Books for free - The Gutenberg project offers heaps of reading for young people at the relatively low cost of downloads and re-printing. Remember that it is definitely cheaper, more environmental friendly, and perhaps easier to buy the book off the shelf if you can find a publisher and bookstore with it. Check it out! Your printer uses chemicals and is expensive relative to a published book! Also, check out Google's Books and electronic devices that don't use paper. New ones are on the way that display in colour and eventually technology breakthroughs will give you the ultimate reading experience.
The world of artificial intelligence on choosing books or gnooks.
See Gnooks and the author literature map
The Gutenberg top 100 downloads
Context of some writers
AW Lake's favorite sea yarn authors. Many of their books Lake has on his bookshelves:
Mark Adkin
Michael Aye
John Biggins
Broos Campbell
Jane Clarke
Bernard Cornwell
David Donachie
Gerry Doyle
James Duffy
Ian Fleming
Alexander Fullerton
Iain Gale
Douglas W. Jacobson
Alexander Kent
Dewey Lambdin
Allan Mallinson
Arthur Mercante
James L. Nelson
Dudley Pope
Douglas Reeman
Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara
Julian Stockwin
Grady Wells
Richard Woodman
Also see Old and Sold: