Grade: B+ (Sorted by Author's last name)
Ezra Pound (Literary Lives) (1981) - Peter Ackroyd (1949-) (Grade:B+)
The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) (Grade:B+)
Privileged Information (1984) - Tom Alibrandi (-) (Grade:B+)
Thieves Like Us (1937) - Edward Anderson (1905-1969) (Grade:B+)
Privileged Information (1984) - Frank H. Armani (-) (Grade:B+)
Physics and Politics: or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society (1863) - Walter Bagehot (02/03/1826-03/24/1877) (Grade:B+)
Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997) - Kirsten Bakis (-) (Grade:B+)
Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water (2000) - Philip Ball (-) (Grade:B+)
The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again (1992) - Robert L. Bartley (-) (Grade:B+)
Moving Mars (1993) - Greg Bear (1951-) (Grade:B+)
The Catastrophist (1997) - Ronan Bennett (1956-) (Grade:B+)
Terror and Liberalism (2003) - Paul Berman (-) (Grade:B+)
Taking Charge : The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:B+)
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (2002) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:B+)
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Sandra Blakeslee (-) (Grade:B+)
A Case of Conscience (1958) - James Blish (1921-1975) (Grade:B+)
Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague () - Chayim Bloch (06/26/1881-01/23/1973) (Grade:B+)
Hippo Eats Dwarf : A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (2006) - Alex Boese (-) (Grade:B+)
The Road to Wellville (1993) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-) (Grade:B+)
Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War (2003) - Walter J. Boyne (-) (Grade:B+)
Eagle In The Snow : A Novel of General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand (1970) - Wallace Breem (05/13/1926-1990) (Grade:B+)
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (2007) - Matthew Brzezinski (-) (Grade:B+)
Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (2004) - Alafair S. Burke (-) (Grade:B+)
Tales from Two Pockets (1932) - Karel Capek (1890-1938) (Grade:B+)
Warning Signs (2003) - Alan Caruba (10/09/1937-) (Grade:B+)
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin (1851-1904) (Grade:B+)
Fancies and Goodnights (1951) - John Collier (1901-1980) (Grade:B+)
Freak (1983) - Michael Collins (1924-) (Grade:B+)
The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (2007) - Robert Crais (1954-) (Grade:B+)
The Monkey's Raincoat (1988) - Robert Crais (1954-) (Grade:B+)
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) - Stephen Crane (1871-1900) (Grade:B+)
Cover Story (1994) - Robert Cullen (-) (Grade:B+)
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (2001) - Michael D'Antonio (-) (Grade:B+)
The Rose of Tibet (1962) - Lionel Davidson (1922-) (Grade:B+)
How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997) - Alain de Botton (1969-) (Grade:B+)
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (1968) - Phillip K. Dick (1929-1982) (Grade:B+)
Out of Africa (1937) - Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) (Grade:B+)
Hyde & Shriek (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, #6) (2006) - Franklin W. Dixon (-) (Grade:B+)
One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (2005) - Bob Joseph Dole (07/22/1923-) (Grade:B+)
Strip Cuts (2000) - David Drayer (-) (Grade:B+)
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (1998) - Annette Lawrence Drew (-) - Christopher Drew (-) (Grade:B+)
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar () - Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) (Grade:B+)
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1972) - Marilyn Durham (1930-) (Grade:B+)
The Name of the Rose [Il nome della rosa] (1980) - Umberto Eco (1932-) (Grade:B+)
The Hollow Men (1927) - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) (Grade:B+)
The Inn at the Edge of the World (1990) - Alice Thomas Ellis (09//09/1932-03/08/2005) (Grade:B+)
Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001) - Stefan Fatsis (-) (Grade:B+)
The Bear (1942) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:B+)
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) (Grade:B+)
Further Adventures (1993) - Jon Stephen Fink (-) (Grade:B+)
Madame Bovary (1857) - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) (Grade:B+)
Dr. No (1958) - Ian Fleming (1908-1964) (Grade:B+)
Pocket Book of Patriotism (2005) - Jonathan Foreman (-) (Grade:B+)
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors (2002) - Ian Frazier (1951-) (Grade:B+)
Tell Me a Story: Timeless folktales from around the world (2006) - Amy Friedman (-) (Grade:B+)
Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2004) - Harvey Frommer (-) (Grade:B+)
A Yankee Century (2002) - Harvey Frommer (-) (Grade:B+)
Neverwhere (1997) - Neil Gaiman (1960-) (Grade:B+)
The Case of the Baited Hook (1940) - Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) (Grade:B+)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories : Modern Tales for Our Life & Times (1994) - James Finn Garner (1939-) (Grade:B+)
Football Physics: The Science of the Game (2004) - Timothy James Gay (03/23/1953-) (Grade:B+)
A Treasury of Victorian Murder, Volume 1 (1987) - Rick Geary (-) (Grade:B+)
The Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (2005) - Fawaz A. Gerges (-) (Grade:B+)
The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989) - Bartholomew Gill (1943-) (Grade:B+)
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992) - Dana Gioia (1950-) (Grade:B+)
The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem (2002) - Frederick Glaysher (1954-) (Grade:B+)
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943-) (Grade:B+)
An Obsession with Anne Frank : Meyer Levin and the Diary (1997) - Lawrence Graver (-) (Grade:B+)
Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) - Robert Graves (1895-1985) (Grade:B+)
Calvin Coolidge : The American Presidents Series (2006) - David Greenberg (1968-) (Grade:B+)
The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene (1904-1991) (Grade:B+)
The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982) - Martha Grimes (1931-) (Grade:B+)
The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000) - Stephanie Gutmann (-) (Grade:B+)
Fathers Playing Catch With Sons : Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (1985) - Donald Hall (-) (Grade:B+)
The Shadowers (1964) - Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (03/24/1916-11/20/2006) (Grade:B+)
What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) - Peter Hansard (-) (Grade:B+)
The Central Liberal Truth : How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself (2006) - Lawrence E. Harrison (-) (Grade:B+)
Mister Roberts (1946) - Thomas Heggen (-) (Grade:B+)
Starship Troopers (1959) - Robert A. Heinlein (07/07/1907-1988) (Grade:B+)
The Absence of Nectar (2001) - Kathy Hepinstall (-) (Grade:B+)
A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (1914-1993) (Grade:B+)
Remembrance of Things Past : Combray (1998) - Stephane Heuet (-) (Grade:B+)
If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) - Chester Himes (1909-1984) (Grade:B+)
Why Orwell Matters (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (1949-) (Grade:B+)
Turtle Diary (1975) - Russell Conwell Hoban (02/04/1925-) (Grade:B+)
Power Golf (1948) - Ben Hogan (1912-1997) (Grade:B+)
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002) - Tony Horwitz (1958-) (Grade:B+)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-) (Grade:B+)
The Kite Runner (2003) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-) (Grade:B+)
A Shropshire Lad () - A. E. Housman (1859-1936) (Grade:B+)
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) (Grade:B+)
The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights (1968) - Ted Hughes (1930-1998) (Grade:B+)
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) - Samuel P. Huntington (-) (Grade:B+)
The Remains of the Day (1988) - Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) (Grade:B+)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) - P.D. James (08/03/1920-) (Grade:B+)
On My Philosophy () - Karl Jaspers (02/23/1883-02/26/1969) (Grade:B+)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) - James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) (Grade:B+)
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002) - Ashley Kahn (-) (Grade:B+)
The First World War (1998) - John Keegan (-) (Grade:B+)
Polo Anyone ? : A Nick Polo Mystery (1988) - Jerry Kennealy (-) (Grade:B+)
With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy () - Florence King (01/05/1936-) (Grade:B+)
Blood and Chocolate (1997) - Annette Curtis Klause (1953-) (Grade:B+)
The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (2001) - G. Bruce Knecht (-) (Grade:B+)
Quitting the Nairobi Trio (2000) - Jim Knipfel (-) (Grade:B+)
A Case of Curiosities (1992) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-) (Grade:B+)
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896-07/23/1957) (Grade:B+)
Evolution : The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles) (2004) - Edward John Larson (-) (Grade:B+)
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (2005) - Marianne J. Legato (1935-) (Grade:B+)
Solaris (1961) - Stanislaw Lem (1921-) (Grade:B+)
Dead Irish: a Dismas Hardy novel (1989) - John T. Lescroart (-) (Grade:B+)
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-) (Grade:B+)
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Julia M. Lewis (-) (Grade:B+)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian : A Novel (2005) - Marina Lewycka (1946-) (Grade:B+)
The Wall: A Thriller (2006) - Jeff Long (-) (Grade:B+)
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1987) - Bette Bao Lord (1938-) (Grade:B+)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) (Grade:B+)
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-) (Grade:B+)
The Homeschooling Revolution (2000) - Isabel Lyman (-) (Grade:B+)
Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power (2007) - Marcus Mabry (-) (Grade:B+)
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy (2003) - James MacDonald (-) (Grade:B+)
The Conquest of the United States (1949) - Archibald MacLeish (05/07/1892-04/20/1982) (Grade:B+)
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier (-) (Grade:B+)
The New New Left : How American Politics Works Today (2005) - Steven Malanga (-) (Grade:B+)
Faceless Killers (1991) - Henning Mankell (1948-) (Grade:B+)
Food's Frontier : The Next Green Revolution (2000) - Richard Manning (-) (Grade:B+)
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (2005) - Greil Marcus (1945-) (Grade:B+)
The Book of Trouble : A Romance (2006) - Ann Marlowe (1958-) (Grade:B+)
The Oxford Murders [Crimenes Imperceptibles] (2005) - Guillermo Martinez (07/29/1962-) (Grade:B+)
Winnetou (1893) - Karl May (1842-1912) (Grade:B+)
Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-) (Grade:B+)
Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (1996) - Frank McCourt (-) (Grade:B+)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) - Horace McCoy (1897-1955) (Grade:B+)
Mexican Hat (1997) - Michael McGarrity (-) (Grade:B+)
Encounters with the Archdruid [Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of his Natural Enemies] (1971) - John McPhee (1931-) (Grade:B+)
Annals of the Former World (1998) - John McPhee (1931-) (Grade:B+)
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001) - Walter Russell Mead (-) (Grade:B+)
Black Robe (1985) - Brian Moore (1921-1999) (Grade:B+)
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore (-) (Grade:B+)
The Wood Beyond the World (1895) - William Morris (1834-1896) (Grade:B+)
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours (1995) - Jerry Z. Muller (-) (Grade:B+)
The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (2004) - Kevin Nelson (1953-) (Grade:B+)
1812: A Novel (1997) - David Nevin (-) (Grade:B+)
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders : A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History (2006) - Rob Neyer (06/22/1966-) (Grade:B+)
Bone (1993) - Fae Myenne Ng (1957-) (Grade:B+)
Completing the Revolution : A Vision for Victory in 2000 (2000) - Robert D. Novak (1931-) (Grade:B+)
The Fire of Invention : Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (1997) - Michael Novak (-) (Grade:B+)
BUtterfield 8 (1935) - John O'Hara (1905-1970) (Grade:B+)
The Master Puppeteer (1975) - Katherine Paterson (1932-) (Grade:B+)
The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) (1959) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968) (Grade:B+)
The Raphael Affair (1992) - Iain Pears (1955-) (Grade:B+)
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (1978) - Morgan Scott Peck (05/22/1936-09/25/2005) (Grade:B+)
Captain Alatriste (1996) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-) (Grade:B+)
The Flanders Panel (1994) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-) (Grade:B+)
Violent Spring: An Ivan Monk Mystery (1994) - Gary Phillips (-) (Grade:B+)
Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger (2003) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-) (Grade:B+)
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture (2005) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-) (Grade:B+)
"Excuse Me, But I Was Next...": How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas (2006) - Peggy Post (-) (Grade:B+)
Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War (2000) - Steven Pressfield (-) (Grade:B+)
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet (1991) - Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1945-1994) (Grade:B+)
Rosa (2005) - Jonathan Rabb (-) (Grade:B+)
Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997) - Arnold Rampersad (-) (Grade:B+)
The Virtue of Selfishness : A New Concept of Egoism (1964) - Ayn Rand (1905-1982) (Grade:B+)
Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (1987) - Ian Rankin (1960-) (Grade:B+)
Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (1994) - Jonathan Rauch (1960-) (Grade:B+)
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism (1999) - Simon Reeve (-) (Grade:B+)
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-) (Grade:B+)
The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery (2002) - Ruth Rendell (02/17/1930-) (Grade:B+)
Anti-Americanism (2003) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-) (Grade:B+)
The Prison of Memory (1999) - Peter Rodgers (-) (Grade:B+)
American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (-) (Grade:B+)
The Sparrow (1996) - Mary Doria Russell (-) (Grade:B+)
Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (-) (Grade:B+)
Iron and Silk (1987) - James Salter (1925-) (Grade:B+)
At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election (2001) - Bill Sammon (-) (Grade:B+)
Wall of Glass : A Joshua Croft Mystery (1987) - Walter Satterthwait (-) (Grade:B+)
The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994) - John Ralston Saul (1947-) (Grade:B+)
A History of Britain, Volume II : The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) - Simon Schama (1945-) (Grade:B+)
Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) - Eric Schlosser (-) (Grade:B+)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1604) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (Grade:B+)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000) - Dai Sijie (03/02/1954-) (Grade:B+)
What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) - Burton Silver (-) (Grade:B+)
Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream (1997) - Jim Sleeper (-) (Grade:B+)
Rose (1996) - Martin Cruz Smith (-) (Grade:B+)
The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-) (Grade:B+)
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (1998) - Sherry Sontag (-) (Grade:B+)
The Quest for Cosmic Justice (1999) - Thomas Sowell (1930-) (Grade:B+)
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (2001) - Andrew Spielman (-) (Grade:B+)
Hoopla (1983) - Harry Stein (-) (Grade:B+)
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999) - Neal Stephenson (1959-) (Grade:B+)
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis () - Leo Strauss (09/20/1899-) (Grade:B+)
Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-) (Grade:B+)
From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist (1969) - John K. Terres (-) (Grade:B+)
Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-) (Grade:B+)
Thurber on Crime (1991) - James Thurber (1894-1961) (Grade:B+)
The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856) - Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859) (Grade:B+)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) - B. Traven (?-1969) (Grade:B+)
Incident at Twenty-Mile (1998) - Trevanian (1931-) (Grade:B+)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1964) - Elleston Trevor (1920-1995) (Grade:B+)
The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) - Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) (Grade:B+)
Secret Mission to Bangkok (1960) - Francis van Wyck Mason (11/11/1901-08/28/1978) (Grade:B+)
The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944-) (Grade:B+)
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Judith S. Wallerstein (-) (Grade:B+)
Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (2001) - Michael Watkins (-) (Grade:B+)
Scoop (1937) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:B+)
The Friendly Persuasion (1945) - Jessamyn West (1902-1984) (Grade:B+)
Siberian Light (1997) - Robin White (-) (Grade:B+)
Kaddish (1998) - Leon Wieseltier (1952-) (Grade:B+)
The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) - Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) (Grade:B+)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) - Simon Winchester (-) (Grade:B+)
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000) - Bob Woodward (1943-) (Grade:B+)
The Holy Land (2003) - Robert Zubrin (-) (Grade:B+)
