Grade: C (Sorted by Author's last name)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - Nelson Algren (1909-1981) (Grade:C)
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1992) - Martin Amis (1949-) (Grade:C)
The Assault [El Asalto] (1990) - Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) (Grade:C)
Move Closer : An Intimate Philosophy of Art (2000) - John Armstrong (1966-) (Grade:C)
Vox (1991) - Nicholson Baker (-) (Grade:C)
Christine Falls: A Novel (2006) - John Banville (12/08/1945-) (Grade:C)
Ravelstein (2000) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005) (Grade:C)
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) - Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) (Grade:C)
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (1998) - Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (-) (Grade:C)
Midwives: A Novel (1997) - Chris Bohjalian (-) (Grade:C)
Trout Fishing in America (1967) - Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) (Grade:C)
Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) - David Brooks (-) (Grade:C)
Before and After (1992) - Rosellen Brown (05/12/1939-) (Grade:C)
Too Good to Be True : The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (1999) - Jan Harold Brunvand (-) (Grade:C)
Wet Work (1990) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:C)
Emperor of the Air: Stories (1988) - Ethan Canin (-) (Grade:C)
Napalm & Silly Putty (2001) - George Carlin (1937-) (Grade:C)
The Adversary : A True Story of Monstrous Deception [L'Adversaire] (2000) - Emmanuel Carrere (1957-) (Grade:C)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (1873-1947) (Grade:C)
Those Damn Yankees : The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise (1999) - Dean Chadwin (-) (Grade:C)
Poodle Springs (1989) - Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) (Grade:C)
"He and She" and Other Stories 1880-82 : The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (Vol 1) (2000) - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) (Grade:C)
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) - Robert Coles (-) (Grade:C)
The Road from Coorain (1989) - Jill Ker Conway (1934-) (Grade:C)
Quarantine (1997) - Jim Crace (03/01/1946-) (Grade:C)
L.A. Requiem (1999) - Robert Crais (1954-) (Grade:C)
Rising Sun (1992) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942-) (Grade:C)
Corelli's Mandolin (1994) - Louis De Bernieres (1954-) (Grade:C)
The Death of Satan : How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil (1995) - Andrew Delbanco (-) (Grade:C)
White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (-) (Grade:C)
The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office (2003) - Gary Delsohn (-) (Grade:C)
The Man in the High Castle (1962) - Phillip K. Dick (1929-1982) (Grade:C)
Salvador (1983) - Joan Didion (1934-) (Grade:C)
Hadrian's Wall (2004) - William Dietrich (09/29/1951-) (Grade:C)
Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill (2003) - Michael Dobbs (11/14/1948-) (Grade:C)
Billy Bathgate (1989) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:C)
The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1896-1970) (Grade:C)
Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821-02/09/1881) (Grade:C)
Crunchy Cons : How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, ... America (or at least the Republican Party) (2006) - Rod Dreher (1967-) (Grade:C)
Diaspora (1997) - Greg Egan (1961-) (Grade:C)
Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) - Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-) (Grade:C)
A Life Without Consequences (2001) - Stephen Elliott (1971-) (Grade:C)
Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) (Grade:C)
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999) - Nathan Englander (-) (Grade:C)
A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour (1995) - John Feinstein (-) (Grade:C)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859) - Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) (Grade:C)
Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (1999) - Mick Foley (1965-) (Grade:C)
The Sportswriter (1986) - Richard Ford (1944-) (Grade:C)
The Magus (1965) - John Fowles (03/31/1926-11/05/2005) (Grade:C)
Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (1950-) (Grade:C)
The Lexus and the Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization (1999) - Thomas L. Friedman (1953-) (Grade:C)
The Blooding of the Guns : A novel of the Battle of Jutland [The Everard Naval Series, No. 1] (1976) - Alexander Fullerton (1924-) (Grade:C)
Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (1999) - Bill Gertz (-) (Grade:C)
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse (1991) - Mary Ann Glendon (-) (Grade:C)
Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden (-) (Grade:C)
Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993) (Grade:C)
Asterix the Legionary (1967) - Rene Goscinny (1926-1977) (Grade:C)
The Two Faces of Liberalism (2000) - John Gray (-) (Grade:C)
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (1999) - Linda Greenlaw (-) (Grade:C)
Another November (1986) - Roger Grenier (1919-) (Grade:C)
Six Degrees of Separation (1990) - John Guare (02/05/1938-) (Grade:C)
A Cold Day in Paradise (1998) - Steve Hamilton (-) (Grade:C)
Woman in the Dark : A Novel of Dangerous Romance (1933) - Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) (Grade:C)
Hunger (1890) - Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) (Grade:C)
Lost: Secret Identity (2006) - Cathy Hapka (-) (Grade:C)
When Last Seen Alive: An Aaron Gunner Mystery (1997) - Gar Anthony Haywood (-) (Grade:C)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - Chris Hedges (-) (Grade:C)
The Journey to the East (1956) - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) (Grade:C)
The World Turned Right Side Up : A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America (1996) - Godfrey Hodgson (-) (Grade:C)
Jerusalem (1996) - Cecelia Holland (1943-) (Grade:C)
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1997) - David Horowitz (1939-) (Grade:C)
Whatever [L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte] (1994) - Michel Houellebecq (1958-) (Grade:C)
A High Wind in Jamaica: The Innocent Voyage (1929) - Richard Hughes (1900-1976) (Grade:C)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-) (Grade:C)
A Pale View of Hills (1982) - Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) (Grade:C)
The Right and the Power (1977) - Leon Jaworski (-) (Grade:C)
Heat and Dust (1975) - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1923-) (Grade:C)
Middle Passage (1990) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-) (Grade:C)
Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-) (Grade:C)
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America (1994) - Paul E. Johnson (1942-) (Grade:C)
The Thin Red Line (1962) - James Jones (1921-1977) (Grade:C)
Libertarianism vs. Conservatism () - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-) (Grade:C)
Los Alamos : A Novel (1997) - Joseph Kanon (-) (Grade:C)
The Good German (2001) - Joseph Kanon (-) (Grade:C)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) - Laurie R. King (-) (Grade:C)
The Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) - Stephen King (1947-) (Grade:C)
The Painted Bird (1965) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) (Grade:C)
Into the Wild (1996) - Jon Krakauer (-) (Grade:C)
The Grand Complication (2001) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-) (Grade:C)
A Drink Before the War (1994) - Dennis Lehane (-) (Grade:C)
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) - Jonathan Lethem (1964-) (Grade:C)
Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (1967) - Leonard C. Lewin (1916-1998) (Grade:C)
Main Street (1920) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:C)
Vietnam: The Necessary War: Grand Strategy, Domestic Politics, and the American War for Indochina () - Michael Lind (-) (Grade:C)
Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America (2001) - Lynne Luciano (-) (Grade:C)
Miami and the Siege of Chicago : An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (1968) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923-) (Grade:C)
Death in Venice (1913) - Thomas Mann (1875-1955) (Grade:C)
Shopgirl: A Novella (2000) - Steve Martin (1945-) (Grade:C)
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought () - Ernst Mayr (07/05/1904-) (Grade:C)
The Innocent (1990) - Ian McEwan (1948-) (Grade:C)
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker (2003) - James McManus (-) (Grade:C)
The Sailor who Fell from the Grace with the Sea (1963) - Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) (Grade:C)
The Blood of the Lamb (1992) - Thomas Monteleone (1946-) (Grade:C)
The Wave (2006) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952-) (Grade:C)
A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:C)
A Beautiful Mind : A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 (1998) - Sylvia Nasar (-) (Grade:C)
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) (Grade:C)
House of Splendid Isolation (1994) - Edna O'Brien (1932-) (Grade:C)
The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje (1943-) (Grade:C)
Poodle Springs (1989) - Robert B. Parker (1932-) (Grade:C)
The Avengers: Too Many Targets (1990) - John Peel (1954-) (Grade:C)
My Love Affair With America : The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative (2000) - Norman Podhoretz (1930-) (Grade:C)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995) - Steven Pressfield (-) (Grade:C)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) (Grade:C)
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-) (Grade:C)
The Light in the Forest (1953) - Conrad Richter (1890-1968) (Grade:C)
The War of the Rats (1999) - David L. Robbins (-) (Grade:C)
The Avengers: Too Many Targets (1990) - David Rogers (-) (Grade:C)
The God of Small Things (1997) - Arundhati Roy (1961-) (Grade:C)
The Concept of the Political (1927) - Carl Schmitt (07/11/1888-04/07/1985) (Grade:C)
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-) (Grade:C)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) - Alan Sillitoe (1928-) (Grade:C)
The Mark of the Assassin (1998) - Daniel Silva (-) (Grade:C)
Storied Stadiums : Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks (2001) - Curt Smith (-) (Grade:C)
Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary : The First Dictionary for the Internet Age (2001) - Anne Soukhanov (-) (Grade:C)
Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) (Grade:C)
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C)
Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960-) (Grade:C)
Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder (1997) - Melanie Thernstrom (-) (Grade:C)
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) - Lewis Thomas (1913-1993) (Grade:C)
Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (1941-) (Grade:C)
Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932-) (Grade:C)
The Geometry of Love : Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (2001) - Margaret Visser (-) (Grade:C)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (1922-) (Grade:C)
Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:C)
Mackerel By Moonlight (1998) - William F. Weld (-) (Grade:C)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) (Grade:C)
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America (1994) - Sean Wilentz (-) (Grade:C)
The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life (2000) - Bruce Wilkinson (-) (Grade:C)
Buffalo Soldiers (1996) - Tom Willard (-) (Grade:C)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (1992) - Garry Wills (1934-) (Grade:C)
The Hidden Assassins (2006) - Robert Wilson (1957-) (Grade:C)
Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C)
Monkey: A Folk Novel of China () - Ch'Eng-En Wu (c. 1500-1582) (Grade:C)
Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People (2000) - Helen Zia (-) (Grade:C)
