Grade: A- (Sorted by Author's last name)
The 47 Ronin Story (1970) - John Allyn (-) (Grade:A-)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) - Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-) (Grade:A-)
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics (1996) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A-)
The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953) - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) (Grade:A-)
The Music of Chance (1990) - Paul Auster (1947-) (Grade:A-)
In the Heat of the Night (1965) - John Ball (1911-1988) (Grade:A-)
The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-) (Grade:A-)
The Death of Outrage : Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) - William J. Bennett (1943-) (Grade:A-)
The Demolished Man (1953) - Alfred Bester (1913-1987) (Grade:A-)
Tracks (2007) - Jim Black (1953-) (Grade:A-)
The Shield of Achilles (2002) - Philip Bobbitt (07/22/1948-) (Grade:A-)
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920-) (Grade:A-)
Ambling Into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002) - Frank Bruni (-) (Grade:A-)
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization () - Patrick J. Buchanan (1938-) (Grade:A-)
Wry Martinis (1997) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:A-)
Little Green Men (1999) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:A-)
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) - John Bunyan (1628-1688) (Grade:A-)
Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-) (Grade:A-)
The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998) - Thomas Cahill (-) (Grade:A-)
The Shape of Water (1994) - Andrea Camilleri (1925-) (Grade:A-)
Last Chance to See (1990) - Mark Carwardine (-) (Grade:A-)
The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge (2003) - John L. Casti (1943-) (Grade:A-)
The Family of Pacual Duarte (1942) - Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) (Grade:A-)
My Utmost for His Highest (1927) - Oswald Chambers (07/24/1874-1917) (Grade:A-)
The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare (1908) - G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) (Grade:A-)
The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) - Barbara Cleverly (-) (Grade:A-)
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-) (Grade:A-)
Mrs. Bridge (1959) - Evan S. Connell (1924-) (Grade:A-)
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. () - Robert Coover (1932-) (Grade:A-)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) - Ann H. Coulter (12/08/1961-) (Grade:A-)
On Great White Wings : The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight (2001) - Fred E. C. Culick (-) (Grade:A-)
The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) - George Dangerfield (1904-1986) (Grade:A-)
Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992) - Greg Dening (-) (Grade:A-)
The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times (2006) - Anthony DePalma (-) (Grade:A-)
Fup (1983) - Jim Dodge (-) (Grade:A-)
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) - Stephen J. Dubner (-) (Grade:A-)
House of Sand and Fog (1999) - Andre Dubus III (1959-) (Grade:A-)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) (Grade:A-)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) (Grade:A-)
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-) (Grade:A-)
Black Dahlia (1987) - James Ellroy (1948-) (Grade:A-)
Orestes (408 BC) - Euripides (485-406 BC) (Grade:A-)
Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2001) - Elizabeth A. Fenn (1959-) (Grade:A-)
Aspects of the Novel (1927) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:A-)
Drawing Life : Surviving the Unabomber (1997) - David Gelernter (-) (Grade:A-)
A Great Deliverance: an Inspector Lynley Mystery (1988) - Susan Elizabeth George (02/26/1949-) (Grade:A-)
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (2007) - John Ghazvinian (-) (Grade:A-)
A Little History of the World (1936) - Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (03/30/1909-11/03/2001) (Grade:A-)
A Cold Case (2001) - Philip Gourevitch (1961-) (Grade:A-)
The Third Man (1950) - Graham Greene (1904-1991) (Grade:A-)
Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-) (Grade:A-)
Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir (1949) - John Gunther (1901-1970) (Grade:A-)
The Forever War (1943) - Joe Haldeman (-) (Grade:A-)
Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History (2004) - Lee Harris (-) (Grade:A-)
Archangel (1998) - Robert Harris (1957-) (Grade:A-)
Enigma (1995) - Robert Harris (1957-) (Grade:A-)
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education (2001) - Jeffrey Peter Hart (1930-) (Grade:A-)
Rocket Boys: A Memoir (1998) - Homer H. Hickam, Jr. (1943-) (Grade:A-)
Strangers on a Train (1950) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921-1995) (Grade:A-)
Canaan (1996) - Geoffrey Hill (1932-) (Grade:A-)
Waking Lazarus (2006) - T. L. Hines (1966-) (Grade:A-)
High Fidelity (1995) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957-) (Grade:A-)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006) (Grade:A-)
Godiva and the Golden Dragon (2001) - Steven James (-) (Grade:A-)
Waiting (1999) - Ha Jin (1956-) (Grade:A-)
In the City of Fear (1982) - Ward S. Just (1935-) (Grade:A-)
The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952-) (Grade:A-)
Across the Red Line : Stories from the Surgical Life (2002) - Richard C. Karl (1945-) (Grade:A-)
Shakespeare's Language (2000) - Frank Kermode (1919-) (Grade:A-)
The Green Mile (1997) - Stephen King (1947-) (Grade:A-)
Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-) (Grade:A-)
Seven Days to the Sea: an Epic Novel of The Exodus (2006) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-) (Grade:A-)
Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (2003) - Gina Kolata (02/25/1948-) (Grade:A-)
Into Thin Air (1997) - Jon Krakauer (-) (Grade:A-)
The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970) (Grade:A-)
Hondo (1953) - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) (Grade:A-)
The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - John Lanchester (1962-) (Grade:A-)
The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory (2002) - Derek Leebaert (-) (Grade:A-)
Death in a Strange Country : a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (1993) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942-) (Grade:A-)
The Death of Napoleon [La Mort de Napoleon] (1986) - Simon Leys (1935-) (Grade:A-)
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (2002) - Andro Linklater (-) (Grade:A-)
The Feast of the Goat (2000) - Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-) (Grade:A-)
The Sea Wolf (1904) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A-)
The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2005) - Michael Mandelbaum (1946-) (Grade:A-)
First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton (1995) - David Maraniss (-) (Grade:A-)
Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-) (Grade:A-)
Fat Ollie's Book : A Novel of the 87th Precinct (2002) - Ed McBain (10/15/1926-07/06/2005) (Grade:A-)
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Grade:A-)
Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Grade:A-)
A Fine Balance (1996) - Rohinton Mistry (1952-) (Grade:A-)
The Old Religion in the New World: The History of North American Christianity (2001) - Mark A. Noll (1946-) (Grade:A-)
What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990) - Peggy Noonan (1950-) (Grade:A-)
All the Trouble in the World : The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty (1995) - P.J. O'Rourke (1947-) (Grade:A-)
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness (2004) - Buster Olney (-) (Grade:A-)
Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-) (Grade:A-)
Out of My League (1961) - George Ames Plimpton (03/18/1927-09/25/2003) (Grade:A-)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) (Grade:A-)
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-) (Grade:A-)
The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2004) - Steven Pressfield (-) (Grade:A-)
The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006) - Steven Pressfield (-) (Grade:A-)
Letter to a Man in the Fire : Does God Exist and Does He Care? (1999) - Reynolds Price (1933-) (Grade:A-)
The Mummy Congress : Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (2001) - Heather Pringle (-) (Grade:A-)
Out of America : A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997) - Keith B. Richburg (-) (Grade:A-)
The Last Jihad (2002) - Joel C. Rosenberg (-) (Grade:A-)
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999) - Witold Rybczynski (-) (Grade:A-)
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (2000) - Sally Satel, M. D. (-) (Grade:A-)
Calculating God (2000) - Robert J. Sawyer (1960-) (Grade:A-)
Roman Blood (1991) - Steven Saylor (05/23/1956-) (Grade:A-)
How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976) - Francis August Schaeffer (01/30/1912-1984) (Grade:A-)
Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) (Grade:A-)
Staying On (1977) - Paul Scott (1920-1978) (Grade:A-)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) - Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) (Grade:A-)
The Tragedy of Richard III (1593) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (Grade:A-)
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996) - Roger Shattuck (08/20/1923-12/08/2005) (Grade:A-)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) (Grade:A-)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) - Dava Sobel (-) (Grade:A-)
Oedipus Rex (430 BC) - Sophocles (496-406 BC) (Grade:A-)
Baghdad Sketches (1933) - Freya Stark (05/09/1893-1993) (Grade:A-)
GAME: MooT (1998) - Jon Steeves (-) (Grade:A-)
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000) - Harry Stein (-) (Grade:A-)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:A-)
Virtually Normal : An Argument About Homosexuality (1995) - Andrew Sullivan (-) (Grade:A-)
Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist (1991) - Roger B. Swain (02/05/1949-) (Grade:A-)
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003) - Anthony Swofford (-) (Grade:A-)
The Secret History (1992) - Donna Tartt (1963-) (Grade:A-)
The Count and the Confession (2002) - John Taylor (1955-) (Grade:A-)
Pop. 1280 (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977) (Grade:A-)
Hadji Murad (1911) - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) (Grade:A-)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (1835-1910) (Grade:A-)
Republicanism (1999) - Maurizio Viroli (-) (Grade:A-)
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture (1962) - Robert Warshow (1917-1955) (Grade:A-)
Men at Arms (Volume One of the Sword of Honour Trilogy) (1952) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:A-)
The Invisible Man (1897) - H.G. Wells (1866-1946) (Grade:A-)
1900 (1982) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A-)
A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) - Don Winslow (1953-) (Grade:A-)
A Man In Full (1998) - Tom Wolfe (1931-) (Grade:A-)
Beau Geste (1924) - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) (Grade:A-)
The Lost Daughter of Happiness : A Novel (2001) - Geling Yan (-) (Grade:A-)
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (2002) - Richard Zacks (1955-) (Grade:A-)
