government. Then Jack Holloway, a sunstone prospector, found the first Fuzzy, and was convinced that they were not cute animals but little people.
- Little Princess
- Little White Horse
- Lives of Christopher Chant
- Local Custom
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
- Lord of Light
- Lost in a Good Book
- Lud-in-the-Mist
- Lungbarrow
- Lythande
Collected short stories about Lythande, a character the author created for the "Thieves World" anthologies.
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- Magician's Nephew
- Magicians of Caprona
- Magician's Ward
When Mairelon made Kim his ward, he promised to teach her to be a lady and a magician. But magic proves to be harder than it looks, and being a lady is even harder.
- Mainline
Far-future SF (planets, aliens and spaceships); the heroine is an assassin who can slide into parallel universes... but can't always get back again.
- Mairelon the Magician
When Kim is hired to break in to a travelling magician's wagon to look for a silver bowl, she doesn't know what she's getting into.
- Mammoth Hunters
Ayla and Jondalar and the Mammoth Hunters
- Manalive
- Man Who Knew Too Much
- Man Who Was Thursday
His most famous.
- Many Waters
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile
- Marrow
The Ship is home to a thousand alien races and a near-immortal crew who have no knowledge of its origins or purpose. At its core lies a secret as ancient as the universe. It is about to be unleashed.
- Martha in the Mirror
Castle Extremis - whoever holds it can control the provinces either side that have been at war for centuries. Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end.
- Memory
Miles hits thirty; thirty hits back.
- Mere Christianity
- Merlin's wood
- Metallic Love
Sequel to The [[Silver Metal Lover]].
- Millennial Rites
- Mind for Trade
- Mind Light
- Minds Apart
- Mirror Dance
- Mixed Magics
Short stories set in the Chrestomanci universe.
- Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to vengeance against the whale that 'reaped' his leg.
- Monstrous Regiment of Women
- Moon-Flash
- Moon in the Cloud
- Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Moonwar
- Moor
- Moorchild
- Morality for Beautiful Girls
With her detective agency in financial difficulty, Mma Ramotswe takes the hard decision to share offices with her husband-to-be, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. But even though Tlkoweng Road Speedy Motors could do with a little help, it is Mr Matekoni himslef who requires her attention...
- More Than Honor
Honor Harrington anthology
- Mr Standfast
"I had a vision of what I had been fighting for, what we all were fighting for. It was peace, deep and holy and ancient, peace older than the oldest wars..."
- My Posse Don't Do Homework
The book upon which the movie "Dangerous Minds" was based.
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- Napoleon of Notting Hill
The familiar become strange.
- No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only -- and finest -- female private detective.
- Nova
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- Odyssey
Of course, Homer was the author, but Fitzgerald was the translator.
- Ogre Downstairs
- Oh No It Isn't!
- O Jerusalem
Set during certain events in "The Beekeeper's Apprentice"; yes, the whole book is a missing scene.
- Olive Fairy Book
- Omega Factor
Novelization and backstory based on the TV series.
- On Basilisk Station
- Orange Fairy Book
- Ordinary Princess
All across the kingdom, excitement is running high: a seventh princess, always the luckiest and most beautiful of all, has just been born to good King Huldebrand and Her Majesty Queen Rodehesia. When the christening day arrives, Her Serene and Royal Highness Princess Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne is showered with the most extravagant, marvelous presents imaginable - until her last, most powerful fairy godmother proclaims, "You shall be Ordinary!"
- Orphans of Chaos
- Out of the Silent Planet
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- Paladin of Souls
- Paradoxes of Mr Pond
- Partners in Necessity
Omnibus of "[[Conflict of Honors]]", "Agent of Change" and "Carpe Diem"
- Passing Fancy
The best standalone Alien Nation novel I've read.
- Patriot Games
- Peacemaker
The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer'. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets...
- People of the Sea
- Perelandra
Also known as "Voyage To Venus".
- Perfect Rake
- Perfect Timing 2
Doctor Who charity anthology -- and Rebecca Anderson has a story in it!
- Perilous Gard
- Persuasion
- Phantastes
- Phoenix Exultant
Phaethon discovers the tarnished underbelly of the shining utopia he took for granted...
- Pig Plantagenet
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Pinhoe Egg
- Pink Fairy Book
- Plan B
- Poetical Works of William Cowper
Another book rescued from my father's library, and not yet read.
- Poison Study
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. As a food taster, she'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
- Polaris
Sixty years ago, the space yacht ''Polaris'' was found deserted, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery. Now, to mark the anniversary of the disappearance, there is to be an auction of what was left behind on the ship. Alex Benedict secures some of the artefacts. And then an explosion destroys most of the collection...
- Postman
Post-apocalyptic USA... what they need is hope.
- Powder and Patch
- Power of Three
- Practice Effect
Premise: What if practice ''does'' make perfect?
- Preludes and Nocturnes
- Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally aknowledged, that a single man in posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Prince Among Men
- Prince Caspian
- Princess and Curdie
- Princess and the Goblin
- Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
- Project Farcry
Richard Jordan is a telepath, but his psychic gifts have brought him nothing but trouble. For years he's been hiding his mental powers, considering them a curse, until First Contact with an unusual alien species awakens him to the full potential of his abilities.
- Psychohistorical Crisis
Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty: the removal of his "fam". Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he can barely function amidst the bewildering complexities of everyday life on Splendid Wisdom. What was worse, he had lost many of his memories and skills. He was being punished for a crime he could no longer remember committing.
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- Sand Reckoner
A slice from the life of Archemedes.
- Sapphire and Steel
Novelisation of the first adventure from the TV Series.
- Saturdays
- Scout's Progress
- Screwtape Letters
- Scribbling in the Sand: Christ and Creativity
- Season of Mists
- Secret Garden
- Secret of the Sixth Magic
- Seeing I
He has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from him.
- Seeker
Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's ships.
- Selected Cautionary Verses
- Selected Poems of Robert Browning
- Selected Works of John Wyndham
Omnibus of novels and short stories.
- Sense and Sensibility
- Set Piece
- Seventh Swan
After the fairytale of the Seven Swans, what happened to the seventh brother, the one with one swan's wing?
- Shadow on the Sun
- Shards of Honor
- Passage
Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples.
- Ship Who Searched
- Short Trips
Doctor Who anthology (1st to 8th Doctors) -- includes "Model Train Set" by Jonathan Blum!
- Short Victorious War
- Silver Chair
- Silver Metal Lover
- Sky Fleet of Atlantis
- Sky Road
Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. One young scholar, Clovis colha Gree, discovers that the launch of the first space ship is in jeopardy.
- Snowglobe 7
Erath, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The polar ice caps are melting... While Martha struggles to help with an infection sweeping through the Dome, the Doctor discovers an alien threat that has lain hidden since the last ice age. A threat that is starting to thaw.
- Solar Queen
Omnibus of "Sargasso of Space" and "Plague Ship".
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Something Rotten
- Some Through the Fire
- Songmaster
- Son of Tarzan
- Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country (Magic Carpet Books) by Patricia C. Wrede (2004)
- So Vile a Sin
- So You Want to Be a Wizard
- Speaker for the Dead
- Speed of Dark
- Spellcoats
- Stardust
- Stars My Destination
Also known as "Tiger! Tiger!".
- Startide Rising
- Stone Canal
Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death's only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, and only the Abolitionists object.
- Storm Front
Harry Dresden, wizard for hire. Fantasy Noir.
- St Thomas Aquinas and St Francis of Assisi
- Sum of All Fears
- Sunshine
''There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her...''
- Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Sylvester
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- Talent for War
Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyur. But now, Alex Benedict has found a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file. If it is true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud. For his own sake, for the sake of history, Alex Benedict must find out.
- Tales from Watership Down
Anthology of tales related to the Watership Down universe.
- Talisman Ring
- Taltos the Assassin
An omnibus of "Jhereg", "Yendi" and "Teckla".
- Tao of Pooh
- Tarzan and the Ant Men
- Tarzan and the Golden Lion
- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
- Tarzan and the Lost Empire
- Tarzan at the Earth's Core
This one was a sort of crossover between Tarzan and Burroughs' "Earth's Core" universe.
- Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
- Tarzan of the Apes
The one that started it all.
- Tarzan the Invincible
- Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan the Untamed
- Tears of the Giraffe
It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Precious to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari. And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of matters closer to home to concern her.
- Temeraire
Also known as "His Majesty's Dragon"
- Te of Piglet
- That Hideous Strength
- Then There Were Five
- These Old Shades
- Thomas the Rhymer
- Throne of Jade
- Tides of Light
- Tigana
- Time Future
- Time Past
- Time Piper
- Tinker
Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves.
- Tomorrow Log
- Tomorrow, When the War Began
Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. They're shocked, they're frightened, they're alone. Their world has changed, with the speed of a slamming door.
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Tough Guide to Fantasyland
- Trading in Danger
- Transformation
- Trapped
- Travel Without the TARDIS
The Doctor Who fan's guide to England, Scotland and Wales.
- Trouble with Lichen
- Tuck Everlasting
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- Zones
This is simply a good teen-SF novel.