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Grade:  C (Sorted by Author's last name)

The White Tiger (2008) - Aravind Adiga (10/23/1974-)  (Grade:C)

A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955)  (Grade:C)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - Nelson Algren (3/28/1909 -5/09/1981)  (Grade:C)

Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1992) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -5/19/2023)  (Grade:C)

The Assault [El Asalto] (1990) - Reinaldo Arenas (7/16/1943 -12/07/1990)  (Grade:C)

Move Closer : An Intimate Philosophy of Art (2000) - John Armstrong (1966-)  (Grade:C)

Vox (1991) - Nicholson Baker (1/07/1957 -)  (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 (5/27/1867 -3/27/1931)  (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 (1/30/1935 -9/16/1984)  (Grade:C)

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005) - Stephen Breyer (08/15/1938-)  (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 (12/07/1873 -4/24/1947)  (Grade:C)

Those Damn Yankees : The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise (1999) - Dean Chadwin (-)  (Grade:C)

Poodle Springs (1989) - Raymond Chandler (7/23/1888 -3/26/1959)  (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 (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:C)

Rising Sun (1992) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:C)

Crescent Dawn (2010) - Clive Cussler (06/15/1931 -02/24/2020)  (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 (11/20/1936 -)  (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 (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:C)

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2012) - Joel Dicker (06/16/1985-)  (Grade:C)

Salvador (1983) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (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 (1/14/1896 -9/28/1970)  (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)

The Circle (2013) - Dave Eggers (03/12/1970 -)  (Grade:C)

Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) - Barbara Ehrenreich (8/26/1941 -9/01/2022)  (Grade:C)

A Life Without Consequences (2001) - Stephen Elliott (1971-)  (Grade:C)

Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994)  (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)

First Among Sequels (2007) - Jasper Fforde (01/11/1961-)  (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 (2/16/1944 -)  (Grade:C)

The Magus (1965) - John Fowles (03/31/1926 -11/05/2005)  (Grade:C)

Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (11/04/1950 -)  (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 (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)  (Grade:C)

Asterix the Legionary (1967) - Rene Goscinny (1926-1977)  (Grade:C)

Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels (November 1940/March 1943) - John Grange (-)  (Grade:C)

The Two Faces of Liberalism (2000) - John Gray (4/17/1948 -)  (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 (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961)  (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)

Lonesome Animals (2012) - Bruce Holbert (-)  (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 (2/26/1956 -)  (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 (11/08/1954 -)  (Grade:C)

The Right and the Power (1977) - Leon Jaworski (-)  (Grade:C)

Heat and Dust (1975) - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1923-)  (Grade:C)

The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America (1994) - Paul E. Johnson (1942 -)  (Grade:C)

Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)  (Grade:C)

Middle Passage (1990) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)  (Grade:C)

The Thin Red Line (1962) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977)  (Grade:C)

Libertarianism vs. Conservatism () - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:C)

The Good German (2001) - Joseph Kanon (-)  (Grade:C)

Los Alamos : A Novel (1997) - Joseph Kanon (-)  (Grade:C)

'Salem's Lot (1975) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C)

The Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C)

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) - Laurie R. King (-)  (Grade:C)

Reality (2003) - Peter Kingsley (-)  (Grade:C)

Trust: Self-interest and the Common Good (2008) - Marek Kohn (-)  (Grade:C)

The Painted Bird (1965) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:C)

Into the Wild (1996) - Jon Krakauer (-)  (Grade:C)

Red Pill (2020) - Hari Kunzru (1969 -)  (Grade:C)

The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the Nationalal Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food (2009) - Mark Kurlansky (12/07/1948-)  (Grade:C)

The Grand Complication (2001) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-)  (Grade:C)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) - Stieg Larsson (08/15/1954-11/09/2004)  (Grade:C)

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) - Ursula K. Le Guin (10/21/1929 -1/22/2018)  (Grade:C)

A Drink Before the War (1994) - Dennis Lehane (-)  (Grade:C)

Motherless Brooklyn (1999) - Jonathan Lethem (1964 -)  (Grade:C)

How Democracies Die (2018) - Steven Levitsky (01/17/1968-)  (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 (2/07/1885 -1/10/1951)  (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 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:C)

Death in Venice (1913) - Thomas Mann (6/06/1875 -8/12/1955)  (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)

Amsterdam (1998) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (Grade:C)

The Innocent (1990) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (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 (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:C)

In the Night of Time (2009) - Antonio Munoz Molina (01/10/1956-)  (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 (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018)  (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)

Only a Promise of Beauty: The Place of Beauty in the World of Art (2007) - Alexander Nehamas (03/22/1946-)  (Grade:C)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Friedrich Nietzsche (10/15/1844 -8/25/1900)  (Grade:C)

The Sorrow of War (1991) - Bao Ninh (10/18/1952-)  (Grade:C)

House of Splendid Isolation (1994) - Edna O'Brien (1932-)  (Grade:C)

The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje (9/12/1943 -)  (Grade:C)

Poodle Springs (1989) - Robert B. Parker (09/17/1932 -01/18/2010)  (Grade:C)

Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America (2011) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-)  (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 (1/16/1930 -)  (Grade:C)

The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:C)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898 -9/25/1970)  (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)

Hadrian the Seventh (1904) - Frederick Rolfe (07/22/1860-10/25/1913)  (Grade:C)

The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2000) - Jeffrey Rosen (02/13/1964 -)  (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)

Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-)  (Grade:C)

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) - 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)

The Kreutzer Sonata [Kreytserova sonata] (1889) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828 -11/20/1910)  (Grade:C)

Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (10/25/1941 -)  (Grade:C)

Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932 -01/27/2009)  (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 (11/111922 -4/11/2007)  (Grade:C)

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003) - David Foster Wallace (02/21/1962 -09/12/2008)  (Grade:C)

Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:C)

Mackerel By Moonlight (1998) - William F. Weld (-)  (Grade:C)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (4/17/1897 -12/07/1975)  (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 (5/22/1934 -)  (Grade:C)

The Hidden Assassins (2006) - Robert Wilson (1957-)  (Grade:C)

Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)  (Grade:C)

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China () - Ch'Eng-En Wu (c. 1500-1582)  (Grade:C)

A Little Life (2015) - Hanya K Yanagihara (09/20/1974 -)  (Grade:C)

The Shack (2007) - William Paul Young (05/11/1955-)  (Grade:C)

Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People (2000) - Helen Zia (-)  (Grade:C)