Bookworm Bills Must Read List
Explore Bookworm Bill's must-read list of top book recommendations. Discover the best books to read, handpicked for avid readers and literary enthusiasts.
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Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
"If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in …
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Flash for Freedom!
by George MacDonald Fraser
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade …
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Flashman at the Charge
by George MacDonald Fraser
“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review “Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press “The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and …
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Flashman in the Great Game
by George MacDonald Fraser
“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review One of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The …
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Flashman's Lady
by George MacDonald Fraser
When his beautiful and brainless wife Elizabeth is abducted from Singapore by a half-breed ex-Etonian millionaire, Harry Flashman sets out on an odyssey of reluctant …
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Flashman and the Dragon
by George MacDonald Fraser
“Flashman strikes again… Wonderful… hilarious.”—USA Today Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before …
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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
by George MacDonald Fraser
“A jolly read.”—The Wall Street Journal The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum …
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Flashman and the Tiger
by George MacDonald Fraser
For the first time in four years comes a new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. …
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Arundel
by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
A young innkeeper in Maine tells of the terrible journey made by Colonial Benedict Arnold and his soldiers through the wilderness to Quebec, many months …
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Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private …
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Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is one of America's most collectible authors. The ever-growing number of his devoted readers has created a huge demand for signed and first …
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The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and …
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The System of the World
by Neal Stephenson
"New York Times" bestselling author Stephenson pens the final volume in his ambitious and compelling epic of intrigue, adventure, and excitement, filled with a remarkable …