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Books Reviewed (By review date):

Treason's Harbour (1983) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-Sep-23)

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine (2023) - S. C. Gwynne (1953-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Sep-23)

Created, the Destroyer (1971) - Warren Murphy (9/13/1933-9/04/2015)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-23)

Anna Karenina (1875-77) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828 -11/20/1910)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-23)

The Picture in the House (1921) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (8/20/1890 -3/15/1937)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-22)

The Picture in the House (1921) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (8/20/1890 -3/15/1937)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-22)

Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010) - Anca Parvulescu (1976?-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-22)

All the Way Down (1953) - M. E. Chaber (7/25/1910-11/29/1981)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 11-Dec-22)

The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra) (1521) - Niccolo Machiavelli (5/03/1469 -6/21/1527)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-21)

Child of God (1973) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-21)

The Verificationist (2000) - Donald Antrim (1958 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-21)

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+) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-21)

Who Really Won the Battle of Marathon?: A bold re-appraisal of one of history’s most famous battles (2020) - Constantinos Lagos (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Sep-21)

Life with Bingo (2021) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Jul-21)

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad (2013) - Lesley Hazelton (1945-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Jun-21)

The Graduate (1963) - Charles Richard Webb (6/09/1939 -6/16/2020)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 11-Jun-21)

So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) - William Maxwell (08/16/1908-07/31/2000)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Jun-21)

Washington Square (1880) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 06-May-21)

Cujo (1981) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 06-May-21)

The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2000) - Jeffrey Rosen (02/13/1964 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-Mar-21)

The Lost Gardens of Heligan (1996) - Tim Smit (09/25/1954-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Mar-21)

The Kreutzer Sonata [Kreytserova sonata] (1889) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828 -11/20/1910)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-21)

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) - Bill Bryson (12/08/1951-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-21)

One Summer: America, 1927 (2013) - Bill Bryson (12/08/1951-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-21)

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa (2004) - Charles Brandt (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-21)

Metropolis () - Philip Kerr (1956-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-21)

Embers [A gyertyák csonkig égnek--The Candles Burn Down to Stubs] (1942) - Sandor Marai (4/11/1900-February 21, 1989) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Feb-21)

Hombre (1961) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Feb-21)

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) - Ursula K. Le Guin (10/21/1929 -1/22/2018)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 31-Jan-21)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-21)

Gunnar's Daughter [Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis] (1909) - Sigrid Undset (05/20/1882 -06/10/1949)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-21)

Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights (2017) - Steven Levingston (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-21)

The Brethren (The Fortunes of France, Volume 1) (1977) - Robert Merle (8/28/1908-3/27/2004) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Jan-21)

Red Plenty (2010) - Francis Spufford (1963 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jan-21)

Bruno, Chief of Police: A Mystery of the French Countryside (2007) - Martin Walker ( 1/23/1947-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-21)

The Unseen [De Usynlige] (2013) - Roy Jacobsen (12/26/1954-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-21)

On the Abolition of All Political Parties (1943) - Simone Weil (02/03/1909 -08/24/1943)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-20)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix () - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-20)

The Informer (1925) - Liam O'Flaherty (08/28/1896-09/07/1984)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-20)

After the Banquet [Utage no Ato] (1960) - Yukio Mishima (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-20)

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (2007) - Norman F. Cantor (11/19/1929-09/18/2004)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-20)

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (2007) - Norman F. Cantor (11/19/1929-09/18/2004)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-20)

'Salem's Lot (1975) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 24-Dec-20)

A Little Life (2015) - Hanya K Yanagihara (09/20/1974 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 19-Dec-20)

Amsterdam (1998) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-20)

How Democracies Die (2018) - Steven Levitsky (01/17/1968-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-20)

The Trojan War : A New History (2006) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-20)

We Cast a Shadow (2019) - Maurice Carlos Ruffin ( -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 07-Dec-20)

Red Pill (2020) - Hari Kunzru (1969 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-20)

Only a Promise of Beauty: The Place of Beauty in the World of Art (2007) - Alexander Nehamas (03/22/1946-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-20)

How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians [Commentariolum Petitionis] (2012) - Quintus Tullius Cicero (102 BC -43 BC)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-20)

The Sound of Waves [Shiosai] (1954) - Yukio Mishima (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-20)

The Long Ships (1941/45) - Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (10/04/1894-12/19/1954) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Oct-20)

White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Race (2018) - Robin DiAngelo (09/08/1956 -) (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 20-Sep-20)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) (2007) - Simon Armitage (05/26/1963 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Sep-20)

The Trial [Der Process] (1925) - Franz Kafka (07/03/1883 -06/03/1924)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 07-Sep-20)

The Meursault Investigation (2013) - Kamel Daoud (06/17/1970 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 05-Sep-20)

Walking (1862) - Henry David Thoreau (07/12/1817 -05/06/1862)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Sep-20)

The Thirty-nine Steps (1915) - John Buchan (08/26/1875 -02/11/1940)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-20)

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (2008) - Mark Harris (11/25/1963 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-20)

Another Man’s Moccasins (2008) - Craig Johnson (01/16/1961 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Aug-20)

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 13-Aug-20)

Skinwalkers (1986) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 13-Aug-20)

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) - Samuel Johnson (09/18/1709 -12/13/1784)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-20)

The Whale Rider (1987) - Witi Ihimaera (2/07/1944-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-20)

The Enchanted April (1922) - Elizabeth von Arnim (08/31/1866 -02/09/1941)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-20)

The Wrong Side of Paris [L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine] (1840-48) - Honore de Balzac (05/20/1799 -08/18/1850)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-20)

The Athenian Murders (2000) - Jose Carlos Somoza (11/13/1959-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-20)

The Damned Season [L'estate torbida] (1991) - Carlo Lucarelli (10/26/1960-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-20)

The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance (2017) - Ben Sasse (02/22/1972 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 16-Jul-20)

The Dice Man (1971) - Luke Rhinehart (11/15/1932 -11/06/2020)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-20)

Hillbilly Elegy (2016) - J. D. Vance (08/02/1984 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-20)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson (11/13/1850 -12/03/1894)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-20)

The Gods Will Have Blood [Les dieux ont soif] (1912) - Anatole France (04/16/1844-10/12/1924)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-20)

Journey into Fear (1940) - Eric Ambler (06/28/1909 -10/22/1998)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 05-Jul-20)

Flesh Wound : A John Marshall Tanner Mystery (1996) - Stephen Greenleaf (1942-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-20)

The Chinaman (1939) - Friedrich Glauser (02/04/1896-12/08/1938)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Jun-20)

Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985) - Alexander Nehamas (03/22/1946-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 26-Jun-20)

The Circle (2013) - Dave Eggers (03/12/1970 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 20-Jun-20)

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide (2016) - Charles Foster (1962 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Jun-20)

House of Leaves (2000) - Mark Z. Danielewski (03/05/1966-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 14-Jun-20)

The Spartacus War (2009) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-20)

The Shining (1977) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-20)

The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956) - William Ernest Bowman (09/30/1911-01/01/1985)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Jun-20)

The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974) - Edward C. Banfield (11/19/1916-09/30/1999)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-May-20)

No Country for Old Men (2005) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-May-20)

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (2016) - Angela Lee Duckworth (1970 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-May-20)

A False Spring (1975) - Pat Jordan (04/22/1941 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-May-20)

The Autobiography of an Idea (1924) - Louis Henry Sullivan (9/03/1856-4/14/1924)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-May-20)

Mother's Milk (2005) - Patrick St Aubyn (1960 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 22-May-20)

On the Edge (1998) - Patrick St Aubyn (1960 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 22-May-20)

Resurrection Bay (2015) - Emma Viskic (1968-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-May-20)

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty (2016) - Dan Jones (07/27/1981 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-May-20)

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism (2008) - Geoff Nicholson (03/04/1953-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-May-20)

Native Angels: A Peter Boone Novel (1995) - William Jaspersohn (1947-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-May-20)

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (2014) - Luke Harding (April 21, 1968-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-May-20)

Conservatism: from John Adams to Churchill (1956) - Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (08/05/1916 -05/19/2006)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 26-Apr-20)

The Black Spider [Die schwarze Spinne] (1842) - Jeremias Gotthelf (10/04/1797-10/22/1854)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-20)

Second Treatise of Government (1689) - John Locke (08/29/1632 -10/28/1704)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 16-Apr-20)

A Republic, If You Can Keep It (2019) - Neil McGill Gorsuch (08/29/1967 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 11-Apr-20)

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005) - Stephen Breyer (08/15/1938-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 11-Apr-20)

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -5/19/2023)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-20)

The Goblin Emperor (2014) - Katherine Addison (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-20)

The Pedestrian (1951) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-20)

Laura (1942/43) - Vera Louise Casparay (11/13/1899-06/13/1987)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-20)

Crescent Dawn (2010) - Clive Cussler (06/15/1931 -02/24/2020)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-20)

Norwood (1966) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-20)

The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life (2009) - David Lawday (1938-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-20)

The Volga Rises in Europe (1951) - Curzio Malaparte (6/09/1898 -7/19/1957)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-20)

The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds (2006) - Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1968-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Feb-20)

Death in Pont-Aven : A Case for Commissaire Dupin (2012) - Jean-Luc Bannalec (1966-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-20)

The Godfather (1969) - Mario Gianluigi Puzo (10/15/20 -07/02/99)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-20)

Last Seen Wearing (1952) - Hillary Baldwin Waugh (6/22/20-12/08/08)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-20)

Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art (1993) - Scott McCloud (06/10/1960-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-19)

The Plotters (2010) - Un-Su Kim (1972-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-19)

Bomber's Moon (2019) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Nov-19)

Dark Matter (2016) - Blake Crouch (1978-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Nov-19)

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (2016) - Lee Siegel (1957-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Nov-19)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (1974) - Nicholas Meyer (12/24/45 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Oct-19)

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (44 BC) - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC -12/07/43 BC) - Philip Freeman (1961 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Oct-19)

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness (2014) - Russ Roberts (09/19/1954 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 16-Sep-18)

Bambi: A Life in the Woods (1923) - Felix Salten (09/06/1869 -10/08/1945)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Jul-18)

The Long Night Of The Watchman: Essays 1977-1989 (2018) - Vaclav Benda (8/08/1946 -6/02/1999)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Jun-18)

H Is for Hawk (2016) - Helen MacDonald (1970 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-17)

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (2017) - Jimmy Soni ( -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Jul-17)

The Duke's Children (1879) - Anthony Trollope (04/24/1815-12/06/1882)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-May-17)

Out of the Park Baseball 17 (2017) - Out of the Park Baseball 17 ( -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-16)

The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (2015) - William McCants (1975-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-16)

Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille (1949) - Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1905 -10/18/1970)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 17-Jul-16)

The Curve (2016) - Jeremy Blachman ( -) - Cameron Stracher (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Jul-16)

The House of Daniel: A novel of miracles, magic, and minor league ball (2016) - Harry Turtledove (06/14/1949-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-May-16)

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1785) - George Cruikshank (09/27/1792-02/01/1878) - Rudolph Erich Raspe (March 1736-November 1794)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-16)

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain (2016) - Dario Fernandez-Morera ( -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-16)

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-16)

Out Stealing Horses (2003) - Per Petterson (07/18/1952 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Jan-16)

A Voyage Around My Room (1795) - Xavier de Maistre (1763-06/12/1852)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 24-Jan-16)

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex (2015) - Michael Hitzlik (11/09/52 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-15)

How the West Won : The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014) - Rodney Stark (07/08/1934 -07/21/22) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-15)

The Confessor (20014) - Mark Allen Smith ( -) (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 16-Aug-15)

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) - Eric Newby (12/06/1919-10/20/2006)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-15)

The Martian (2011) - Andy Weir ( -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Jul-15)

Shop Class as Soulcraft : An Inquiry into the Value of Work (2009) - Matthew B. Crawford (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-15)

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (2014) - Charles Spencer (05/20/1964-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-May-15)

The Tehran Conviction (2010) - Tom Gabbay (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-15)

Compulsion (1956) - Meyer Levin (10/07/1905 -07/09/1981)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 20-Mar-15)

The Middle Kingdom Ride (2013) - Ryan Pyle (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-15)

Wilt : Larger than Life (2004) - Robert Cherry (1943-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-15)

In the Night of Time (2009) - Antonio Munoz Molina (01/10/1956-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-15)

The Train to Crystal City : : FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (2015) - Jan Jarboe Russell (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Mar-15)

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2012) - Joel Dicker (06/16/1985-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Mar-15)

My Struggle: Book 2 A Man in Love (2010) - Karl Ove Knausgaard (12/06/1960 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-15)

The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac (2015) - Sharma Shields (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-15)

The Windup Girl (2009) - Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (08/06/1972-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 11-Feb-15)

Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion (2004) - Michael Holley (02/26/70-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-15)

Everyman's Poetry : R. S. Thomas (1996) - Ronald Stuart Thomas (03/29/1913-09/25/2000)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-15)

I Am Pilgrim (2013) - Terry Hayes (10/08/1951-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-15)

Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (1985) - William John Burley (08/01/1914-11/15/2002)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-15)

The Tatra Eagle (2012) - J. Victor Tomaszek (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-14)

Rock Crystal (1845) - Adalbert Stifter (10/23/1805 -01/28/1868)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Sep-14)

Light (2002) - M. John Harrison (07/26/1945 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Sep-14)

The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism (2008) - Thomas W. Evans (12/09/1930-06/11/2013)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-14)

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (2014) - Jason L. Riley (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-14)

The Sorrow of War (1991) - Bao Ninh (10/18/1952-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-14)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010) - Laura Hillenbrand (5/15/1967-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Sep-14)

A Day in the Bleachers (1955) - Arnold Hano (1922-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Aug-14)

The Rat Patrol (1966) - Norman A. Daniels (06/03/1905-07/19/1995)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-Aug-14)

Southern Cross: Annuit Coeptis (CSA Confederate States of America, Volume 1) (2013) - Dorvall (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 16-Aug-14)

Uncertain Justice : The Roberts Court and the Constitution (2014) - Laurence H. Tribe (10/10/1941 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Aug-14)

Turning the Black Sox White: The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey (2014) - Tim Hornbaker (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Aug-14)

Never Let Me Go (2005) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jul-14)

The Letter of Marque (Book 12) (1988) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Jul-14)

Walt Disney's Uncle Remus Stories (A Giant Golden Book) (1947) - Joel Chandler Harris (12/09/1845-07/03/1908)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-14)

The Setup Man (2014) - T. T. Monday (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-14)

Three War Stories (2013) - David Mamet (11/30/1947-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-14)

The Old Limey (2001) - H. W. Crocker III (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 16-Nov-13)

Brilliant Orange (2000) - David Winner (1956-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Sep-13)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) - Laurence Sterne (11/24/1713 -03/18/1768)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 02-Aug-13)

America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America's Greatest Days Are Yet to Come (2013) - James C. Bennett (1948-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-Jul-13)

The Princess of Burundi (Ann Lindell Mysteries) (2002) - Kjell Eriksson (1953-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-13)

The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness (1989) - John Haines (06/29/1924-03/02/2011)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 08-Jul-13)

He Died With His Eyes Open (1984) - Derek Raymond (06/12/1931-07/30/1994)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-13)

Norwegian Wood (1987) - Haruki Murakami (01/12/1949 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-13)

Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt (2008) - Joyce Tyldesley (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-13)

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism (2003) - Catalin Avramescu (07/12/1967-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-13)

My Planet : Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (2013) - Mary Roach ( 03/29/1959 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-13)

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003) - David Foster Wallace (02/21/1962 -09/12/2008)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 22-Jun-13)

At Drake's Command: The adventures of Peregrine James during the second circumnavigation of the world (Volume 1) (2012) - David Wesley Hill (1956-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-13)

The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950 (2009) - James R. Lothian (1969 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-13)

Mandarin Gate (2012) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-13)

Reality (2003) - Peter Kingsley (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-12)

Lonesome Animals (2012) - Bruce Holbert (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 08-Jul-12)

Patrick O'Brian : A Life Revealed (2000) - Dean King (1962-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-12)

The Inquisitor (2012) - Mark Allen Smith ( -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-Mar-12)

The Moral Foundations of Economic Behavior (2011) - David C Rose (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-12)

Black Sunday (1975) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-12)

Ephemera (2009) - Jeffery M. Anderson (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-12)

Little bets : how breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries (2011) - Peter Sims (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-12)

Modern and American Dignity : Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future (2010) - Peter Augustine Lawler (07/30/1951 -05/23/2017)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Jan-12)

Seeking Whom He May Devour (1999) - Fred Vargas (1957-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Jan-12)

Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (2011) - Daniel J. Flynn (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Jan-12)

The Great Fat Fraud: Why the "Obesity Epidemic" Isn't, How to Be Totally Healthy without Losing Weight and If You Should Lose Some Pounds, How to Keep Them from Finding You Again (2011) - Mike Schatzki (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-12)

Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America (2011) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 15-Dec-11)

AAA (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-11)

Empire (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-11)

Operation Napoleon (2003) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-11)

Ashes of the Earth (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-11)

Lake Charles (2011) - Ed Lynskey (1956-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 22-Jul-11)

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (2011) - Steven Levy (1951-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-11)

Miracle on the Gridiron (2009) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Jun-11)

A European Education (1945) - Romain Gary (05/08/1914 -12/02/1980)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-11)

River of Darkness: A John Madden Mystery (1999) - Rennie Airth (1935-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-11)

Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! (2010) - Douglas Coupland (12/30/1961-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 11-Apr-11)

Home Field: Nine Writers at Bat (1997) - John Douglas Marshall (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-11)

A Discovery of Witches (2010) - Deborah E. Harkness (1965-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 28-Mar-11)

Hadrian the Seventh (1904) - Frederick Rolfe (07/22/1860-10/25/1913)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-11)

Catching Fire (2009) - Suzanne Collins (1963?-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-11)

American Subversive (2010) - David Goodwillie (03/25/1972 -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Jan-11)

Past Master (1968) - R. A. Lafferty (11/07/1914 -03/18/2002) (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-11)

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009) - David Grann (03/10/1967 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-11)

The Neon Rain (1987) - James Lee Burke (12/05/1936-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-11)

Rise of a Dynasty: The ’57 Celtics, the First Banner, and the Dawning of a New America (2010) - Bill Reynolds (1945-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 11-Jan-11)

The Reapers Are the Angels (2010) - Alden Bell (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-11)

Hare Sitting Up (Inspector Appleby Mystery) (1959) - Michael Innes (09/30/1906-11/12/1994)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-11)

Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson (2010) - Kent Gustavson (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-10)

City of Veils (2010) - Zoë Ferraris (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-10)

The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff (2010) - Joseph Epstein (01/09/1937 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-10)

Spies of the Balkans (2010) - Alan Furst (02/20/1941-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-10)

Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present (2010) - George C. Szpiro (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Dec-10)

The Battle of Marathon (2010) - Peter Krentz (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Nov-10)

Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America (2009) - James McCommons (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-10)

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) - Michael Korda (10/08/1933 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-Aug-10)

The Waste Land: An Entertainment (2010) - Simon Acland (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jul-10)

Johnny Porno (2010) - Charlie Stella (06/01/1956-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-10)

White Shaka Boy (2009) - Alan Brody (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Jul-10)

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010) - Clay Shirky (1964-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-10)

The Brendan Voyage (1978) - Tim Severin (1940-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-10)

The Line (2010) - Olga Grushin (1971-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-May-10)

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy (2009) - Bill Simmons (09/25/1969-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 02-May-10)

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010) - John Mueller (1937-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Apr-10)

Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2009) - Francis Wheen (01/22/1957-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 25-Apr-10)

The Big Picture: Essential Business Lessons from the Movie (2010) - Kevin Coupe (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-10)

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran (2010) - Reza Khalili (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 21-Apr-10)

Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture (2009) - Malcolm Millais (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 03-Apr-10)

The Glass Room (2009) - Simon Mawer (1948-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Apr-10)

Vienna Secrets: A Max Liebermann Mystery : Volume Four of the Liebermann Papers (2009) - Frank Tallis (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 17-Mar-10)

The Midnight House (2010) - Alex Berenson (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-10)

The Hunger Games (2008) - Suzanne Collins (1963?-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-10)

Deep and Crisp and Even (1981) - Peter Turnbull (1950-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-09)

The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2010) - Matthew Beynon Rees (1967-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-09)

Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009) - Gregory Maguire (06/09/1954-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-09)

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+) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-09)

Revelation Space (2000) - Alastair Preston Reynolds (1966-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 26-Dec-09)

Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (2009) - Darrell Griffin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-09)

Heart of the Assassin (2009) - Robert Ferrigno (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-09)

Revolutionary Road (1961) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-Nov-09)

Cold Blood (2009) - James Fleming (1944-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-09)

For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (1999) - Jedediah Purdy (1974-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-09)

The Road (2006) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Nov-09)

The Devil's Star [Marekors] (2003) - Jo Nesbo (03/29/1960 -) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Oct-09)

The Draining Lake : A Reykjavik Thriller (2004) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-09)

Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) (1965) - Bohumil Hrabal (03/28/1914-02/03/1997)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-09)

When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Martha Henissart (1929-) - Mary J. Latsis (07/12/1927-10/29/1997)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-09)

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life (2009) - Michael Greenberg (1952-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-09)

The Sins of the Fathers (1976) - Lawrence Block (06/24/1938-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-09)

In the Heat (2008) - Ian Vasquez (1966-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-09)

The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1) (2007) - Steven James (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-09)

Red to Black (2008) - Alex Dryden (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Aug-09)

The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009) - Ted Gioia (10/21/1957 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Aug-09)

The Shack (2007) - William Paul Young (05/11/1955-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 12-Aug-09)

Gold from Gemini (1978) - Jonathan Gash (09/30/1933-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Aug-09)

Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) (1998) - Margaret Peterson Haddix (04/09/1964-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-09)

Rogue Male (1939) - Geoffrey Household (11/30/1900-10/04/1988)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Aug-09)

Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) - Malcolm Gladwell (09/03/1963-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 02-Aug-09)

The Last Good Kiss (1978) - James Arthur Crumley (10/12/1939 -09/17/2008)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Jul-09)

The Death of a Pope (2009) - Piers Paul Read (03/07/1941-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jul-09)

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975) - David Nobbs (03/13/1935-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Jul-09)

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (2008) - Jonathan Wilson (-) (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-Jul-09)

When the Whistle Blows (2009) - Fran Cannon Slayton (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Jul-09)

Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (2008) - Chuck Culpepper (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-09)

In Good Hands: A Harpur & Iles Mystery (2000) - Bill James (08/15/1929-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Jul-09)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) - Stieg Larsson (08/15/1954-11/09/2004)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-09)

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) (Reviewed: 26-Jun-09)

A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (2007) - Charlotte Greig (1954-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 26-Jun-09)

From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States) (2008) - George C. Herring (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-09)

Among the Thugs : The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence (1991) - Bill Buford (1954-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-09)

The Case of the Missing Servant : A Vish Puri Mystery (2009) - Tarquin Hall (1969-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-09)

The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset (1994) - Geoffrey Douglas (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-09)

Every Man Dies Alone (1947) - Hans Fallada (07/21/1893 -02/05/1947)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-09)

The Unit (2009) - Ninni Holmqvist (1958-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-09)

A Quiet Flame (2009) - Philip Kerr (1956-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Jun-09)

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander Mysteries) (1994) - Henning Mankell (02/03/1948-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-09)

The Vanished: a Nameless Detective Novel (1973) - Bill Pronzini (04/13/1943-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Jun-09)

The Warlord's Son (2004) - Dan Fesperman (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-May-09)

The Zig-Zag Man: A Stone Angel Novel (1991) - Marvin H. Albert (01/22/1924-03/24/1996) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-May-09)

The World and the West (1953) - Arnold J. Toynbee (04/14/1889-10/22/1975)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-May-09)

The Blue Hammer (1976) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915 -07/11/1983)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-May-09)

Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood (2009) - Marc Ebner (1959-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-09)

The Little Sleep (2009) - Paul G. Tremblay (06/30/1971-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-09)

The All-New Illustrated Guide to Gardening: Now All Organic! (2009) - Trevor Cole (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 03-Apr-09)

Drood (2009) - Dan Simmons (04/04/1948-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-09)

Taking Aim at the President:The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot Gerald Ford (2008) - Geri Spieler (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-09)

John Wooden: An American Treasure (2004) - Steve Bisheff (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-09)

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2009) - Charlie Huston (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Mar-09)

Bad Traffic : An Inspector Jian Novel (2008) - Simon Lewis (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 01-Mar-09)

The Silent Man (2009) - Alex Berenson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-09)

The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America (2009) - Michael Rowan (1942-) - Douglas E. Schoen (1953-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-09)

The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom And Wit in the Wild West (2006) - Steve Sheinkin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Feb-09)

Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq (2008) - Thomas J. Craughwell (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 08-Feb-09)

The Myth of Digital Democracy (2009) - Matthew Hindman (1976-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-Jan-09)

The Faithful Spy (2006) - Alex Berenson (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Jan-09)

Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning (2008) - Kathleen Burk (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 24-Jan-09)

The White Tiger (2008) - Aravind Adiga (10/23/1974-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 21-Jan-09)

The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House (2001) - Benjamin R. Barber (08/02/1939-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-Jan-09)

Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built" (2008) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-09)

Zodiac (1986) - Robert Graysmith (09/17/1942-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-08)

War and the Liberal Conscience (Trevelyan Lectures) (1978) - Michael Eliot Howard (11/29/1922-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-08)

Omega: The Unknown (2007-08) - Jonathan Lethem (1964 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-08)

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) (2008) - Jonathan Riley-Smith (06/27/1938-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-08)

How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (2008) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-08)

Trust: Self-interest and the Common Good (2008) - Marek Kohn (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-08)

Killing Rommel: A Novel (2008) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-08)

Silver: My Own Tale as Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder (2008) - Edward Chupack (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Dec-08)

We Interrupt This Broadcast : The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Virginia Tech Shooting (2008) - Joe Garner (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 19-Dec-08)

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge (2008) - Elizabeth King Humphrey (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-08)

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge (2008) - Elizabeth King Humphrey (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-08)

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (2008) - Martin Lindstrom (1970-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 10-Dec-08)

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares (2008) - Matthew Honan (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-08)

The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78 (2008) - Richard Bradley (-) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-08)

The Shootist (1975) - Glendon F. Swarthout (04/08/1918-09/23/1992)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-08)

Homeless and At Home in America : Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place (2007) - Peter Augustine Lawler (07/30/1951 -05/23/2017)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-08)

Public Opinion (1922) - Walter Lippmann (09/23/1889-12/14/1974)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 06-Oct-08)

The Consolation of the Shoes (2007) - Manolo the Shoeblogger (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Sep-08)

First Among Sequels (2007) - Jasper Fforde (01/11/1961-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Sep-08)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) - Rick Perlstein (1969 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 29-Sep-08)

The Broken Shore (2005) - Peter Temple (1946-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Sep-08)

Friday's Child (1944) - Georgette Heyer (08/16/1902 -07/04/1974)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Sep-08)

The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (2006) - Harold James (1956-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Sep-08)

The Brain that Changes Itself (2007) - Norman Doidge (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-08)

In the Woods (2007) - Tana French (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-08)

Child 44 (2008) - Tom Rob Smith (1979-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-08)

Sins of the Assassin (2008) - Robert Ferrigno (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Aug-08)

Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot (1974) - Erik Maria von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (07/31/1909-05/26/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Aug-08)

Volk's Game (2007) - Brent Ghelfi (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Jul-08)

Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field (2008) - Chris De Luca (-) - John Hanley (1962-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-08)

The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism (2007) - George McKenna (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-08)

Wave of Terror (1972) - Theodore Odrach (02/13/1912-10/07/1964)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-08)

Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels (November 1940/March 1943) - John Grange (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-08)

The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (2008) - Peter Navarro (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 16-Jun-08)

The Truth about Syria (2007) - Barry Rubin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-May-08)

Tracks (2007) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-May-08)

Silence of the Grave: A Reykjavik Thriller (2006) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-May-08)

Voices: A Reykjavik Thriller (2003) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-May-08)

Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller (2000) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-May-08)

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing (2007) - Bob Woodruff (08/18/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Apr-08)

An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (2008) - Jacqueline Winspear (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-08)

Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill (2003) - Michael Dobbs (11/14/1948-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-08)

Torture and Democracy (2007) - Darius Rejali (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Mar-08)

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (2007) - Mark Penn (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-Feb-08)

Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-08)

Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina (2007) - Neal Thompson (1965-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-08)

The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (2008) - Eugene Jarecki (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-08)

Shooting War (2007) - Dan Goldman (11/05/1974-) - Anthony Lappe (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-07)

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (2007) - Thomas Cathcart (-) - Daniel Klein (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-07)

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (2007) - Matthew Brzezinski (-) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Dec-07)

Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life (2007) - Scott Donaldson (1928-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-07)

America's Living History - The Early Years (A Traveler's Guide) (2007) - Suzanne & Craig Sheumaker (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-07)

Roman Blood (1991) - Steven Saylor (05/23/1956-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-07)

An Infamous Army (1937) - Georgette Heyer (08/16/1902 -07/04/1974)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Oct-07)

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) (2007) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Oct-07)

Desolation Island (1978) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Oct-07)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) - Max Michael Brooks (05/22/1972-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-07)

Resurrection Men (2003) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Oct-07)

The Miernik Dossier (1973) - Charles McCarry (1930-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-07)

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-07)

Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint (2007) - Bill Yenne (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 21-Sep-07)

Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 (2006) - Jeff Sypeck (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-07)

Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-07)

A Nail Through the Heart (2007) - Timothy Hallinan (1942-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-07)

Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power (2007) - Marcus Mabry (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-07)

Jake's Run (2006) - Jerome R. Mahoney (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-07)

The Shadowers (1964) - Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (03/24/1916-11/20/2006)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-07)

Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution (2007) - David A. Clary (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-07)

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. (2007) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927 -04/04/2018)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Jun-07)

Tell Me a Story: Timeless folktales from around the world (2006) - Amy Friedman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-May-07)

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (2007) - John Ghazvinian (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-07)

Calvin Coolidge : The American Presidents Series (2006) - David Greenberg (1968-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-07)

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Apr-07)

Christine Falls: A Novel (2006) - John Banville (12/08/1945 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-Apr-07)

On Humour (Thinking in Action) (2002) - Simon Critchley ( -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Mar-07)

H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-07)

Post Captain (1972) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-07)

Jar City : A Reykjavik Thriller (2005) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-07)

The Shadow of the Wind (2001) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (09/25/1964-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 20-Feb-07)

Death of a Red Heroine (2000) - Qiu Xiaolong (1953 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Feb-07)

The Physics of the Buffyverse (2006) - Jennifer Ouellette (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-07)

The Match: the day the game of golf changed forever (2007) - Mark Frost (11/25/1953-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Feb-07)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-07)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-07)

The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (2007) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-07)

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006) - Lawrence George Wright (08/02/1947 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-07)

The Oxford Murders [Crimenes Imperceptibles] (2005) - Guillermo Martinez (07/29/1962-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-07)

Falling Angel (1978) - William Hjortsberg (1941-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-07)

Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 (2006) - Eamon Duffy (1947 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Jan-07)

Sugartown : Amos Walker Mysteries (1984) - Loren D. Estleman (1952 -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-07)

Candide (or Optimism) (1759) - François-Marie Arouet (11/21/1694-05/30/1778) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jan-07)

Lightning Bird () - Lyall Watson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Civil War () - Shelby Foote (11/17/1916 -6/27/2005) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Trout Madness () - Robert Travers (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Perjury () - Allen Weinstein (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Case Closed () - Gerald Posner (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

The Crisis Years : Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963 () - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom () - Peter Guralnick ( -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Pitching in a Pinch () - Christy Mathewson (8/12/1880 -10/07/1925) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Against the Idols of the Age () - David Charles Stove (1927-1994) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War (1993) - Michael Kelly (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999) - George Weigel (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Capitalism and Freedom () - Milton Friedman (7/31/1912 -11/16/2002) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Modern Times () - Paul Johnson (11/02/1928 -1/12/2023) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

The Russian Revolution () - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples () - Winston S. Churchill (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates () - Harry V. Jaffa (10/07/1918 -01/10/2015) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940 (2001) - Gary Giddins (03/21/1948-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (2006) - Mark Moyar (5/12/1971 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Night Watch: A Novel [Nochnoi Dozor] (1998) - Andrew Bromfeld (-) - Sergei Lukyanenko (04/11/1968-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) (2006) - Naomi Novik (1973-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Saddam: King of Terror (2002) - Con Coughlin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Hyde & Shriek (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, #6) (2006) - Franklin W. Dixon ( -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-06)

Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-06)

"Excuse Me, But I Was Next...": How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas (2006) - Peggy Post (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 02-Dec-06)

The Hidden Assassins (2006) - Robert Wilson (1957-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-06)

Death and Judgment (1995) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Nov-06)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1998) - Edward John Larson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-06)

Let it Bleed (1996) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-06)

The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (2006) - David Kamp (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 26-Oct-06)

Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam (2006) - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (09/15/1942-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-06)

The Interpretation of Murder (2006) - Jed Rubenfeld (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-06)

The Daughters of Cain (1994) - Colin Dexter (1930-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-06)

Falls the Shadow (1988) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945 -1/22/2021)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-06)

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006) - Bjorn Lomborg (01/06/1965-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-06)

Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (2006) - Mark Liberman (-) - Geoffrey K. Pullum (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-06)

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis () - Leo Strauss (09/20/1899 -10/18/1973)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-06)

Eastern Approaches (1949) - Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean (03/11/1911-06/15/1996)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Sep-06)

One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (2005) - Bob Joseph Dole (07/22/1923-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 22-Sep-06)

Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution (2006) - Brian Mann (1965-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Sep-06)

Your Turn, Mr. Moto (1935) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-May-06)

Brownsville (2006) - Neil Kleid (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-May-06)

June 1941: Hitler and Stalin (2006) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 06-May-06)

The French Betrayal of America (2004) - Kenneth R. Timmerman (11/04/1953-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-May-06)

The Only Game in Town : Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved (2006) - Fay Vincent (05/29/1938-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 04-May-06)

The Devil's Halo (2005) - Chris Fox (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-May-06)

Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague () - Chayim Bloch (06/26/1881 -01/23/1973)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-May-06)

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) - George Lakoff (1941-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-06)

The Witchfinder: an Amos Walker Mystery (1998) - Loren D. Estleman (1952 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-06)

Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (2001) - Daniel Philpott (1967-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-06)

The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again (1992) - Robert L. Bartley (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-06)

Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith (1995) - Patti Davis (10/21/1952-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-06)

The Book of Trouble : A Romance (2006) - Ann Marlowe (1958-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-06)

Seven Days to the Sea: an Epic Novel of The Exodus (2006) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-06)

Redefining Sovereignty (March 2006) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-06)

The Underground Man (1971) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915 -07/11/1983) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-06)

The End of Time?: The Provocation of Talking about God (1999) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-) (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-06)

Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam (2006) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-06)

Solomon vs. Lord (2005) - Paul Levine (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-06)

Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1988) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-06)

Manliness (2006) - Harvey C. Mansfield (3/21/1932 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-06)

Jesus : a Novel (2005) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-06)

Rebel-in-Chief: How George W. Bush Is Redefining the Conservative Movement and Transforming America (2006) - Fred Barnes (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-06)

Captain Alatriste (1996) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-06)

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1985) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-06)

Lost: Secret Identity (2006) - Cathy Hapka (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-06)

Prayers for the Assassin (2006) - Robert Ferrigno (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Feb-06)

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-06)

The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-06)

State of Fear (2004) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-06)

The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-06)

Augustus (1973) - John Edward Williams (08/29/1922-03/03/1994)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-06)

Pursuit : An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (2003) - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-06)

The Wall: A Thriller (2006) - Jeff Long (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Jan-06)

The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (1987) - Richard A. Watson (02/23/1931-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Jan-06)

The Punic Wars (2000) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-06)

The Snow Goose (1941) - Paul Gallico (07/26/1897 -07/15/1976)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-06)

'46, Chicago (2002) - Steve Monroe (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-06)

The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture (1962) - Robert Warshow (1917-1955)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-Jan-06)

The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2005) - Michael Mandelbaum (1946-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-06)

The Wave (2006) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-06)

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture (2005) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-06)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: and A Man Called Horse, Lost Sister, The Hanging Tree (2005) - Dorothy Marie Johnson (12/19/1905-11/11/1984)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-06)

Emperor: The Gates of Rome (2003) - Conn Iggulden (1971-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-06)

Blood and Thunder: A Nathan Heller Novel (1995) - Max Allan Collins (1948-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-05)

The Shield of Achilles (2002) - Philip Bobbitt (07/22/1948 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-05)

The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982) - Martha Grimes (1931-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-05)

The Shepherd (1975) - Frederick Forsyth (08/25/1938-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Dec-05)

Ideas Have Consequences (1948) - Richard M. Weaver (3/03/1910 -4/01/1963)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-05)

Tony And Me: A Story of Friendship (2005) - Jack Klugman (04/27/1922-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-05)

The Agony of Christianity (1925) - Miguel de Unamuno (09/29/1864-12/31/1936)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-05)

Europe : A History (1996) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Dec-05)

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (1964) - Harry Kemelman (11/24/1908 -12/15/1996)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-05)

Twins : A Novel (2005) - Marcy Dermansky (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Dec-05)

The Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (2005) - Fawaz A. Gerges (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Dec-05)

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (2004) - Paul Clayton (1948-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Dec-05)

The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (1992) - Pete Earley (09/05/1951-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-05)

Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-Dec-05)

The Ramayana, as told by Aubrey Menen (1954) - Aubrey Menen (04/22/1912-02/13/1989)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 03-Dec-05)

Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine (2005) - Candice E. Jackson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-05)

The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) - Barbara Cleverly (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-05)

April 1865 : The Month that Saved America (2001) - Jay Winik (1957-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-05)

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (2003) - Nathaniel Philbrick (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Nov-05)

The Case For Democracy : The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) - Natan Sharansky (01/20/1948-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Nov-05)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000) - Dai Sijie (03/02/1954-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Nov-05)

Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993) - David Remnick (1958-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-05)

Fields of Force: Fischer and Spassky at Reykjavik (1974) - George Steiner (04/23/1929 -02/03/2020)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Nov-05)

Arguing About War (2004) - Michael Walzer ( -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Nov-05)

The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1834) - Honore de Balzac (05/20/1799 -08/18/1850)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-05)

Comes a Horseman (2005) - Robert Liparulo (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Nov-05)

Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger (2005) - Michael S. Rose (1969-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-05)

A Little History of the World (1936) - Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (03/30/1909 -11/03/2001)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 03-Nov-05)

The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Nov-05)

The Empty Beach (1983) - Peter Corris (1942-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Oct-05)

Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (1987) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-05)

Pocket Book of Patriotism (2005) - Jonathan Foreman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Oct-05)

Victory in Tripoli : How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation (2005) - Joshua E. London (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Oct-05)

Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It (2005) - Noah Feldman (1970-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Oct-05)

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (2005) - Marianne J. Legato (1935-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Oct-05)

The Pale Criminal (1990) - Philip Kerr (1956-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-05)

Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) - Jacob S. Hacker (-) (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 30-Sep-05)

Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) - Theodore Dalrymple (10/11/1949 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Sep-05)

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+) (Reviewed: 28-Sep-05)

Living It Up At National Review: A Memoir (2005) - Priscilla L. Buckley (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Sep-05)

The Shape of Water (1994) - Andrea Camilleri (9/06/1925 -7/17/2019)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Sep-05)

Faceless Killers (1991) - Henning Mankell (02/03/1948-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-05)

A Great Deliverance: an Inspector Lynley Mystery (1988) - Susan Elizabeth George (02/26/1949-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Aug-05)

Jannaway's Mutiny (2005) - Charles Gidley Wheeler (08/21/1938-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-05)

Treehouse Chronicles: One Man's Dream of Life Aloft (2005) - S. Peter Lewis (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-05)

The Black Dudley Murder (1929) - Margery Allingham (05/20/1904-06/30/1966)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-05)

Secret Mission to Bangkok (1960) - Francis van Wyck Mason (11/11/1901-08/28/1978)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-05)

Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong (1988) - Gary Giddins (03/21/1948-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-05)

The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (2004) - Kevin Nelson (1953-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-05)

Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (1998) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-05)

Is For Good Men To Do Nothing (2004) - Chris Verrill (1964-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-05)

Life of Johnson (1791) - James Boswell (10/29/1740 -05/19/1795)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-05)

Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821 -02/09/1881)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Jul-05)

Turtle Diary (1975) - Russell Conwell Hoban (02/04/1925-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 26-Jul-05)

The Raphael Affair (1992) - Iain Pears (1955-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Jul-05)

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (2005) - Jack El-Hai (12/01/1958 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 24-Jul-05)

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (2000) - Kang Chol-Hwan (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Jul-05)

Loving Soren (2005) - Caroline Coleman O'Neill (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-05)

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) - Thomas Frank (1965-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-05)

Edges: O Israel O Palestine (2005) - Leora Skolkin-Smith (1952-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Jul-05)

Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel (1978) - William F. Buckley, Jr. (11/24/1925 -2/27/2008)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-05)

Dissolution (2004) - C. J. Sansom (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-05)

Fat Ollie's Book : A Novel of the 87th Precinct (2002) - Ed McBain (10/15/1926 -07/06/2005)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-05)

Maigret in Montmartre (1959) - Georges Simenon (02/13/1903 -09/04/1989)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jul-05)

Strike Three, You're Dead (1984) - Richard Dean Rosen (1949-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-05)

Mixed Nuts: America's Love Affair with Comedy Teams from Burns and Allen to Belushi and Aykroyd (2004) - Lawrence J. Epstein (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-05)

Foolhardy Masonry (June 2005) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-05)

The Conquest of the United States (1949) - Archibald MacLeish (05/07/1892-04/20/1982)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Jun-05)

Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred (2005) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924 -)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 25-Jun-05)

Epitaph for a Spy (1952) - Eric Ambler (06/28/1909 -10/22/1998)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-05)

Dr. Sam Johnson: Detector (1946) - Lillian de la Torre (03/15/1902-1993)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-05)

Another November (1986) - Roger Grenier (1919-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 23-Jun-05)

The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-05)

The New New Left : How American Politics Works Today (2005) - Steven Malanga (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Jun-05)

Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (2001) - Adam Sisman (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Jun-05)

The Last King of Scotland (1998) - Giles Foden (1967-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-05)

Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts (2005) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-05)

The Lords of Navarre : A Basque Family Saga (2004) - José Maria Lacambra-Loizu (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-05)

Fredericksburg : Squandered Courage and Uncertain Allegiance (2004) - Wyatt Kingseed (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-05)

How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2001) - Robert Alan Dahl (1915-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 10-Jun-05)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2000) - Alan Moore (-11/18/1953)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Jun-05)

The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005) - John Ehrman (1959-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-May-05)

Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist (1991) - Roger B. Swain (02/05/1949-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-May-05)

Wall of Glass : A Joshua Croft Mystery (1987) - Walter Satterthwait ( -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-May-05)

No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005) - Reza Aslan (1972-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-May-05)

Goodey's Last Stand (1975) - Charles Alverson (10/13/1935-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-May-05)

With Fire and Sword (1883) - Henryk Sienkiewicz (05/05/1846 -11/15/1916) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-May-05)

The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-05)

Freak (1983) - Michael Collins (1924-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Apr-05)

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) - Stephen J. Dubner (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Apr-05)

South Park Conservatives : The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias (2005) - Brian C. Anderson (1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-05)

The Children of Men (1992) - P.D. James (08/03/1920 -11/27/2014)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-05)

Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future (2004) - Daniel Altman (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-05)

The Inn at the Edge of the World (1990) - Alice Thomas Ellis (09//09/1932-03/08/2005)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-05)

The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (2002) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Mar-05)

Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11 (2004) - Michael A. Smerconish (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-05)

Rosa (2005) - Jonathan Rabb (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-05)

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge (2003) - John L. Casti (1943-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-05)

River Season (There's a River Down in Texas) (2003) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-05)

Mozart: A Novel (2004) - Robert Howse (1958-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 31-Jan-05)

Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth (2002) - Judith Hooper (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-05)

On My Philosophy () - Karl Jaspers (02/23/1883-02/26/1969)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

The Concept of the Political (1927) - Carl Schmitt (07/11/1888 -04/07/1985)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967) - Stanley Eugene Fish (1938 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain (1995) - Benzion Netanyahu (3/25/1910 -4/30/2012)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

A Third Testament (1976) - Malcolm Muggeridge (03/24/1903 -11/14/1990)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Ada Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (2003) - Jennifer Niven (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) - David Hackett Fischer (1935 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

The Dog of the South (1979) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

Eagle In The Snow : A Novel of General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand (1970) - Wallace Breem (05/13/1926-1990)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

The Last Alchemist : Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason () - Iain McCalman (1947-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2004) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-04)

Remembrance of Things Past : Combray (1998) - Stephane Heuet (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-04)

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002) - Howard Rheingold (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-04)

Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004) - Bart D. Ehrman (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-04)

Evolution : The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles) (2004) - Edward John Larson (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-04)

The Librarian (2004) - Larry Beinhart (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 19-Nov-04)

The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II (2001) - Thomas Fleming (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-Nov-04)

Republicanism (1999) - Maurizio Viroli ( -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 11-Nov-04)

A Glass Half Full (2002) - Felix Dennis (1947-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Oct-04)

Football Physics: The Science of the Game (2004) - Timothy James Gay (03/23/1953-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Oct-04)

Terror and Liberalism (2003) - Paul Berman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-04)

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization () - Patrick J. Buchanan (11/02/1938 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-04)

The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (1997) - Richard Fletcher (03/28/1944-02/28/2005) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-04)

Gulag: A History (2003) - Anne Applebaum (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-04)

Allies: The U.S., Britain, and Europe, and the War in Iraq (2003) - William Shawcross (05/28/1946-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Aug-04)

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) - Gordon S. Wood (11/27/1933 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Jul-04)

Sandman: a Jean Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler Investigation (1996) - J. [Joseph] Robert Janes (1935-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Jul-04)

Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall (2004) - Chris Farrell (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Jul-04)

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (1978) - Ryszard Kapuscinski (03/04/1932 -01/23/2007)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-04)

The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2000) - Richard J. Overy (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Jul-04)

Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-04)

Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East (2003) - Martine Rothblatt (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-04)

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896 -07/23/1957)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-04)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) - Robert A. Caro (10/30/1935 -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 10-Jul-04)

A Close Run Thing : A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 (1999) - Allan Mallinson (-) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Jul-04)

A Noble Radiance (1998) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-04)

The Moon of Skulls (1930) - Robert Ervin Howard (01/22/1906-06/11/1936)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-04)

The Anatomy of Fascism (2004) - Robert O. Paxton (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 06-Jul-04)

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (2004) - Alafair S. Burke (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-04)

Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneid (2003) - Eve Adler (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-04)

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2004) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-04)

Fight Club (1996) - Chuck Palahniuk (02/21/1962 -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 31-May-04)

The Holy Land (2003) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-May-04)

Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War (2003) - Walter J. Boyne (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-May-04)

In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat (2004) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-May-04)

Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series (2003) - David Pietrusza (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-May-04)

GAME: MooT (1998) - Jon Steeves (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 10-May-04)

Hadrian's Wall (2004) - William Dietrich (09/29/1951-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 09-May-04)

The Gilded Chamber: A Tale of Queen Esther (2004) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Apr-04)

Anti-Americanism (2003) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Apr-04)

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001) - Theodore Dalrymple (10/11/1949 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-04)

Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History (2004) - Lee Harris (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-04)

Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society (1971) - Duncan Williams (-1985)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-04)

Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun (1971) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-04)

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+) (Reviewed: 10-Feb-04)

Knight of the Cross: A Story of the Crusades (1951) - Frederick Levi Coe ( -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-04)

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger (2003) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Jan-04)

The New Brain (2003) - Richard M. Restak (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-04)

Ghost Image (2002) - Joshua Gilder (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 11-Jan-04)

The Last Word (1997) - Thomas Nagel (07/04/1937 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 09-Jan-04)

Starship Troopers (1959) - Robert A. Heinlein (07/07/1907-1988)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-03)

One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought () - Ernst Mayr (07/05/1904-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-03)

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) - David Fromkin (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-03)

A Case of Conscience (1958) - James Blish (1921-1975)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-03)

Brain Storm (1998) - Richard Dooling (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Dec-03)

Albert Camus & Jean Grenier: Correspondence 1932-1960 (1981) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-03)

In, But Not Of : A Guide to Christian Ambition (2003) - Hugh Hewitt (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Nov-03)

Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series (2003) - Louis P. Masur (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Nov-03)

Kiddle-Y-Winks (2003) - Dorothy Corson Judd (09/04/1938-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Nov-03)

The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office (2003) - Gary Delsohn (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-03)

The Middle of the Night (2003) - Daniel Stolar (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-03)

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003) - Stanley Cloud (-) - Lynne Olson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Nov-03)

If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture (2000) - Mark Gauvreau Judge ( -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 09-Nov-03)

A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat (2003) - Zell Miller (02/24/1932-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Nov-03)

The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East (2003) - Sharon Hudgins (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-03)

Motherless Brooklyn (1999) - Jonathan Lethem (1964 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 14-Oct-03)

Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (1999) - Wesley J. Smith (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Oct-03)

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (2002) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Oct-03)

The Samurai (1980) - Shusaku Endo (1923-1996)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-03)

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003) - Fareed Zakaria (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Sep-03)

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2003) - Erik Larson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Sep-03)

Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (1999) - Paul C. Vitz (1935-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Sep-03)

Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003) - George M. Marsden ( -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-03)

Solaris (1961) - Stanislaw Herman Lem (09/21-22/1921 -03/27/2006)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-03)

Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader () - John Jay Chapman (03/02/1862-11/04/1933)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-03)

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) - Randy Martin Shilts (08/08/1951-02/17/1994)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-03)

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--On Earth and Beyond () - Martin J. Rees (06/23/1942 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-Aug-03)

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003) - James A. Morone (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 25-Aug-03)

The Two Faces of Liberalism (2000) - John Gray (4/17/1948 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-03)

What We Can't Not Know: A Guide (2003) - J. Budziszewski (1952 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Aug-03)

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002) - Ashley Kahn (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Aug-03)

Kaddish (1998) - Leon Wieseltier (1952 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-03)

Vietnam: The Necessary War: Grand Strategy, Domestic Politics, and the American War for Indochina () - Michael Lind (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-03)

The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe (1993) - Jamie James (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-03)

Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives (2002) - John A. Murley (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Jul-03)

The Minority Report (1954) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Jul-03)

The Old Religion in the New World: The History of North American Christianity (2001) - Mark A. Noll (7/18/1946 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Jul-03)

Judgment Calls (2003) - Alafair S. Burke (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 17-Jul-03)

The Destructors (1954) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-03)

The Story of the Other Wise Man (1896) - Henry Jackson van Dyke (11/10/1852-04/10/1933)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-03)

Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-03)

Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier (1982) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-03)

The American Republic: Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny (1866) - Orestes Augustus Brownson (09/16/1803 -1876)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Jul-03)

Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (2003) - Gina Kolata (02/25/1948-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-03)

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976) - Francis August Schaeffer (01/30/1912-1984)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-03)

I Praise My Destroyer () - Diane Ackerman (10/07/1948-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-03)

On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner () - William Graham Sumner (10/30/1840-04/12/1910)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-03)

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003) - Anthony Swofford (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-03)

My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message (2003) - Amitai Etzioni (1/24/1929 -5/31/2023)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-03)

A New Kind of Science (2002) - Stephen Wolfram (1959-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Jun-03)

Democracy in America (2000) - Harvey C. Mansfield (3/21/1932 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Jun-03)

Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992) - Dana Gioia (12/24/1950 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Jun-03)

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003) - David Halberstam (04/10/1934-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jun-03)

The Rage and The Pride (2002) - Oriana Fallaci (06/19/1930-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 01-Jun-03)

The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000) - Karen Armstrong (-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 30-May-03)

Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker (2003) - James McManus (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 20-May-03)

The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood (11/27/1933 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-May-03)

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) - Bill McKibben (1960-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 01-May-03)

Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (2002) - Andro Linklater (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-03)

Mantle of the Prophet : Religion and Politics in Iran (1985) - Roy Mottahedeh (1940-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 22-Apr-03)

The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit (2001) - A. J. Conyers (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Apr-03)

Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross (2000) - Richard John Neuhaus (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Apr-03)

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Orde (2003) - Robert Kagan ( -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Apr-03)

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - Chris Hedges (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-03)

The Last Jihad (2002) - Joel C. Rosenberg (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Apr-03)

In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays () - Frank S. Meyer (1909-1972)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Apr-03)

The Social Contract (1762) - Jean Jacques Rousseau (6/28/1712 -7/02/1778)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-03)

Vertigo (Schwindel. Gefuhle) (1990) - W. G. (Winfried Georg) Sebald (5/18/1944 -12/14/2001)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-03)

In the City of Fear (1982) - Ward S. Just (1935-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-03)

The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory (2002) - Derek Leebaert ( -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-03)

Bannerman's Ghosts (2003) - John R. Maxim (1937-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 30-Mar-03)

Warning Signs (2003) - Alan Caruba (10/09/1937-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Mar-03)

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (2002) - Bruce Feiler (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Mar-03)

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (1977) - Michael Walzer ( -)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 20-Mar-03)

Men at Arms (Volume One of the Sword of Honour Trilogy) (1952) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-03)

My Utmost for His Highest (1927) - Oswald Chambers (07/24/1874-1917)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-Mar-03)

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000) - Robert D. Putnam (1940-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 03-Mar-03)

The American Cause (1957) - Russell Kirk (10/19/1918 -4/29/1994)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Mar-03)

A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy (2003) - James MacDonald (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-03)

The Founding Fish (2002) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Feb-03)

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (1898) - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 18-Feb-03)

Why Orwell Matters (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 11-Feb-03)

The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf (2002) - Mark Frost (11/25/1953-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-03)

Feminist Fantasies (2003) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Feb-03)

A History of Britain, Volume II : The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) - Simon Schama (1945-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-03)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) - Edward Gibbon (04/27/1737 -1794)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-03)

PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE: (01/31/2003) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 31-Jan-03)

The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life (2000) - Bruce Wilkinson (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-03)

The Angles of Light: new & selected poems (2000) - Luci Shaw (1928-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-03)

Home Truths: A Novella (1999) - David Lodge (01/28/1935-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-Jan-03)

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2002) - Tony Horwitz (1958-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 22-Jan-03)

About a Boy (1998) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Jan-03)

The Death of Napoleon [La Mort de Napoleon] (1986) - Simon Leys (1935-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-03)

Einstein's Dreams (1993) - Alan P. Lightman (11/28/1948 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-03)

Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education (2001) - Jeffrey Peter Hart (1930 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-03)

The Emerging Democratic Majority (2002) - John B. Judis (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 06-Jan-03)

Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962) - Michael Oakeshott (12/11/1901 -12/19/1990)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-02)

The Faith and the Power : The Inspiring Story of the First Christians & How They Survived the Madness of Rome (2002) - James D. Snyder (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-02)

The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) - George Dangerfield (10/28/1904 -12/27/1986)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-02)

The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England (1992) - Eamon Duffy (1947 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-02)

Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (1994) - Jonathan Rauch (1960-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Dec-02)

The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) - Herbert Butterfield (10/07/1900 -7/20/1979)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Dec-02)

Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring Series) (2002) - Dinesh D'Souza (1961-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 16-Dec-02)

Narcissus Leaves the Pool : Familiar Essays (1999) - Joseph Epstein (01/09/1937 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Dec-02)

Baghdad Sketches (1933) - Freya Stark (05/09/1893-1993)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Dec-02)

The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism (1994) - Katie Roiphe (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 14-Dec-02)

The Person and the Common Good (1946) - Jacques Maritain (11/18/1882 -4/28/1973)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Dec-02)

Calculating God (2000) - Robert J. Sawyer (1960-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-02)

Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (2002) - Mary Anne Weaver (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 03-Dec-02)

The War in 2020 (1991) - Ralph Peters (1952-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Dec-02)

The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958) - Edmund S. Morgan (01/17/1916-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 03-Dec-02)

Carnegie (2002) - Peter Krass (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Nov-02)

It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us (1996) - Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 22-Nov-02)

Benjamin Franklin (2002) - Edmund S. Morgan (01/17/1916-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Nov-02)

The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (2002) - Mark Hertsgaard (1956-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-02)

Five Days in London, May 1940 (1999) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Nov-02)

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (1992) - Garry Wills (5/22/1934 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-02)

What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) - Peter Hansard (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Oct-02)

The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem (2002) - Frederick Glaysher (1954-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-02)

Fancies and Goodnights (1951) - John Collier (1901-1980)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-02)

A Yankee Century (2002) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-02)

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History (2001) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-02)

Defying Hitler: A Memoir [Geschichte eines Deutschen] (2000) - Sebastian Haffner (1907-1999)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-02)

The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It (2002) - John Miller (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 06-Oct-02)

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998) - Thomas M. Disch (1940-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 04-Oct-02)

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (1967) - Leonard C. Lewin (1916-1998)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 04-Oct-02)

I Am Legend (1954) - Richard Matheson (02/20/1926 -06/23/2013)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 04-Oct-02)

The Forever War (1943) - Joe Haldeman (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 19-Sep-02)

Towards a Conservative Environmentalism (2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 18-Sep-02)

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (2002) - Olivia Judson (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 17-Sep-02)

I Am Legend (1954) - John Buchan (08/26/1875 -02/11/1940)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-02)

Democracy: The Two Majorities (1963) - Willmoore Kendall (1909 -6/30/1967)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Sep-02)

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001) - David Edmonds (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Sep-02)

The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (2002) - Richard Zacks (1955-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-02)

Life of Pi: A Novel (2001) - Yann Martel (1963-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 28-Aug-02)

Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Aug-02)

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life (2002) - Carlo D'Este (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Aug-02)

The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria (2001) - Mark Honigsbaum (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-02)

Moving Mars (1993) - Greg Bear (1951-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-02)

The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (2001) - G. Bruce Knecht (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 22-Aug-02)

Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (2000) - Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-02)

Events are in the Saddle and They Ride the Neocons (2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 18-Aug-02)

Dominic (1972) - William Steig (1907-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Aug-02)

The Homeschooling Revolution (2000) - Isabel Lyman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 10-Aug-02)

The Fathers (1938) - Allen Tate (11/18/1899 -2/09/1979)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 04-Aug-02)

Lois & Clark : The New Adventures of Superman (2001) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 29-Jul-02)

White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Jul-02)

Fresh Lies (1994) - James Lileks (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jul-02)

They Shall Have Stars (aka : Year 2018!) [Part One of Cities in Flight] (1957) - James Blish (1921-1975)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 23-Jul-02)

A Cold Day in Paradise (1998) - Steve Hamilton (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 23-Jul-02)

The Count and the Confession (2002) - John Taylor (1955-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Jul-02)

The Flight of the Phoenix (1964) - Elleston Trevor (1920-1995)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Jul-02)

Flying Tigers over Cambodia: An American Pilot's Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift (2001) - Larry Partridge (1936-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Jul-02)

What the Anti-Federalists Were For (1981) - Herbert J. Storing (1928 -1977)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Jul-02)

Diaspora (1997) - Greg Egan (1961-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-02)

All Humor is Conservative (06/20/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 20-Jun-02)

The Lover (1984) - Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 16-Jun-02)

Who Owns History? : Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002) - Eric Foner (2/07/1943 -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-02)

The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors (2002) - Ian Frazier (1951-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-02)

Twelve Steps Away from the Times (6/11/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 11-Jun-02)

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001) - Walter Russell Mead ( -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 10-Jun-02)

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (1989) - Jon Scieszka (1954-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Jun-02)

The Book That Jack Wrote (1994) - Jon Scieszka (1954-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 09-Jun-02)

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992) - Jon Scieszka (1954-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Jun-02)

Outlander (1991) - Diana Gabaldon (1952-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 04-Jun-02)

The Heavenly World Series (2002) - Frank O'Rourke (1916-1989)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-May-02)

To Afghanistan and Back : A Graphic Travelogue (2002) - Ted Rall (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 27-May-02)

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2002) - Tamim Ansary (1948-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 26-May-02)

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories : Modern Tales for Our Life & Times (1994) - James Finn Garner (1939-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-May-02)

Paydirt: A Wyatt Novel (1992) - Garry Disher (1949-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-May-02)

The Beach (1997) - Alex Garland (5/26/1970 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-May-02)

George Shrinks (1985) - William Joyce (1957-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-May-02)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) - Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-May-02)

Stupid Like a CEO (05/10/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 10-May-02)

The Apple and the Arrow (1951) - Mary Buff (1890-1970) - Conrad Buff (1886-1975)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-May-02)

Ambling Into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002) - Frank Bruni (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-May-02)

Across the Red Line : Stories from the Surgical Life (2002) - Richard C. Karl (1945-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 05-May-02)

American Spectator's Enemies List (1996) - P.J. O'Rourke (11/14/1947 -2/15/2022)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 30-Apr-02)

Asterix the Legionary (1967) - Rene Goscinny (1926-1977)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-02)

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) - C. P. Snow (1905 -1980)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 26-Apr-02)

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of The Biotechnology Revolution (2002) - Francis Fukuyama (10/27/1952 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-02)

Shrek! (1990) - William Steig (1907-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-02)

The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle (2002) - Robert Anasi (1966-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Apr-02)

Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927 -04/04/2018)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Apr-02)

Becket or The Honor of God (1960) - Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Apr-02)

Strip Cuts (2000) - David Drayer (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-02)

The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2002) - H. W. Brands (08/07/1953 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-02)

Red Smith on Baseball (2000) - Red Smith (9/25/1905 -1/15.1982) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-02)

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002) - Atul Gawande (1965-) (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 26-Mar-02)

The Song of Bernadette (1941) - Franz Werfel (1890-1945)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-02)

Letter to a Man in the Fire : Does God Exist and Does He Care? (1999) - Reynolds Price (1933-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 10-Mar-02)

The Mouse That Roared (1955) - Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Mar-02)

Prisoner for God: Letters and Papers from Prison (1953) - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (02/04/1906 -04/09/1945)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Mar-02)

Cato: A Tragedy (1713) - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Mar-02)

Earth's Holocaust (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (7/04/1804 -5/19/1864)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Mar-02)

The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (2001) - Tammy Bruce (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-02)

PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (2000) - Sally Satel, M. D. (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-02)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-02)

Making Patriots (2001) - Walter Berns (5/03/1919 -1/10/2015)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Feb-02)

Anthony Blunt: His Lives (2001) - Miranda Carter (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 25-Feb-02)

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002) - Todd Gitlin (1/06/1943 -2/05/2022)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-02)

The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again (2002) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 19-Feb-02)

A Treasury of Victorian Murder, Volume 1 (1987) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Feb-02)

Ezra Pound (Literary Lives) (1981) - Peter Ackroyd (1949-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 17-Feb-02)

Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey (1981) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Feb-02)

The American Language (1936) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880 -1/29/1956)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Feb-02)

The Vintage Mencken (1955) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880 -1/29/1956)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Feb-02)

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (2002) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 11-Feb-02)

Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World (2001) - Robert P. Kraynak (1949-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Feb-02)

What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002) - Bernard Lewis (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Feb-02)

My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy (2001) - Wen Ho Lee (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 06-Feb-02)

Out of America : A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997) - Keith B. Richburg (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 05-Feb-02)

The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot (1953) - Russell Kirk (10/19/1918 -4/29/1994)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 05-Feb-02)

My Declaration of Independence (2001) - James M. Jeffords (1934-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-02)

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse (1991) - Mary Ann Glendon ( -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-02)

The Death of Satan : How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil (1995) - Andrew Delbanco ( -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-02)

The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8) () - Lemony Snicket (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jan-02)

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990) - Laurence H. Tribe (10/10/1941 -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 22-Jan-02)

The Birthmark (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (7/04/1804 -5/19/1864)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Jan-02)

Virtually Normal : An Argument About Homosexuality (1995) - Andrew Sullivan (8/10/1963 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 17-Jan-02)

The Adversary : A True Story of Monstrous Deception [L'Adversaire] (2000) - Emmanuel Carrere (1957-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-02)

O Holy Cow! : The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto (1993) - Phil Rizzuto (9/25/1917 -8/13/2007)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-02)

A Life Without Consequences (2001) - Stephen Elliott (1971-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-02)

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969) - William Steig (1907-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Jan-02)

A Beautiful Mind : A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 (1998) - Sylvia Nasar (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 10-Jan-02)

Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998) - Richard Rorty (10/04/1931 -6/08/2007)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 08-Jan-02)

The Revolt of the Masses (1930) - Jose Ortega y Gasset (5/09/1883 -10/18/1955)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Jan-02)

The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1934-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 04-Jan-02)

Casting the Runes (1911) - M. R. James (1862-1936)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-02)

Canaan (1996) - Geoffrey Hill (1932 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-02)

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism (1999) - Simon Reeve (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-02)

The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-02)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Dec-01)

Ravelstein (2000) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915 -04/05/2005)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 24-Dec-01)

A Choice Not an Echo (1964) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-01)

The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999) - Victor Davis Hanson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Dec-01)

The Prince (1513) - Niccolo Machiavelli (5/03/1469 -6/21/1527)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-01)

Churchill: A Biography (2001) - Roy Jenkins (11/11/1920-2003)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 14-Dec-01)

Libertarianism vs. Conservatism () - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 14-Dec-01)

Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (2001) - Michael Watkins (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-01)

Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream (1997) - Jim Sleeper (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 08-Dec-01)

Baghdad Without a Map : And Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991) - Tony Horwitz (1958-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-01)

No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (2000) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-01)

All the Trouble in the World : The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty (1995) - P.J. O'Rourke (11/14/1947 -2/15/2022)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-01)

Fatal Vision (1983) - Joe McGinniss (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-01)

Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (1996) - Mary Lefkowitz (04/30/1935 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-01)

The Name of the Rose [Il nome della rosa] (1980) - Umberto Eco (1932-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 02-Dec-01)

The Blooding of the Guns : A novel of the Battle of Jutland [The Everard Naval Series, No. 1] (1976) - Alexander Fullerton (1924-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 02-Dec-01)

Telling the Truth : Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense-And What We Can Do About It (1995) - Lynne V. Cheney (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Nov-01)

Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World (1995) - Benjamin R. Barber (08/02/1939-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 28-Nov-01)

On Great White Wings : The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight (2001) - Fred E. C. Culick (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 25-Nov-01)

The Feast of the Goat (2000) - Mario Vargas Llosa (3/28/1936 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 20-Nov-01)

Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2001) - Elizabeth A. Fenn (1959-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 19-Nov-01)

The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (1996) - Giles Milton (1/15/1966 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Nov-01)

Memoir from Antproof Case (1995) - Mark Helprin (06/28/1947 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 13-Nov-01)

The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-01)

As the Future Catches You : How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Your Work, Your Investments, Your World (2001) - Juan Enriquez (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 08-Nov-01)

The Story of John Henry () - Rabbit Ears Series (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Nov-01)

The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998) - Thomas Cahill (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 06-Nov-01)

The Good German (2001) - Joseph Kanon (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 04-Nov-01)

Storied Stadiums : Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks (2001) - Curt Smith (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 03-Nov-01)

"He and She" and Other Stories 1880-82 : The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (Vol 1) (2000) - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 03-Nov-01)

Godiva and the Golden Dragon (2001) - Steven James (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Oct-01)

The Assault [El Asalto] (1990) - Reinaldo Arenas (7/16/1943 -12/07/1990)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 29-Oct-01)

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1604) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Oct-01)

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) - Samuel P. Huntington (04/18/1927 -12/24/2008)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Oct-01)

My Love Affair With America : The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative (2000) - Norman Podhoretz (1/16/1930 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-01)

Waiting (1999) - Ha Jin (1956-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-01)

Postmodern Pooh (2001) - Frederick Crews (1933 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-01)

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Judith S. Wallerstein (-) - Julia M. Lewis (-) - Sandra Blakeslee (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 17-Oct-01)

For Love of the Game (1991) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928 -5/05/1988)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 14-Oct-01)

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) - Robert C. O'Brien (1918-1973)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-01)

Hadji Murad (1911) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828 -11/20/1910)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-01)

The Corrections (2001) - Jonathan Franzen (8/17/1959 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 09-Oct-01)

Harriet the Spy (1964) - Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 03-Oct-01)

Moth Smoke (2000) - Mohsin Hamid (7/23/1971 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Oct-01)

Holes (1997) - Louis Sachar (1954-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-01)

Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War (1999) - Mark Bowden (1951-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-01)

Wild Thorns (Al-Subar) (1976) - Sahar Khalifeh (1941-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 30-Sep-01)

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) - Ivan Turgenev (11/09/1818 -9/03/1883)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 26-Sep-01)

Islam: A Short History (2000) - Karen Armstrong (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 26-Sep-01)

Whatever [L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte] (1994) - Michel Houellebecq (2/26/1956 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-01)

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1987) - Bette Bao Lord (1938-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 24-Sep-01)

The Month of the Leopard (2001) - James Harland (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 24-Sep-01)

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 22-Sep-01)

Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-Sep-01)

Where the Stress Falls (2001) - Susan Sontag (1/16/1933 -12/28/2004)  (Grade:T (for toilet paper)) (Reviewed: 20-Sep-01)

Carter Beats the Devil (2001) - Glen David Gold (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 18-Sep-01)

The Easter Parade (1976) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Sep-01)

Quitting the Nairobi Trio (2000) - Jim Knipfel (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-01)

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) - Albert Jay Nock (10/13/1870 -8/19/1945) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-01)

Charlotte's Web (1952) - E. B. White (7/11/1899 -10/01/1985) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Sep-01)

Treasure Island (1881) - Robert Louis Stevenson (11/13/1850 -12/03/1894)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Sep-01)

The Last Battle : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War (2001) - Ralph Wetterhahn (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Sep-01)

Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (2/07/1885 -1/10/1951)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Sep-01)

Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1992) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -5/19/2023)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 02-Sep-01)

Personal History (1997) - Katharine Graham (1917-2001)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-01)

Corelli's Mandolin (1994) - Louis De Bernieres (1954 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-01)

The Lost Weekend (1944) - Charles Jackson (1902-1968)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-01)

Vital Signs : Music, Movies and Other Manias (1998) - Ian Penman (1959-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-01)

The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass : A Flyrodder's Odyssey at Montauk Point (2001) - Peter Kaminsky (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-01)

The Innocent (1990) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-01)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-01)

The Master Puppeteer (1975) - Katherine Paterson (1932-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Aug-01)

A Cold Case (2001) - Philip Gourevitch (1961-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Aug-01)

Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History (2000) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 27-Aug-01)

The Devil's Dictionary [The Cynic's Word Book] (1911) - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Aug-01)

The Bridge at No Gun Ri : A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War (2001) - Charles J. Hanley (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 26-Aug-01)

Los Alamos : A Novel (1997) - Joseph Kanon (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 22-Aug-01)

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary : The First Dictionary for the Internet Age (2001) - Anne Soukhanov (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-01)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) - Horace McCoy (1897-1955)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-01)

The Secret Garden (1911) - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-01)

The Impact of the Gene : From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies (2000) - Colin Tudge (-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-01)

Night of the Hunter (1953) - Davis Grubb (1919-1980)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Aug-01)

Surprised by Joy : The Shape of My Early Life (1955) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Aug-01)

Amazing Grace : A Vocabulary of Faith (1998) - Kathleen Norris (1947-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Aug-01)

As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (2000) - John Colapinto (1958-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Aug-01)

Bridge to Terabithia (1977) - Katherine Paterson (1932-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Aug-01)

Serpico (1973) - Peter Maas (6/27/1929 -8/23/21/2001)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Aug-01)

The Absence of Nectar (2001) - Kathy Hepinstall (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Aug-01)

The Giver (1993) - Lois Lowry (3/20/1937 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-01)

Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000) - Laurie Garrett (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 07-Aug-01)

A Pale View of Hills (1982) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 07-Aug-01)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume I) (1973) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-01)

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis : A Novella (1996) - Will Self (9/26/1961 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-01)

Empires of Sand (1999) - David Ball (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Jul-01)

Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science (2001) - Colin Beavan (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Jul-01)

In the Fall (2000) - Jeffrey Lent (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 30-Jul-01)

Aleck Maury, Sportsman (1934) - Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895-1981)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Jul-01)

Gold: Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter (1925) - Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 22-Jul-01)

The Rage of Hercules (2001) - Andre Comte-Sponville (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-01)

Redwall (1986) - Brian Jacques (1939-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-01)

The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) (1959) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 -1968)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-01)

The Restraint of Beasts (1998) - Magnus Mills (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 16-Jul-01)

Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001) - Stefan Fatsis (4/01/1963 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 16-Jul-01)

It's Not About the Bike : My Journey Back to Life (2000) - Lance Armstrong (1971-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-01)

Doctor Janeway's Plague (2000) - John Farrell (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-01)

Night Train (1997) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -5/19/2023)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-01)

Memoir on Pauperism (1835) - Alexis De Tocqueville (7/29/1805 -4/16/1859)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-01)

The Dark Wind (1982) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-01)

My Dream of You (2001) - Nuala O'Faolain (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-01)

Strangers on a Train (1950) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-01)

The Notebook (1996) - Nicholas Sparks (1965-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-01)

Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988) - Timothy Ferris (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-01)

Omon Ra (1992) - Victor Pelevin (1962-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-01)

My Goodness : A Cynic's Shortlived Search for Sainthood (2000) - Joe Queenan (1950-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jul-01)

O'Fear : A Cliff Hardy Novel (1990) - Peter Corris (1942-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Jul-01)

Napalm & Silly Putty (2001) - George Carlin (1937-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-01)

At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election (2001) - Bill Sammon (1959 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-01)

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926 (Second Edition, 1965)) - H. W. Fowler (1858-1933)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-01)

Thatcher For Beginners (1997) - Peter Pugh (-) - Carl Flint (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-01)

Panama (1995) - Eric Zencey (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-01)

A Fine Balance (1996) - Rohinton Mistry (1952-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Jun-01)

Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) - Barbara Ehrenreich (8/26/1941 -9/01/2022)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-01)

Hitler Stopped by Franco (2001) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927 -04/04/2018)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Jun-01)

Polo Anyone ? : A Nick Polo Mystery (1988) - Jerry Kennealy (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-01)

The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans (1982) - William Greider (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-01)

Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (2001) - Michael D'Antonio (-) - Andrew Spielman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Jun-01)

The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - John Lanchester (1962-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 17-Jun-01)

When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon (2000) - Frances Park (1955-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 17-Jun-01)

To Swim Across The World : A Novel (2001) - Frances Park (1955-) - Ginger Park (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Jun-01)

The Muse Asylum (2001) - David Czuchlewski (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-01)

The Denial of Death (1973) - Ernest Becker (9/27/1924 -3/06/1974)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-01)

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China () - Ch'Eng-En Wu (c. 1500-1582)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 12-Jun-01)

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) - Rick Perlstein (1969 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Jun-01)

The Aerodrome : A Love Story (1941) - Rex [Ernest] Warner (1905-1986)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Jun-01)

Ride With the Devil [aka : Woe to Live On] (1987) - Daniel Woodrell (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 08-Jun-01)

The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America (2001) - Louis Menand ( -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 04-Jun-01)

The 47 Ronin Story (1970) - John Allyn (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 03-Jun-01)

Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (2001) - Tyler Bridges (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 02-Jun-01)

Centesimus Annus (1991) - Pope John Paul II Pope (1920-4/2/2005)  (Grade:) (Reviewed: 31-May-01)

Winnetou (1893) - Karl May (2/25/1842 -3/30/1912)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-May-01)

The Lexus and the Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization (1999) - Thomas L. Friedman (1953-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-May-01)

The Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 30-May-01)

Dreaming Jungles [Les Jungles Pensives] (1985) - Michel Rio (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 29-May-01)

Empire of the Sun (1984) - J. G. Ballard (11/15/1930 -4/19/2009) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-May-01)

The End of History and the Last Man (1992) - Francis Fukuyama (10/27/1952 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-May-01)

Paul: The Mind of the Apostle (1997) - A. N. Wilson (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 23-May-01)

The Mummy Congress : Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (2001) - Heather Pringle (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-May-01)

The Pity of War : Explaining World War I (1998) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-May-01)

A Dog's Ransom (1972) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 22-May-01)

Toward Rational Exuberance : The Evolution of Modern Stock Market (2001) - B. Mark Smith (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-May-01)

Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (1999) - Mick Foley (1965-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 21-May-01)

Wild Nights : Nature Returns to the City (2001) - Anne Matthews (1957-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 21-May-01)

Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) - Ron Hansen (1947-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-May-01)

Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People (2000) - Helen Zia (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 17-May-01)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : Based on a True Story (2000) - Dave Eggers (03/12/1970 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 17-May-01)

Balsamic Dreams : A Short But Self-important History of the Baby Boomer Generation (2001) - Joe Queenan (1950-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 13-May-01)

Wet Work (1990) - Christopher Buckley (1952-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-May-01)

The Geometry of Love : Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (2001) - Margaret Visser (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-May-01)

Shopgirl: A Novella (2000) - Steve Martin (1945-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-May-01)

Renewing American Compassion (1996) - Marvin Olasky (6/12/1950 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 11-May-01)

The Lilies of the Field (1962) - William Edmund Barrett (1900-1986)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-May-01)

Those Damn Yankees : The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise (1999) - Dean Chadwin (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 10-May-01)

The Devil's Cure (2000) - Kenneth Oppel (1967-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 09-May-01)

The Inferno (1314) - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-May-01)

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996) - Roger Shattuck (08/20/1923-12/08/2005)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-May-01)

Salvador (1983) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 07-May-01)

Mrs. Bridge (1959) - Evan S. Connell (8/17/1924 -1/10/2013)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-May-01)

The Man in the High Castle (1962) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-May-01)

The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) - Malcolm Gladwell (09/03/1963-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 06-May-01)

Not in Front of the Children : Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth (2001) - Marjorie Heins (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 02-May-01)

How Race Is Lived in America : Pulling Together, Pulling Apart (2001) - Correspondents of The New York Times (-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 02-May-01)

King Solomon's Mines (1885) - H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-May-01)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) - Steven Millhauser (8/03/1943 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-May-01)

Blue Chipper : A Morgan Hunt Novel (1992) - Geoffrey Norman (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Apr-01)

The Shawl (1989) - Cynthia Ozick (1928-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-01)

Black Dahlia (1987) - James Ellroy (3/04/1948 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-01)

The Seven Sins of Memory : How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (2001) - Daniel L. Schacter (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-01)

Quarantine (1997) - Jim Crace (03/01/1946-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 22-Apr-01)

Day of Infamy (1957) - Walter Lord (1917-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-01)

The World Turned Right Side Up : A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America (1996) - Godfrey Hodgson (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-01)

Seasons In Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and 'the Worst Baseball Teams in History' - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers (1996) - Mike Shropshire (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 18-Apr-01)

The Lost Daughter of Happiness : A Novel (2001) - Geling Yan (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 18-Apr-01)

Baptism for the Dead (1988) - Robert R. Irvine (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Apr-01)

How the Russians Invented Baseball : And Other Essays of Enlightenment (1989) - John Leo (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-01)

Little Green Men (1999) - Christopher Buckley (1952-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 11-Apr-01)

Completing the Revolution : A Vision for Victory in 2000 (2000) - Robert D. Novak (1931-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 11-Apr-01)

Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819 -9/28/1891)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Apr-01)

Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam (2001) - Jack Todd (1946-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 08-Apr-01)

The Other Side of Eden : Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World (2001) - Hugh Brody (1943-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 06-Apr-01)

Parliament of Whores : A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) - P.J. O'Rourke (11/14/1947 -2/15/2022)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Apr-01)

The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) - David McCullough (7/07/1933 -8/07/2022)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 05-Apr-01)

Wry Martinis (1997) - Christopher Buckley (1952-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 03-Apr-01)

Two-Part Invention : The Story of a Marriage (1988) - Madeleine L'Engle (11/29/1918 -09/06/2007)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 02-Apr-01)

Dictatorships and Double Standards : Rationalism and Reason in Politics (1982) - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (11/19/1926 -12/07/2006)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-01)

Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (1998) - Stephen L. Carter (1954-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-01)

Under the Net (1954) - Iris Murdoch (7/15/1919 -2/08/1999)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-01)

A Deadly Exchange (2001) - Sheryl Jane Stafford (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-01)

Once More Around the Park : A Baseball Reader (1991) - Roger Angell (9/19/1920 -5/20/2022) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-01)

Carry On, Jeeves (1925) - P. G. Wodehouse (10/15/1881 -2/14/1975)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 29-Mar-01)

Play It As It Lays: A Novel (1970) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Mar-01)

Surviving Galeras (2001) - Stanley Williams (1952-) - Fen Montaigne (1952-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 28-Mar-01)

One of Us : Richard Nixon and the American Dream (1991) - Tom Wicker (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 26-Mar-01)

The Natural (1952) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914 -03/18/1986)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Mar-01)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-01)

A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) - Lewis Sorley (1934-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Mar-01)

The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-01)

The Friendly Persuasion (1945) - Jessamyn West (1902-1984)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-01)

Fools' Names, Fools' Faces (1996) - Andrew Ferguson (6/28/1956 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-01)

The Fire of Invention : Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (1997) - Michael Novak (9/09/1933 -02/17/2017)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 17-Mar-01)

The Victim of Prejudice (1799) - Mary Hays (1759-1843)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 14-Mar-01)

If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) - Chester Himes (1909 -1984)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Mar-01)

The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It (1966) - Lawrence S. Ritter (1922-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Mar-01)

Double Indemnity (1935) - James M Cain (7/1/1892 -10/27/77)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Mar-01)

Illuminated Prayers (1997) - Marianne Williamson (1952-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-01)

Pygmalion (1912) - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-01)

High Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) - Ann H. Coulter (12/08/1961-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-Mar-01)

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1972) - Marilyn Durham (1930-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Mar-01)

The Virtue of Selfishness : A New Concept of Egoism (1964) - Ayn Rand (02/02/1905 -03/06/1982)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-01)

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997) - Alain de Botton (1969-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-01)

The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) - Janet Malcolm (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-01)

Body Count: Moral Poverty...and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drug (1996) - William J. Bennett (1943-) - John DiIulio Jr. (-) - John P. Walters (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-01)

Race Matters (1993) - Cornel West (06/02/1953 -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 01-Mar-01)

Sounder (1969) - William H. Armstrong (1914-1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-01)

Six Degrees of Separation (1990) - John Guare (02/05/1938-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-01)

Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000) - Bob Woodward (1943-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-01)

The Death of Outrage : Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) - William J. Bennett (1943-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 25-Feb-01)

Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (2001) - Ronald Segal (7/14/1932 -2/23/2008)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-01)

Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) - William Wells Brown (1814-1884)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-01)

Descent into Hell (1937) - Charles Williams (1886 -1945)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-01)

Swann's Way (1913) - Marcel Proust (07/10/1871 -11/18/1922)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-01)

The Roots of Heaven (1956) - Romain Gary (05/08/1914 -12/02/1980)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-01)

Ronald Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (1997) - Dinesh D'Souza (1961-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 18-Feb-01)

Prime Time Blues : African Americans on Network Television (2001) - Donald Bogle (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 17-Feb-01)

The Caveman's Valentine (1994) - George Dawes Green (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Feb-01)

Ghosts on the Roof : Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers 1931-1959 (1989) - Whittaker Chambers (4/01/1901 -7/09/1961)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Feb-01)

The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838 -1918)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-01)

Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (4/01/1901 -7/09/1961)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-01)

In the Heat of the Night (1965) - John Ball (1911-1988)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-01)

The Quest for Cosmic Justice (1999) - Thomas Sowell (6/30/1930 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-01)

The Sand Pebbles (1962) - Richard McKenna (1913-1964)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-01)

A Christmas Dozen (from the Christmas Story Pastor) (2000) - Steve Burt (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-01)

The Death of a Nobody (1911) - Jules Romains (1885-1972)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Feb-01)

The Heat's On (aka : Come Back Charleston Blue) (1961) - Chester Himes (1909 -1984)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Feb-01)

Dom Casmurro (1899) - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 -1908)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 04-Feb-01)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Jan-01)

A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (12/17/1937 -3/26/1969)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-01)

How to Hack a Party Line: the Democrats and Silicon Valley (2001) - Sara Miles (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 29-Jan-01)

Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal (1999) - Meihong Xu (1963-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-01)

Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1997) - David Horowitz (1939 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-01)

Creating Equal : My Fight Against Race Preferences (2000) - Ward Connerly (1939-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-01)

Emma (1816) - Jane Austen (12/16/1775 -7/18/1817) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jan-01)

Alexander Hamilton, American (1999) - Richard Brookhiser (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jan-01)

Taking Charge : The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Jan-01)

Cool Hand Luke (1965) - Donn Pearce (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-01)

Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) - Andrei Makine (1957-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-01)

The Music of Chance (1990) - Paul Auster (2/03/1947 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-01)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859 -7/07/1930)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-01)

The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) - John Bunyan (1628-1688)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-01)

Thurber on Crime (1991) - James Thurber (1894-1961)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Jan-01)

Rules of Civility : The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace () - George Washington (1732-1799)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Jan-01)

Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) - Eric Schlosser (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 10-Jan-01)

The Remains of the Day (1988) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Jan-01)

Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America (2001) - Lynne Luciano (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 09-Jan-01)

The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare (1908) - G. K. Chesterton (05/29/1874 -06/14/1936)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-01)

The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: The 'Good Parts' Version, Abridged (1973) - William Goldman (8/12/1931 -11/16/2018)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-01)

The Virginian : A Horseman Of The Plains (1902) - Owen Wister (1860-1938)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-01)

The Avengers: Too Many Targets (1990) - John Peel (1954-) - David Rogers (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-01)

Fighting Terrorism : How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists (1995) - Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-01)

The Long Walk : The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (1956) - Slavomir Rawicz (09/01/1915-04/05/2004)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-01)

The Sentinel (1951) - Arthur C. Clarke (1917-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-00)

Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-00)

The Alienist (1994) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-00)

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us (1996) - James Carroll (1943-)  (Grade:D-) (Reviewed: 24-Dec-00)

Privileged Information (1984) - Tom Alibrandi (-) - Frank H. Armani (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-00)

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) - Don Winslow (1953-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-00)

Bulow Hammock : Mind in a Forest (1988) - David Rains Wallace (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-00)

Constantine's Sword :The Church and the Jews: A History (2000) - James Carroll (1943-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-00)

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (2000) - Jennifer Niven (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-00)

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999) - Nathan Englander (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-00)

Farewell to the King (1969) - Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-00)

The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914 -03/18/1986)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-00)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) - Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-00)

Iced (2000) - Jenny Siler (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-00)

Maximum Bob (1991) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 11-Dec-00)

Kolymsky Heights (1994) - Lionel Davidson (03/31/1922 -10/21/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Dec-00)

The Spire (1964) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 09-Dec-00)

Democracy: An American Novel (1880) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838 -1918)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 07-Dec-00)

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990) - Shelby Steele (1946 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-00)

Coming Up for Air (1939) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-00)

The Third Reich : A New History (2000) - Michael Burleigh (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Dec-00)

The Prison of Memory (1999) - Peter Rodgers (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Dec-00)

Paco's Story (1986) - Larry Heinemann (1944-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 30-Nov-00)

Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000) - Giles Milton (1/15/1966 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Nov-00)

St. Petersburg (1913) - Andrey Bely (1880-1934)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 30-Nov-00)

A Nation of Strangers (1972) - Vance Packard (1914-1996)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Nov-00)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - Gabriel García Márquez (1928-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-00)

How Late It Was, How Late (1994) - James Kelman (1946-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-00)

Trout Fishing in America (1967) - Richard Brautigan (1/30/1935 -9/16/1984)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 26-Nov-00)

House of Sand and Fog (1999) - Andre Dubus III (9/11/1959 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-00)

The Years With Laura Diaz (1999) - Carlos Fuentes (1928-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 20-Nov-00)

Lies of Silence (1990) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Nov-00)

The Last Hurrah (1956) - Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-00)

The Pyramid (1992) - Ismail Kadare (1936-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-00)

The Stone Raft (1986) - Jose Saramago (1922-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 10-Nov-00)

Hooking Up (2000) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Nov-00)

No Longer at Ease (1960) - Chinua Achebe (11/16/1930 -3/21/2013)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Nov-00)

Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) - Robert Conquest (07/15/1917 -08/03/2015)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Nov-00)

Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (2/25/1895 -8/31/1977)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 05-Nov-00)

Author Unknown : On the Trail of Anonymous (2000) - Donald W. Foster (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Nov-00)

Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-00)

Almost History : Close Calls, Plan B's, and Twists of Fate in America's Past (2000) - Roger Bruns (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Oct-00)

Food's Frontier : The Next Green Revolution (2000) - Richard Manning (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Oct-00)

The White Album (1979) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Oct-00)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Oct-00)

Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics (1996) - Anonymous (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 29-Oct-00)

The Best American Sports Writing : 2000 (2000) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-00)

The Catastrophist (1997) - Ronan Bennett (1956-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-00)

Woman in the Dark : A Novel of Dangerous Romance (1933) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 27-Oct-00)

Power Golf (1948) - Ben Hogan (1912 -1997)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Oct-00)

The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 23-Oct-00)

One Drop of Blood : The American Misadventure of Race (2000) - Scott L. Malcomson (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 23-Oct-00)

Ficciones (1944) - Jorge Luis Borges (8/24/1899 -6/14/1986)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 22-Oct-00)

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1951) - Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 22-Oct-00)

The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) - Eric Hoffer (7/15/1902 -5/21/1983)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Oct-00)

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: and Other Observations (1996) - Al Franken (1951-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 19-Oct-00)

This Gun for Hire [A Gun for Sale] (1936) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-00)

Move Closer : An Intimate Philosophy of Art (2000) - John Armstrong (1966-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-00)

What it Takes : The Way to the White House (1992) - Richard Ben Cramer (06/12/1950 -01/07/2013) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Oct-00)

The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912) - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Oct-00)

Fontamara (1933) - Ignazio Silone (5/01/1900 -8/22/1978)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-00)

The Last River : The Tragic Race for Shangri-La (2000) - Todd Balf (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 14-Oct-00)

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Oct-00)

The Unborn : The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei 1622-1693 (2000) - Norman Waddell (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-00)

Citadel on the Mountain : A Memoir of Father and Son (2000) - Richard Wertime (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 09-Oct-00)

Master and Commander (1969) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Oct-00)

Booked to Die (1992) - John Dunning (-) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Oct-00)

Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories (1992) - Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Oct-00)

Red Sky at Morning (1968) - Richard Bradford (1932-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Oct-00)

The Rapture of Canaan (1995) - Sheri Reynolds (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-00)

Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) - David Brooks (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-00)

An Uncertain Currency (1999) - Clyde Lynwood Sawyer, Jr (-) - Frances Witlin (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 30-Sep-00)

Archangel (1998) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Sep-00)

Shakespeare's Language (2000) - Frank Kermode (11/29/1919 -08/17/2010)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Sep-00)

The African Queen (1935) - C.S. Forester (8/27/1899 -4/02/1966)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Sep-00)

Enigma (1995) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-00)

Steps (1968) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-00)

Being There (1970) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 23-Sep-00)

Death of a Salesman (1949) - Arthur Miller (10/17/1915 -02/10/2015)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 23-Sep-00)

Rising Sun (1992) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 20-Sep-00)

The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje (9/12/1943 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 20-Sep-00)

The Scalpel and the Butterfly : The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection (2000) - Deborah Rudacille (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 17-Sep-00)

Fatherland (1992) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Sep-00)

The Tragedy of King Lear (1605) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 15-Sep-00)

I Know This Much is True (1998) - Wally Lamb (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 13-Sep-00)

The Painted Bird (1965) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-Sep-00)

Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Sep-00)

Dr. No (1958) - Ian Fleming (05/28/1908 -8/12/1964)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 11-Sep-00)

L.A. Requiem (1999) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-00)

The Hours (1998) - Michael Cunningham (1952-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-00)

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) - Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 08-Sep-00)

The Stars My Destination (1956) - Alfred Bester (1913-1987)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Sep-00)

A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour (1995) - John Feinstein (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-Sep-00)

Red Harvest (1929) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Sep-00)

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1966) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Sep-00)

A Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 02-Sep-00)

The Sculptress (1993) - Minette Walters (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-00)

Truman (1992) - David McCullough (7/07/1933 -8/07/2022)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-00)

True Grit (1968) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-00)

Offshore (1979) - Penelope Fitzgerald (12/17/1916-2000)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-00)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) - Anita Loos (1893-1981)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-00)

Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) - J. M. Coetzee (2/09/1940 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 27-Aug-00)

The Peopling of British North America : An Introduction (1986) - Bernard Bailyn (09/09/1922 -08/07/2020)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 26-Aug-00)

The Return of the Soldier (1918) - Rebecca West (1892-1983)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-00)

The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999) - Wole Soyinka (07/13/1934 -)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 22-Aug-00)

Poetry Under Oath: From The Testimony Of William Jefferson Clinton And Monica S. Lewinsky (1998) - Tom Simon (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-00)

Spartacus (1951) - Howard Fast (11/11/1914-03/12/2003)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-00)

Hart's War (199) - John Katzenbach (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-00)

The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994) - Bob Woodward (1943-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-00)

First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton (1995) - David Maraniss (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 16-Aug-00)

An Obsession with Anne Frank : Meyer Levin and the Diary (1997) - Lawrence Graver (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Aug-00)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) - John Le Carré (10/19/1931 -12/12/2020 )  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Aug-00)

The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (6/12/1929 -February 1945)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Aug-00)

Drawing Life : Surviving the Unabomber (1997) - David Gelernter (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Aug-00)

The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994) - Jonathan Weiner (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 09-Aug-00)

All Too Human : A Political Education (1999) - George Stephanopoulos (1961-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-00)

Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 07-Aug-00)

The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000) - Stephanie Gutmann (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Aug-00)

The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Aug-00)

How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Aug-00)

A Grief Observed (1961) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Jul-00)

A Rum Affair : A True Story of Botanical Fraud (1999) - Karl Sabbagh (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 29-Jul-00)

Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe (11/16/1930 -3/21/2013) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Jul-00)

A Collection of Essays (1954) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Jul-00)

American Nomad: Pop Visions, Restless Politics, and Apocalyptic Memories at the End of the Millennium (1997) - Steve Erickson (1950-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Jul-00)

The Myth of Sisyphus (1955) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 22-Jul-00)

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) - Tim LaHaye (-) - Jerry B. Jenkins (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-00)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir Of Life In Death (1997) - Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Jul-00)

Staying On (1977) - Paul Scott (1920-1978)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 19-Jul-00)

Young Torless (1906) - Robert Musil (11/06/1880 -4/15/1942)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Jul-00)

Black and Blue (1998) - Anna Quindlen (1952-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-00)

The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok (1929-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-00)

The Communist Manifesto (1848) - Karl Marx (1818-1883) - Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-00)

The Unmaking of a Mayor (1966) - William F. Buckley, Jr. (11/24/1925 -2/27/2008) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Jul-00)

The Violent Bear It Away (1960) - Flannery O'Connor (03/25/1925 -08/03/1964) (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 13-Jul-00)

The Road to Serfdom (1944) - Friedrich Hayek (5/08/1899 -3/23/1992)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Jul-00)

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000) - Frances Fitzgerald (-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-00)

Annals of the Former World (1998) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-00)

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994) - Anne Lamott (4/10/1954 -)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-00)

The Road to Wellville (1993) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-00)

Advise and Consent (1959) - Allen Drury (-1998)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Jul-00)

Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994) - Christina Hoff Sommers (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 05-Jul-00)

The Culture We Deserve (1989) - Jacques Barzun (11/30/1907 -10/25/2012)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Jul-00)

The Elements of Style (1959) - William Strunk Jr. (1869-1946)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 04-Jul-00)

The Caine Mutiny (1951) - Herman Wouk (1915-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 03-Jul-00)

Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War (2000) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Jul-00)

TulipoMania: The Story Of The World's Most Coveted Flower & The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (2000) - Mike Dash (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-00)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (1841) - Charles MacKay (1814-1889)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-00)

Hardy Boys Mystery Series: The Crisscross Shadow (1953) - Franklin W. Dixon ( -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-00)

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (1996) - Frank McCourt (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-00)

Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water (2000) - Philip Ball ( -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-00)

A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) - Stephen W. Hawking (1/08/1942 -03/14/2018)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-00)

The Whipping Boy (1986) - Sid Fleischman (1920-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-00)

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995) - Li-Young Lee (1957-)  (Grade:D-) (Reviewed: 27-Jun-00)

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) - Richard Hofstadter (08/16/1916 -10/24/1970)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-00)

The Tortilla Curtain (1995) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 23-Jun-00)

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) - Studs Terkel (5/16/1912 -10/31/2008)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-00)

Rocket Boys: A Memoir (1998) - Homer H. Hickam, Jr. (1943-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-00)

Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (10/08/1920 -2/11/1986)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-00)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) - Alan Sillitoe (1928-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-00)

Les Miserables (1862) - Victor Hugo (2/26/1802 -5/22/1885)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Jun-00)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) - Richard Bach (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 18-Jun-00)

Thousand Cranes (1949) - Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-00)

Becoming Madame Mao (2000) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-00)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - Nelson Algren (3/28/1909 -5/09/1981)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 12-Jun-00)

The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed (1986) - David Stockman (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 07-Jun-00)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898 -9/25/1970)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 07-Jun-00)

The Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King] (1948) - J.R.R. Tolkien (01/03/1892 -09/02/1973)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Jun-00)

Death in Venice (1913) - Thomas Mann (6/06/1875 -8/12/1955)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-00)

The Son of Laughter (1993) - Frederick Buechner (07/11/1926 -08/15/22)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Jun-00)

The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work (1997) - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 04-Jun-00)

The Firm (1991) - John Grisham (02/08/1955-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 04-Jun-00)

The Wood Beyond the World (1895) - William Morris (1834-1896)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 04-Jun-00)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story (1994) - John Berendt (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 02-Jun-00)

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+) (Reviewed: 31-May-00)

Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (11/04/1950 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-May-00)

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments or the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (1885) - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-May-00)

The Moon and Sixpence (1919) - W. Somerset Maugham (1/25/1874 -12/16/1965)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 29-May-00)

Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-May-00)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Friedrich Nietzsche (10/15/1844 -8/25/1900)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 29-May-00)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) - Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 29-May-00)

The Way Through the Woods: An Inspector Morse Mystery (1992) - Colin Dexter (1930-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-May-00)

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 23-May-00)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-May-00)

Possession: A Romance (1990) - A.S. [Antonia Susan] Byatt (8/24/1936 -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 22-May-00)

Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World (1996) - David Denby (-) (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 21-May-00)

Gift from the Sea (1955) - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-May-00)

The Abolition of Man: Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools (1943) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-May-00)

The Population Bomb (1968) - Paul R. Ehrlich (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 17-May-00)

Growing Up (1982) - Russell Baker (1925-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-May-00)

The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-May-00)

Grendel (1971) - John Gardner (1933 -1982)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 11-May-00)

The Jungle Books (1894) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-May-00)

The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 10-May-00)

Quo Vadis? (1896) - Henryk Sienkiewicz (05/05/1846 -11/15/1916)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 10-May-00)

A Time of War (1990) - Michael Peterson (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 09-May-00)

The Tragedy of Richard III (1593) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-May-00)

Reading The Water (1997) - Charles Harper Webb (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-May-00)

The Demolished Man (1953) - Alfred Bester (1913-1987)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-May-00)

Poem of the Cid (1140) - Anonymous (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-May-00)

Out of Africa (1937) - Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 04-May-00)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-May-00)

What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990) - Peggy Noonan (1950-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-May-00)

The Giving Tree (1964) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 04-May-00)

The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-May-00)

The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 02-May-00)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) - Jared Diamond (1937-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 02-May-00)

David Copperfield (1850) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-May-00)

A Separate Peace (1960) - John Knowles (1926-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-00)

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1971) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Apr-00)

The Palace Thief (1994) - Ethan Canin (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-00)

The Swiss Family Robinson or Adventures on a Desert Island (1814) - Johann David Wyss (5/28/1743 -1/11/1818)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-00)

Men in Black (1995) - Scott Spencer (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 23-Apr-00)

Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 22-Apr-00)

Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling () - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Apr-00)

Beau Geste (1924) - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 17-Apr-00)

The Archivist (1998) - Martha Cooley (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 17-Apr-00)

Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited (1966) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Apr-00)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) - Lew Wallace (1827-1905)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Apr-00)

First Test (Protector of the Small) (1999) - Tamora Pierce (1954-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 09-Apr-00)

Midwives: A Novel (1997) - Chris Bohjalian (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 08-Apr-00)

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992) - Al Gore (1948-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 07-Apr-00)

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) - George Eliot (11/22/1819 -12/22/1880)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-Apr-00)

The Green Mile (1997) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-Apr-00)

Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (4/13/1906 -12/22/1989)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 04-Apr-00)

Hondo (1953) - Louis L'Amour (3/22/1908 -6/10/1988)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Apr-00)

Don Quijote (Part 1--1605, Part 2--1615) (1615) - Miquel de Cervantes (9/29/1547 -4/22/1616)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-Apr-00)

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello (1867 -1936)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-00)

Stones from the River (1994) - Ursula Hegi (1946-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 30-Mar-00)

The Ghost Road (1995) - Pat Barker (1943-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 30-Mar-00)

Neuromancer (1984) - William Gibson (1948-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 29-Mar-00)

October 1964 (1994) - David Halberstam (04/10/1934-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-00)

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) - Anna Sewell (1820-1878)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-00)

Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder (1997) - Melanie Thernstrom (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 23-Mar-00)

Last Chance to See (1990) - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - Mark Carwardine (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-Mar-00)

A Mathematician's Apology (1940) - G. H. Hardy (1877-1947)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 22-Mar-00)

Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (03/25/1925 -08/03/1964)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 22-Mar-00)

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999) - Neal Stephenson (1959-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-00)

Sacred Hoops : Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (1995) - Phil Jackson (-) - Hugh Delehanty (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 19-Mar-00)

Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997) - Arnold Rampersad (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Mar-00)

The Children of Green Knowe (1954) - Lucy Boston (1892-1990)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-00)

The Shipping News (1993) - E. Annie Proulx (8/22/1935 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-00)

Jerusalem (1996) - Cecelia Holland (1943-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-00)

Before and After (1992) - Rosellen Brown (05/12/1939-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 14-Mar-00)

'A' is for Alibi (1982) - Sue Grafton (1940-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Mar-00)

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Mar-00)

American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Mar-00)

The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights (1968) - Ted Hughes (8/17/1930 -10/28/1998)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Mar-00)

Blood and Chocolate (1997) - Annette Curtis Klause (1953-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Mar-00)

The Man Without a Country (1863) - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-00)

The 10 Commandments : The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life (1998) - Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947-) - Rabbi Stewart Vogel (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 08-Mar-00)

You Know Me, Al: A Busher's Letters (1914) - Ring Lardner (3/05/1885 -9/25/1933)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Mar-00)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) - P.D. James (08/03/1920 -11/27/2014)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 04-Mar-00)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) - Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 03-Mar-00)

The Emperor's Tomb (1938) - Joseph Roth (9/02/1894 -5/27/1939) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-00)

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-00)

The Radetzky March (1932) - Joseph Roth (9/02/1894 -5/27/1939)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-00)

Kindred (1979) - Octavia Butler (6/22/1947 -2/24/2006)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-00)

Jazz (1992) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-00)

The Monkey's Raincoat (1988) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 26-Feb-00)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (11/30/1835 -4/21/1910)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-00)

The Kid from Tomkinsville (1940) - John R. Tunis (1889-1975) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-00)

Young Man with a Horn (1938) - Dorothy Baker (-) (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-00)

The Sands of Karakorum (1953) - James Ramsey Ullman (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-00)

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998) - Iris Chang (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-00)

The War of the Rats (1999) - David L. Robbins (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-00)

The Flanders Panel (1994) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-00)

Planet of the Apes (1963) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 20-Feb-00)

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (1998) - Sherry Sontag (-) - Christopher Drew (-) - Annette Lawrence Drew (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Feb-00)

Eaters of the Dead (1976) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Feb-00)

Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993) - Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-00)

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (1998) - Lani Guinier (-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 14-Feb-00)

The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 14-Feb-00)

Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century (1996) - William J. Clinton (1946-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 13-Feb-00)

Tarzan of the Apes (1912) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-Feb-00)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) - Jules Verne (1828-1905) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-00)

The Spirit of St. Louis (1953) - Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Feb-00)

Doctor Zhivago (1956) - Boris Pasternak (02/10/1890 -5/30/1960)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 08-Feb-00)

Buffalo Soldiers (1996) - Tom Willard (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 08-Feb-00)

Dog Eat Dog (1996) - Edward Bunker (12/31/1933-07/19/2005)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-00)

Honor Thy Father (1971) - Gay Talese (1932 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-00)

I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story (1991) - Henry Aaron (1935-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 07-Feb-00)

The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Feb-00)

Violent Spring: An Ivan Monk Mystery (1994) - Gary Phillips (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 05-Feb-00)

The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (1999) - Linda Greenlaw (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 04-Feb-00)

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) - William Styron (1925-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Feb-00)

Hunger (1890) - Knut Hamsun (1859 -1952)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-00)

A Personal Matter (1969) - Kenzaburo Oe (1/31/1935 -3/03/2023) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-00)

Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990https://intranet.kingarthurflour.com/home.php) - H. G. Bissinger (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-00)

North Dallas Forty (1973) - Peter Gent (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-00)

Ethan Frome (1911) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jan-00)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Jan-00)

The Red House Mystery (1922) - A.A. Milne (1882-1956)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 23-Jan-00)

Ransom (1985) - Jay McInerney (1955-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 21-Jan-00)

The Brave Cowboy: an Old Tale in a New Time (1956) - Edward Abbey (1/29/1927 -3/14/1989)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Jan-00)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Jan-00)

The Journey to the East (1956) - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 20-Jan-00)

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) - Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Jan-00)

The Metamorphosis; and other stories (1915) - Franz Kafka (07/03/1883 -06/03/1924)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 18-Jan-00)

Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet (1991) - Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1945-1994)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 17-Jan-00)

BUtterfield 8 (1935) - John O'Hara (1/31/1905 -4/11/1970)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-00)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-00)

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) - Edmund Burke (1/12/1729 -7/09/1797)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-00)

Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-00)

The Sea Wolf (1904) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-00)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) - Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809 -10/07/1849)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-00)

Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York (1868) - Horatio Alger (1832-1899)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-00)

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) (Reviewed: 11-Jan-00)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1/07/1891 -1/28/1960)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Jan-00)

Last Train to Memphis : The Rise of Elvis Presley (1994) - Peter Guralnick ( -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Jan-00)

Tales from Two Pockets (1932) - Karel Capek (1/09/1890 -12/25/1938)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 08-Jan-00)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) - B. Traven (?-1969)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-00)

Homage to Catalonia (1938) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Jan-00)

Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-00)

The Game of Thirty (1994) - William Kotzwinkle (1938-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-00)

The Family of Pacual Duarte (1942) - Camilo Jose Cela (5/11/1916 -1/17/2002)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-00)

The Statement (1996) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-00)

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999) - Edmund Morris (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jan-00)

The House of Gentle Men (2000) - Kathy Hepinstall (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-00)

Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) (1999) - David M. Kennedy (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-00)

The Trial of Socrates (1988) - I.F. Stone (1907-1989)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-99)

The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953) - Isaac Asimov (1/02/1920 -4/06/1992)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-99)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (1974) - Heinrich Boll (1917-1985)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-99)

Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (1999) - Bill Gertz (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-99)

The Hollow Men (1927) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-99)

Welcome to Hard Times (1960) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 26-Dec-99)

The Sailor who Fell from the Grace with the Sea (1963) - Yukio Mishima (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 25-Dec-99)

Aspects of the Novel (1927) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 25-Dec-99)

Franny and Zooey (1961) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Dec-99)

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (1968) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-99)

1900 (1982) - Rebecca West (1892-1983)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-99)

Killing Floor (1997) - Lee Child (10/29/1954 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 19-Dec-99)

Taras Bulba (1839) - Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Dec-99)

The Sundial (1956) - Shirley Jackson (12/14/1916 -8/08/1965) (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-99)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) - Shirley Jackson (12/14/1916 -8/08/1965)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-99)

Palace of Desire: Book II of the Cairo Trilogy (1957) - Naguib Mahfouz (1911-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Dec-99)

Further Adventures (1993) - Jon Stephen Fink (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Dec-99)

Independent People: An Epic (1946) - Halldor Laxness (4/23/1902 -2/08/1998) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Dec-99)

Prometheus Bound (460 BC) - Aeschylus (525-456 BC)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Dec-99)

Madame Bovary (1857) - Gustave Flaubert (12/12/1821 -5/08/1880)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-99)

Poodle Springs (1989) - Raymond Chandler (7/23/1888 -3/26/1959) - Robert B. Parker (09/17/1932 -01/18/2010)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-99)

The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) - Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-99)

A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955) - Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-99)

A Test of Wills (1996) - Charles Todd ( -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 11-Dec-99)

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821 -02/09/1881)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 10-Dec-99)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Dec-99)

A Christmas Carol (1843) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Dec-99)

The Gift of the Magi () - O. Henry (1862 -1910)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Dec-99)

The Princess and the Goblin (1872) - George MacDonald (1824-1902)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-99)

The Storm (1998) - Frederick Buechner (07/11/1926 -08/15/22)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-99)

The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1990) - Robert H. Bork (03/01/1927 -12/19/2012) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-99)

Ulysses S. Grant : Soldier President (1997) - Geoffrey Perret (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-99)

In God We Trust : All Others Pay Cash (1966) - Jean Shepherd (7/26/1921 -10/16/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Dec-99)

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 04-Dec-99)

A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (1999) - Patrick J. Buchanan (11/02/1938 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 29-Nov-99)

The Painted Word (1975) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 29-Nov-99)

From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 29-Nov-99)

The Greatest Gift: The Original Story That Inspired the Christmas Classic It's a Wonderful Life (1943) - Philip Van Doren Stern (9/10/1900 -7/31/1984)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Nov-99)

Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819 -9/28/1891)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 22-Nov-99)

Oedipus Rex (430 BC) - Sophocles (496-406 BC)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-99)

Fathers and Sons (1862) - Ivan Turgenev (11/09/1818 -9/03/1883)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-99)

The Postman (Il Postino) (1985) - Antonio Skarmeta (1940-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-99)

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Last Great Lesson (1997) - Mitch Albom (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 13-Nov-99)

The Old Gringo (1985) - Carlos Fuentes (1928-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-99)

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996) - James McBride ( -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 07-Nov-99)

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) - Stephen Crane (11/01/1871 -6/05/1900)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-99)

The First Man (1995) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-99)

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (2/25/1917 -11/22/1993)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-99)

The Greatest Generation (1999) - Tom Brokaw (-)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-99)

A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) - James Cowan (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-99)

Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden (-) (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-99)

The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928 -5/05/1988)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Sep-99)

Pet Sematary (1983) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 06-Sep-99)

The Grifters (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Sep-99)

The Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-Sep-99)

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (1998) - Susan Orlean (10/31/1955 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Sep-99)

In Defense of Elitism (1994) - William A. Henry III (1950-1994)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-99)

Fer-de-Lance: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (1934) - Rex Stout (12/01/1886 -10/27/1975)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-99)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Aug-99)

The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (6/19/1900 -7/31/1944)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Aug-99)

Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) - Mark Harris (11/19/1922 -05/30/2007)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-99)

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) - Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 18-Aug-99)

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1948) - C.S. Forester (8/27/1899 -4/02/1966)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-99)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (5/19/1925 -2/21/1965) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 08-Aug-99)

The Case of the Baited Hook (1940) - Erle Stanley Gardner (07/17/1889 -03/11/1970) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-99)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-99)

White Oleander (1999) - Janet Fitch (-) (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-99)

Shane (1949) - Jack Warner Schaefer (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Jul-99)

The Nightingale's Song (1995) - Robert Timberg (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 08-Jul-99)

The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856) - Alexis De Tocqueville (7/29/1805 -4/16/1859)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 05-Jul-99)

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991) - Len Colodny (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 01-Jul-99)

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 16-Jun-99)

I, Claudius (1934) - Robert Graves (1895-1985)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 14-Jun-99)

The Oregon Trail (1847) - Francis Parkman (9/16/1823 -11/08/1893)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Jun-99)

Black Robe (1985) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-May-99)

Lindbergh (1998) - A. Scott Berg (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-May-99)

The Insidious Fu Manchu : Being a Somewhat Detailed Account of the Amazing Adventures of Nayland (1911) - Sax Rohmer (1886-06/01/1959) (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-May-99)

The Speed Queen (1997) - Stewart O'Nan (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-99)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) - Sherman Alexie (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-99)

The Crazy Kill (1959) - Chester Himes (1909 -1984)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-99)

A Shropshire Lad () - A. E. Housman (1859-1936)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-99)

To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-98)

Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek (1974) - Annie Dillard (4/30/1945 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-98)

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) - Sam Tanenhaus (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-98)

Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (1997) - Walter McDougall (12/03/1946 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-98)

Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-98)

High Fidelity (1995) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-98)

The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (1994) - Hugh Pearson (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-98)

Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) - Marguerite Yourcenar (6/08/1903 -12/17/1987)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-98)

The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-98)

Making Hay (1997) - Verlyn Klinkenborg ( -1952)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-98)

A Savage Place (1981) - Robert B. Parker (09/17/1932 -01/18/2010)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-97)

The Galton Case (1959) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915 -07/11/1983)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Nov-97)

On the Brink : The Dramatic Saga of How the Reagan Administration Changed the Course of History and Won the Cold War (1996) - Jay Winik (1957-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-97)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (5/15/1856 -5/06/1919)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Vox (1991) - Nicholson Baker (1/07/1957 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship (1997) - James Prosek (1975-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the NineteenthCentury (1999) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

A Wedding Gift: And Other Angling Stories (1992) - John Taintor Foote (1881-1950)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Sportswriter (1986) - Richard Ford (2/16/1944 -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Affliction (1989) - Russell Banks (3/28/1940 -1/07/2023)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (1991) - Ben Hamper (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Road from Coorain (1989) - Jill Ker Conway (1934-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934) - James Hilton (9/09/1900 -12/20/1954)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

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

Zen in the Art of Archery (1953) - Eugen Herrigel (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Brotherly Love (1991) - Pete Dexter (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Underworld () - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir (1949) - John Gunther (1901-1970)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

A River Runs Through It (1976) - Norman MacLean (1902 -1990)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Roughneck (1954) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) - Dava Sobel (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Third Man (1950) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) - Ken Kesey (9/17/1935 -11/10/2001)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist (1969) - John K. Terres (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Quiet American (1956) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States V Oliver North (1991) - Jeffrey Toobin (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Executioner's Song (1979) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Dandelion Wine (1957) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Optimist's Daughter (1972) - Eudora Welty (1909-2001)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Education of Little Tree (1976) - Forrest Carter (9/04/1925 -6/07/1979)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) - Simon Winchester (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Billy Bathgate (1989) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

A Summons to Memphis (1986) - Peter Taylor (1917-1994)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: )

The Horses Mouth (1944) - Joyce Cary (1888-1957)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976) - Richard Selzer (1928-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Father of Spin : Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations (1998) - Larry Tye (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page () - G.B. Edwards (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon (1991) - Jim Paul (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Hotel Du Lac (1984) - Anita Brookner (7/16/1928 -3/10/2016)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (9/26/1949 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Midnight's Children (1980) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) - Gerald Posner (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997) - Richard Rhodes (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Schindler's List (1982) - Thomas Keneally (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Moon Tiger (1987) - Penelope Lively (1933-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

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

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994) - John Ralston Saul (1947-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The God of Small Things (1997) - Arundhati Roy (1961-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

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

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

The Bear (1942) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) - Muriel Spark (2/01/1918 -4/12/2006)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Scoop (1937) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Thieves Like Us (1937) - Edward Anderson (1905-1969)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954) - Douglass Wallop (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Alexandria Quartet: Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea (1957-1960) - Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Main Street (1920) - Sinclair Lewis (2/07/1885 -1/10/1951)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (2/02/1923 -1/19/1997)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Swag (1976) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Finnegan's Wake (1939) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Old Wives' Tale (1908) - Arnold Bennett (5/27/1867 -3/27/1931)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Ragtime (1975) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Death of the Heart (1938) - Elizabeth Bowen (6/07/1899 -2/22/1973)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915 -04/05/2005)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

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

A Room with a View (1908) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Thick as Thieves (1995) - Patrick Quinn (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

King Suckerman (1997) - George Pelecanos (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Kim (1901) - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) - Anthony Powell (12/21/1905 -3/28/2000)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Point Counter Point (1928) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Arming America : The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000) - Michael A. Bellesiles ( -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story (1911) - Max Beerbohm (1872 -1956)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Parade's End [Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and The Last Post (1928)] (1924-1928) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873 -6/26/1939)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: )

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) - James Weldon Johnson (1871 -1938)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

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

The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

On the Road (1957) - Jack Kerouac (3/12/1922 -10/21/1969)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Light in August (1932) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) - Roald Dahl (9/13/1916 -11/23/1990)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) - James M Cain (7/1/1892 -10/27/77)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (12/07/1873 -4/24/1947)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

The Secret Agent (1907) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:D+) (Reviewed: )

The Rainbow (1915) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

A Book of Five Rings (1645) - Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Katherine (1995) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891 -1980)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Of Human Bondage (1915) - W. Somerset Maugham (1/25/1874 -12/16/1965)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Loving (1945) - Henry Green (10/29/1905 -12/13/1973)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Maus (1992) - Art Spiegelman (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Way of All Flesh (1903) - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Celebrant (1983) - Eric Rolfe Greenberg (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. () - Robert Coover (02/04/1932 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Sister Carrie (1900) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (2/19/1917 -9/29/1967)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915 -04/05/2005)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Appointment in Samarra (1934) - John O'Hara (1/31/1905 -4/11/1970)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Fathers Playing Catch With Sons : Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (1985) - Donald Hall (9/20/1928 -6/23/2018)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Shoeless Joe (1982) - W. P. Kinsella (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Comfort of Strangers (1981) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (11/111922 -4/11/2007)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (1998) - Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Hoopla (1983) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (9/05/1905 -3/01/1983)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Sons and Lovers (1913) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Under the Volcano (1947) - Malcolm Lowry (7/28/1909 -6/26/1957)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (9/13/1876 -3/08/1941)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (1922-1987)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Great Expectations (1860-61) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869 -05/19/1946)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Ginger Man (1955) - JP Donleavy (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Sheltering Sky (1949) - Paul Bowles (12/30/1910 -11/18/1999)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

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

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (8/24/1890 -5/14/1979)  (Grade:F-) (Reviewed: )

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

Ironweed (1983) - William Kennedy (01/16/1928-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Howards End (1910) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Penance (1995) - David Housewright (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Tender is the Night (1934) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Studs Lonigan [Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934),and Judgement Day (1935)] () - James T. Farrell (1904-1979)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Good Soldier (1915) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873 -6/26/1939)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

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) (Reviewed: )

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (4/24/1905 -9/15/1989)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

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

Tobacco Road (1932) - Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Up From Slavery (1901) - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Mexican Hat (1997) - Michael McGarrity (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998) - Iain Pears (1955-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Lottery (1948) - Shirley Jackson (12/14/1916 -8/08/1965)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) - Washington Irving (4/03/1783 -11/28/1859)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Exorcist (1971) - William Peter Blatty (1/07/1928 -1/12/2017)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997) - Kirsten Bakis (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

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

The Queen's Man (1996) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945 -1/22/2021)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution (1988) - AJ Langguth (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996) - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

At the Mountains of Madness (1931) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (8/20/1890 -3/15/1937)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Blood of the Covenant : A Novel of the Vampiric (1995) - Brent Monahan (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Blood of the Lamb (1992) - Thomas Monteleone (1946-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) - William James (1/11/1842 -8/26/1910)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971) - George V. Higgins (11/13/1939-11/06/1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

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

The Walls of Jericho (1997) - Jon Land (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Nightmare in Pink (1964) - John D. MacDonald (7/24/1916 -12/28/1986)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Touch of Evil (1992) - Whit Masterson (1920-1961)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Skeleton's Knee: A Joe Gunther Mystery Novel (1993) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Nightwing (1977) - Martin Cruz Smith (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Shelley (8/30/1797 -2/01/1851) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe () - Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809 -10/07/1849)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

There Was an Old Woman (1943) - Ellery Queen (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992) - Greg Dening (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

Siberian Light (1997) - Robin White (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Brazzaville Beach (1990) - William Boyd (3/07/1952 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971) - Charles Willeford (1919-1988)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Bone (1993) - Fae Myenne Ng (1957-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Giant's House: A Romance (1996) - Elizabeth McCracken (1966 -)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

A Case of Curiosities (1992) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

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

Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson (1956-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Captiva: A Doc Ford Novel (1996) - Randy Wayne White (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Prestige (1995) - Christopher Priest (1943-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Loo Sanction (1973) - Trevanian (6/12/1931 -12/14/2005)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Black and Blue (1997) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Night Crew (1997) - John Sandford (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Eagle's Brood: The Camlud Chronicles, vol.. 3 (1997) - Jack Whyte (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Rose (1996) - Martin Cruz Smith (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

A Simple Plan (1993) - Scott Smith (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (1998) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949) - Hope Muntz (08/08/1907 -1981)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Daughter of Time (1951) - Josephine Tey (7/25/1896 -2/13/1952)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

Pop. 1280 (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

The Winter King: Warlord Chronicles, vol. 1 (1996) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

I and Thou (1923) - Martin Buber (02/10/1878-1965)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) - Zane Grey (1/31/1872 -10/23/1939)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Searchers (1954) - Alan Le May (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Fatal Environment : The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (1985) - Richard Slotkin (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

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

Incident at Twenty-Mile (1998) - Trevanian (6/12/1931 -12/14/2005)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Reader (1999) - Bernhard Schlink (1944-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) - Jacquelyn Mitchard (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

Forever Flowing (1970) - Vasily Grossman (11/29/1905 -9/14.1964)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Weight of Water (1996) - Anita Shreve (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931 -8/05/2019)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Too Good to Be True : The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (1999) - Jan Harold Brunvand (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Jesus: a Revolutionary Biography (1994) - John Dominic Crossan (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Levels of the Game (1969) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder (1991) - Samuel Wilson Fussell (1958-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

A Civil Action (1995) - Jonathan Harr (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Poisonwood Bible (1999) - Barbara Kingsolver (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Selected Stories (1988) - Andre Dubus (1936-1999)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

While I Was Gone (1999) - Sue Miller (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar () - Paul Laurence Dunbar (6/27/1872 -2/09/1906)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859) - Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989) - Bartholomew Gill (1943-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Affluent Society (1958) - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) - Robert Coles (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) - Robert Graves (1895-1985)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

A Theory of Justice (1971) - John Rawls (02/21/1921 -11/24/2002)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Crime Partners (1971) - Donald Goines (12/15/1936 -10/21/1974)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) - Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969) - Sam Greenlee (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) - William Styron (1925-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Monkey House (1996) - John Fullerton (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) - Thomas S. Kuhn (1929 -1996)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Selected Poems of Edward Arlington Robinson () - Edwin Arlington Robinson (12/22/1869-04/05/1935)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

A Lesson Before Dying (1993) - Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The House Without a Key (1925) - Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Cover Story (1994) - Robert Cullen (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The General's Daughter (1992) - Nelson DeMille (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The American Political Tradition: and the Men Who Made It (1948) - Richard Hofstadter (08/16/1916 -10/24/1970)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Big Clock (1946) - Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

West With the Night (1941) - Beryl Markham (1902-1986)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The City in History (1961) - Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) - C. Vann Woodward (11/13/1908 -12/17/1999)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson (5/27/1907 -4/14/1964)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

House (1985) - Tracy Kidder (1945-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (1994) - Phillip K. Howard (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Fup (1983) - Jim Dodge (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) - Nelson Algren (3/28/1909 -5/09/1981)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Unkindest Cut: How a Hatchet-Man Critic Made His Own $7,000 Movie and Put It All on His Credit Card (1996) - Joe Queenan (1950-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Celestine Prophecy (1993) - James Redfield ( -)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Mismeasure of Man (1981) - Stephen Jay Gould (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

The Lathe of Heaven (1971) - Ursula K. Le Guin (10/21/1929 -1/22/2018)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Day of Wrath (1982) - Jonathan Valin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

I, the Jury (1947) - Mickey Spillane (1918-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Concrete River (1996) - John Shannon (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) - Sebastian Junger (01/01/1962 -)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Ordinary People (1976) - Judith Guest (3/29/1936 -)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Cast in Stone: A Leo Waterman Mystery (1996) - G.M. Ford (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

When Last Seen Alive: An Aaron Gunner Mystery (1997) - Gar Anthony Haywood (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

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

Dead Irish: a Dismas Hardy novel (1989) - John T. Lescroart (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

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

Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Mystery (1997) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin (1851-1904)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Night (1958) - Elie Wiesel (1928-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Wieland; or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) - Charles Brockden Brown (1/17/1771 -2/22/1810)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) - Nathanael West (1902-1940)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Archangel (1995) - Paul Watkins (1964-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: )

The Promise of Light (1992) - Paul Watkins (1964-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932 -01/27/2009)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Light in the Forest (1953) - Conrad Richter (1890-1968)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1955-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

A Wrinkle in Time (1962) - Madeleine L'Engle (11/29/1918 -09/06/2007)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Into Thin Air (1997) - Jon Krakauer (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

Tales of the Alhambra (1832) - Washington Irving (4/03/1783 -11/28/1859)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819 -9/28/1891)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

Iron and Silk (1987) - James Salter (6/10/1925 -06/19/2015)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Nobody's Fool (1994) - Richard Russo (-) (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Screwtape Letters (1943) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Paul Auster's City of Glass : A Graphic Mystery (1994) - Paul Auster (2/03/1947 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Aeneid (19 B.C.) - Virgil (70 B.C. -19 B.C.)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

1812: A Novel (1997) - David Nevin (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Of Mice and Men (1937) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th Century) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Beowulf (8th Century?) - Anonymous (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Lost Horizon (1933) - James Hilton (9/09/1900 -12/20/1954)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

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

The Virgin Suicides (1993) - Jeffrey Eugenides (3/08/1960 -)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Mister Roberts (1946) - Thomas Heggen (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

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

The First World War (1998) - John Keegan (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Hunters (1956) - James Salter (6/10/1925 -06/19/2015)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Airing Dirty Laundry (1993) - Ishmael Reed (2/22/1938 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Ambush at Fort Bragg (1997) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

A Man In Full (1998) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

The Rose of Tibet (1962) - Lionel Davidson (03/31/1922 -10/21/1999)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998) - Noah Hawley (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Shelley's Heart (1995) - Charles McCarry (1930-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) - Robert Graves (1895-1985)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1983) - Barbara Ehrenreich (8/26/1941 -9/01/2022)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Civil War Stories () - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) - Edwidge Danticat (1969-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Blue River (1991) - Ethan Canin (-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: )

Emperor of the Air: Stories (1988) - Ethan Canin (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

All Soul's Rising (1995) - Madison Smartt Bell (-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Charming Billy (1998) - Alice McDermott (1953-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: )

A Man for All Seasons (1960) - Robert Bolt (8/15/1924 -2/21/1995)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Orestes (408 BC) - Euripides (485-406 BC)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

The Beggar's Opera (1728) - John Gay (1685-1732)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Peer Gynt (1867) - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Archangel (1982) - Gerald Seymour (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

The Mark of the Assassin (1998) - Daniel Silva ( -)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

The Secret History (1992) - Donna Tartt (12/23/1963 -)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

A High Wind in Jamaica: The Innocent Voyage (1929) - Richard Hughes (1900-1976)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: )

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) - Doug Stanton (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

In La-la Land We Trust (1986) - Robert Campbell (1927-2000)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (7/23/1888 -3/26/1959)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Encounters with the Archdruid [Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of his Natural Enemies] (1971) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Pine Barrens (1968) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country (1992) - Franklin Burroughs (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Johnny Got His Gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: )

Black Narcissus (1939) - Rumer Godden (1907-1998)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Love Always (1985) - Ann Beattie (9/08/1947 -)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Invisible Man (1897) - H.G. Wells (9/21/1866 -8/13/1946)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II (1994) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

The Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (11/18/1939 -)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: )

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: )

Ender's Game (1985) - Orson Scott Card (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) - Philip Jose Farmer (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )

Neverwhere (1997) - Neil Gaiman (1960-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

Snow in August (1997) - Pete Hamill (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

Flowers for Algernon (1966) - Daniel Keyes (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: )

Anthem (1946) - Ayn Rand (02/02/1905 -03/06/1982)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: )

The Sparrow (1996) - Mary Doria Russell (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: )

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: )