I highly recommend RLS! Also Melville and Conrad. I still need to read a number of the books on your list. I'd also like to suggest any of Robert E. Heinlein's "juvenile" sci-fi novels. My introduction into ripping space yarns occurred when my father, thankfully, almost swatted a book out of my hands that was based on a current movie and "strongly recommended" The Red Planet.
I highly recommend RLS! Also Melville and Conrad. I still need to read a number of the books on your list. I'd also like to suggest any of Robert E. Heinlein's "juvenile" sci-fi novels. My introduction into ripping space yarns occurred when my father, thankfully, almost swatted a book out of my hands that was based on a current movie and "strongly recommended" The Red Planet.
Great list! Thank you!