Books Reviewed: Sorted by title
(B)
Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Grade:A)
The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery (2002) - Ruth Rendell (02/17/1930-) (Grade:B+)
Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (2001) - Tyler Bridges (-) (Grade:B-)
Bad Traffic : An Inspector Jian Novel (2008) - Simon Lewis (-) (Grade:B-)
Baghdad Sketches (1933) - Freya Stark (05/09/1893-1993) (Grade:A-)
Baghdad Without a Map : And Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991) - Tony Horwitz (1958-) (Grade:A)
Balsamic Dreams : A Short But Self-important History of the Baby Boomer Generation (2001) - Joe Queenan (1950-) (Grade:B-)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000) - Dai Sijie (03/02/1954-) (Grade:B+)
 Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) - Mark Harris (1922-) (Grade:A+)
Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-) (Grade:A-)
Bannerman's Ghosts (2003) - John R. Maxim (1937-) (Grade:B)
Baptism for the Dead (1988) - Robert R. Irvine (-) (Grade:A)
Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) (Grade:A+)
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares (2008) - Matthew Honan (-) (Grade:A+)
The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (1997) - Richard Fletcher (03/28/1944-02/28/2005) (Grade:A+)
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Grade:A-)
The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000) - Karen Armstrong (-) (Grade:D+)
The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2000) - Richard J. Overy (-) (Grade:A)
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-) (Grade:B+)
The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (-) (Grade:A+)
The Beach (1997) - Alex Garland (1970-) (Grade:C+)
The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994) - Jonathan Weiner (-) (Grade:B-)
The Bear (1942) - William Faulkner (1897-1962) (Grade:B+)
Beau Geste (1924) - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) (Grade:A-)
A Beautiful Mind : A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 (1998) - Sylvia Nasar (-) (Grade:C)
Becket or The Honor of God (1960) - Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) (Grade:A)
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 (2006) - Jeff Sypeck (-) (Grade:A)
Becoming Madame Mao (2000) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-) (Grade:C+)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) - Laurie R. King (-) (Grade:C)
Before and After (1992) - Rosellen Brown (05/12/1939-) (Grade:C)
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) - Rick Perlstein (1969-) (Grade:A)
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life (2009) - Michael Greenberg (1952-) (Grade:B)
The Beggar's Opera (1728) - John Gay (1685-1732) (Grade:A)
Being There (1970) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) (Grade:B-)
A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (1914-1993) (Grade:B+)
Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (1931-) (Grade:F)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) - Lew Wallace (1827-1905) (Grade:A+)
A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-) (Grade:C)
Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts (2005) - Robert Zubrin (-) (Grade:A)
Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger (2005) - Michael S. Rose (1969-) (Grade:A)
Benjamin Franklin (2002) - Edmund S. Morgan (01/17/1916-) (Grade:A)
Beowulf (8th Century?) - Burton Raffel (1930-) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A+)
The Best American Sports Writing : 2000 (2000) - Rick Geary (-) (Grade:C+)
Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000) - Laurie Garrett (-) (Grade:F)
Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (1999) - Bill Gertz (-) (Grade:C)
A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) - Lewis Sorley (1934-) (Grade:A)
Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century (1996) - William J. Clinton (1946-) (Grade:D)
Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000) - Giles Milton (-) (Grade:A)
The Big Clock (1946) - Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) (Grade:B-)
The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) (Grade:A+)
Billy Bathgate (1989) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:C)
Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Grade:A-)
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940 (2001) - Gary Giddins (03/21/1948-) (Grade:A+)
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994) - Anne Lamott (-) (Grade:D)
The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) - Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) (Grade:B+)
The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009) - Ted Gioia (10/21/1957-) (Grade:A-)
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) (Grade:C)
The Birthmark (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) (Grade:A)
Black and Blue (1997) - Ian Rankin (1960-) (Grade:A+)
Black and Blue (1998) - Anna Quindlen (1952-) (Grade:D+)
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) - Anna Sewell (1820-1878) (Grade:B-)
Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C)
Black Dahlia (1987) - James Ellroy (1948-) (Grade:A-)
The Black Dudley Murder (1929) - Margery Allingham (05/20/1904-06/30/1966) (Grade:C+)
Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) (Grade:A-)
Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War (1999) - Mark Bowden (1951-) (Grade:A+)
Black Narcissus (1939) - Rumer Godden (1907-1998) (Grade:B)
Black Robe (1985) - Brian Moore (1921-1999) (Grade:B+)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960-) (Grade:C)
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (1968) - Phillip K. Dick (1929-1982) (Grade:B+)
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (1998) - Annette Lawrence Drew (-) - Christopher Drew (-) - Sherry Sontag (-) (Grade:B+)
Blood and Chocolate (1997) - Annette Curtis Klause (1953-) (Grade:B+)
Blood and Thunder: A Nathan Heller Novel (1995) - Max Allan Collins (1948-) (Grade:A)
The Blood of the Covenant : A Novel of the Vampiric (1995) - Brent Monahan (-) (Grade:C+)
The Blood of the Lamb (1992) - Thomas Monteleone (1946-) (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)
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (2008) - Chuck Culpepper (-) (Grade:C-)
Blue Chipper : A Morgan Hunt Novel (1992) - Geoffrey Norman (-) (Grade:A)
The Blue Hammer (1976) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915-07/11/1983) (Grade:A)
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002) - Tony Horwitz (1958-) (Grade:B+)
Blue River (1991) - Ethan Canin (-) (Grade:D)
Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) - David Brooks (-) (Grade:C)
Body Count: Moral Poverty...and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drug (1996) - John P. Walters (-) - John DiIulio Jr. (-) - William J. Bennett (1943-) (Grade:B-)
Bone (1993) - Fae Myenne Ng (1957-) (Grade:B+)
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page () - G.B. Edwards (-) (Grade:A+)
A Book of Five Rings (1645) - Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) (Grade:C+)
The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-) (Grade:A+)
The Book of Trouble : A Romance (2006) - Ann Marlowe (1958-) (Grade:B+)
The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993) - Rick Geary (-) (Grade:A+)
The Book That Jack Wrote (1994) - Jon Scieszka (1954-) (Grade:B)
Booked to Die (1992) - John Dunning (-) (Grade:A)
Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (2001) - Adam Sisman (-) (Grade:A+)
The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem (2002) - Frederick Glaysher (1954-) (Grade:B+)
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000) - Robert D. Putnam (1940-) (Grade:B)
Brain Storm (1998) - Richard Dooling (-) (Grade:A)
The Brain that Changes Itself (2007) - Norman Doidge (-) (Grade:A-)
The Brave Cowboy: an Old Tale in a New Time (1956) - Edward Abbey (1927-1989) (Grade:B+)
Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) (Grade:A)
Brazzaville Beach (1990) - William Boyd (1952-) (Grade:A)
The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (1987) - Richard A. Watson (02/23/1931-) (Grade:A)
Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (2001) - Michael Watkins (-) (Grade:B+)
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) - Edwidge Danticat (1969-) (Grade:C-)
Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (1941-) (Grade:C)
Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) (Grade:C)
The Bridge at No Gun Ri : A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War (2001) - Charles J. Hanley (-) (Grade:D)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) (Grade:C)
The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) (Grade:A+)
Bridge to Terabithia (1977) - Katherine Paterson (1932-) (Grade:A)
A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) - Stephen W. Hawking (1942-) (Grade:B-)
Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1955-) (Grade:A)
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-) (Grade:C)
The Broken Shore (2005) - Peter Temple (1946-) (Grade:A)
Brotherly Love (1991) - Pete Dexter (-) (Grade:B-)
Brownsville (2006) - Neil Kleid (-) (Grade:B)
Buffalo Soldiers (1996) - Tom Willard (-) (Grade:C)
Bulow Hammock : Mind in a Forest (1988) - David Rains Wallace (-) (Grade:C+)
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999) - Wole Soyinka (1934-) (Grade:D)
The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971) - Charles Willeford (1919-1988) (Grade:A)
BUtterfield 8 (1935) - John O'Hara (1905-1970) (Grade:B+)
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (2008) - Martin Lindstrom (1970-) (Grade:B+)
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