Grade: C+ (Sorted by Author's last name)
The Black Dudley Murder (1929) - Margery Allingham (05/20/1904-06/30/1966) (Grade:C+)
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949
-5/19/2023) (Grade:C+)
The Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (11/18/1939
-) (Grade:C+)
The Windup Girl (2009) - Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (08/06/1972-) (Grade:C+)
The Last River : The Tragic Race for Shangri-La (2000) - Todd Balf (-) (Grade:C+)
The Librarian (2004) - Larry Beinhart (-) (Grade:C+)
They Shall Have Stars (aka : Year 2018!) [Part One of Cities in Flight] (1957) - James Blish (1921-1975) (Grade:C+)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (1974) - Heinrich Boll (1917-1985) (Grade:C+)
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa (2004) - Charles Brandt (-) (Grade:C+)
Hotel Du Lac (1984) - Anita Brookner (7/16/1928
-3/10/2016) (Grade:C+)
Tobacco Road (1932) - Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) (Grade:C+)
The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913
-1/04/1960) (Grade:C+)
The Alienist (1994) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955
-) (Grade:C+)
Gold: Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter (1925) - Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) (Grade:C+)
The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (5/27/1912
-6/18/1982) (Grade:C+)
Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991) - Len Colodny (-) (Grade:C+)
Sacred Hoops : Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (1995) - Hugh Delehanty (-) (Grade:C+)
Underworld () - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936
-) (Grade:C+)
Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World (1996) - David Denby (-) (Grade:C+)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) - Jared Diamond (1937-) (Grade:C+)
Welcome to Hard Times (1960) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:C+)
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (1898) - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) (Grade:C+)
Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood (2009) - Marc Ebner (1959-) (Grade:C+)
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001) - David Edmonds (-) (Grade:C+)
The Rage and The Pride (2002) - Oriana Fallaci (06/19/1930-) (Grade:C+)
Spartacus (1951) - Howard Fast (11/11/1914-03/12/2003) (Grade:C+)
White Oleander (1999) - Janet Fitch (-) (Grade:C+)
The Gods Will Have Blood [Les dieux ont soif] (1912) - Anatole France (04/16/1844-10/12/1924) (Grade:C+)
The Old Gringo (1985) - Carlos Fuentes (1928-) (Grade:C+)
The Beach (1997) - Alex Garland (5/26/1970
-) (Grade:C+)
The Best American Sports Writing : 2000 (2000) - Rick Geary (-) (Grade:C+)
Neuromancer (1984) - William Gibson (1948-) (Grade:C+)
Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) - Malcolm Gladwell (09/03/1963-) (Grade:C+)
The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) - Malcolm Gladwell (09/03/1963-) (Grade:C+)
Crime Partners (1971) - Donald Goines (12/15/1936
-10/21/1974) (Grade:C+)
Carter Beats the Devil (2001) - Glen David Gold (-) (Grade:C+)
The Spire (1964) - William Golding (9/19/1911
-6/19/1993) (Grade:C+)
No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II (1994) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943
-) (Grade:C+)
The Celebrant (1983) - Eric Rolfe Greenberg (-) (Grade:C+)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969) - Sam Greenlee (-) (Grade:C+)
A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (2007) - Charlotte Greig (1954-) (Grade:C+)
A Mathematician's Apology (1940) - G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) (Grade:C+)
A Discovery of Witches (2010) - Deborah E. Harkness (1965-) (Grade:C+)
A Civil Action (1995) - Jonathan Harr (-) (Grade:C+)
The Victim of Prejudice (1799) - Mary Hays (1759-1843) (Grade:C+)
Paco's Story (1986) - Larry Heinemann (1944-) (Grade:C+)
Zen in the Art of Archery (1953) - Eugen Herrigel (-) (Grade:C+)
The Unit (2009) - Ninni Holmqvist (1958-) (Grade:C+)
The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria (2001) - Mark Honigsbaum (-) (Grade:C+)
Peer Gynt (1867) - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) (Grade:C+)
Sacred Hoops : Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (1995) - Phil Jackson (-) (Grade:C+)
Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) - Jerry B. Jenkins (-) (Grade:C+)
The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work (1997) - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958) (Grade:C+)
If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture (2000) - Mark Gauvreau Judge (
-) (Grade:C+)
The Metamorphosis; and other stories (1915) - Franz Kafka (07/03/1883
-06/03/1924) (Grade:C+)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) - Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) (Grade:C+)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) - Paul Kennedy (6/17/1945
-) (Grade:C+)
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (1844) - Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5/05/1813
-11/11/1855) (Grade:C+)
Pet Sematary (1983) - Stephen King (09/21/1947
-) (Grade:C+)
Making Hay (1997) - Verlyn Klinkenborg (
-1952) (Grade:C+)
A Separate Peace (1960) - John Knowles (1926-) (Grade:C+)
Two-Part Invention : The Story of a Marriage (1988) - Madeleine L'Engle (11/29/1918
-09/06/2007) (Grade:C+)
Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) - Tim LaHaye (-) (Grade:C+)
The Walls of Jericho (1997) - Jon Land (-) (Grade:C+)
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006) - Bjorn Lomborg (01/06/1965-) (Grade:C+)
Nightmare in Pink (1964) - John D. MacDonald (7/24/1916
-12/28/1986) (Grade:C+)
H Is for Hawk (2016) - Helen MacDonald (1970
-) (Grade:C+)
Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009) - Gregory Maguire (06/09/1954-) (Grade:C+)
Palace of Desire: Book II of the Cairo Trilogy (1957) - Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) (Grade:C+)
Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) - Andrei Makine (1957-) (Grade:C+)
The Volga Rises in Europe (1951) - Curzio Malaparte (6/09/1898
-7/19/1957) (Grade:C+)
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) - W. Somerset Maugham (1/25/1874
-12/16/1965) (Grade:C+)
The Glass Room (2009) - Simon Mawer (1948-) (Grade:C+)
Child of God (1973) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933
-06/13/2023) (Grade:C+)
How to Hack a Party Line: the Democrats and Silicon Valley (2001) - Sara Miles (-) (Grade:C+)
The Red House Mystery (1922) - A.A. Milne (1882-1956) (Grade:C+)
Becoming Madame Mao (2000) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-) (Grade:C+)
The Blood of the Covenant : A Novel of the Vampiric (1995) - Brent Monahan (-) (Grade:C+)
Created, the Destroyer (1971) - Warren Murphy (9/13/1933-9/04/2015) (Grade:C+)
A Book of Five Rings (1645) - Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) (Grade:C+)
Vital Signs : Music, Movies and Other Manias (1998) - Ian Penman (1959-) (Grade:C+)
The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916
-05/10/1990) (Grade:C+)
The War in 2020 (1991) - Ralph Peters (1952-) (Grade:C+)
A Time of War (1990) - Michael Peterson (-) (Grade:C+)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello (1867
-1936) (Grade:C+)
Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship (1997) - James Prosek (1975-) (Grade:C+)
The End of Time?: The Provocation of Talking about God (1999) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-) (Grade:C+)
Airing Dirty Laundry (1993) - Ishmael Reed (2/22/1938
-) (Grade:C+)
Torture and Democracy (2007) - Darius Rejali (-) (Grade:C+)
Dreaming Jungles [Les Jungles Pensives] (1985) - Michel Rio (-) (Grade:C+)
Selected Poems of Edward Arlington Robinson () - Edwin Arlington Robinson (12/22/1869-04/05/1935) (Grade:C+)
The Scalpel and the Butterfly : The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection (2000) - Deborah Rudacille (-) (Grade:C+)
We Cast a Shadow (2019) - Maurice Carlos Ruffin (
-) (Grade:C+)
The Night Crew (1997) - John Sandford (-) (Grade:C+)
The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1934-) (Grade:C+)
A Choice Not an Echo (1964) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924-) (Grade:C+)
The 10 Commandments : The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life (1998) - Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947-) (Grade:C+)
The Weight of Water (1996) - Anita Shreve (-) (Grade:C+)
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy (2009) - Bill Simmons (09/25/1969-) (Grade:C+)
Nightwing (1977) - Martin Cruz Smith (-) (Grade:C+)
A Simple Plan (1993) - Scott Smith (-) (Grade:C+)
Men in Black (1995) - Scott Spencer (-) (Grade:C+)
I, the Jury (1947) - Mickey Spillane (1918-) (Grade:C+)
On the Edge (1998) - Patrick St Aubyn (1960
-) (Grade:C+)
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990) - Shelby Steele (1946
-) (Grade:C+)
All Too Human : A Political Education (1999) - George Stephanopoulos (1961-) (Grade:C+)
The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed (1986) - David Stockman (-) (Grade:C+)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) - William Styron (6/11/1925
-11/01/2006) (Grade:C+)
The Fathers (1938) - Allen Tate (11/18/1899
-2/09/1979) (Grade:C+)
A Test of Wills (1996) - Charles Todd (
-) (Grade:C+)
Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States V Oliver North (1991) - Jeffrey Toobin (-) (Grade:C+)
The 10 Commandments : The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life (1998) - Rabbi Stewart Vogel (-) (Grade:C+)
The Unborn : The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei 1622-1693 (2000) - Norman Waddell (-) (Grade:C+)
Bulow Hammock : Mind in a Forest (1988) - David Rains Wallace (-) (Grade:C+)
The Sculptress (1993) - Minette Walters (-) (Grade:C+)
The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862
-8/11/1937) (Grade:C+)
Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History (2009) - Douglas Wilson (06/18/1953-) (Grade:C+)
An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (2008) - Jacqueline Winspear (-) (Grade:C+)
A Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882
-3/28/1941) (Grade:C+)
Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908
-11/28/1960) (Grade:C+)
Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) - Marguerite Yourcenar (6/08/1903
-12/17/1987) (Grade:C+)
Panama (1995) - Eric Zencey (-) (Grade:C+)
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