Grade: A- (Sorted by Author's last name)
Last Chance to See (1990) - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) (Grade:A-)
The 47 Ronin Story (1970) - John Allyn (-) (Grade:A-)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American
West (1996) - Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-) (Grade:A-)
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics (1996) - Anonymous (-) (Grade:A-)
The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953) - Isaac Asimov (1/02/1920
-4/06/1992) (Grade:A-)
The Music of Chance (1990) - Paul Auster (2/03/1947
-) (Grade:A-)
In the Heat of the Night (1965) - John Ball (1911-1988) (Grade:A-)
The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-) (Grade:A-)
The Long Night Of The Watchman: Essays 1977-1989 (2018) - Vaclav Benda (8/08/1946
-6/02/1999) (Grade:A-)
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-)
The Death of Outrage : Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) - William J. Bennett (1943-) (Grade:A-)
The Demolished Man (1953) - Alfred Bester (1913-1987) (Grade:A-)
Tracks (2007) - Jim Black (1953
-) (Grade:A-)
The Sins of the Fathers (1976) - Lawrence Block (06/24/1938-) (Grade:A-)
The Shield of Achilles (2002) - Philip Bobbitt (07/22/1948
-) (Grade:A-)
Planet of the Apes (1963) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) (Grade:A-)
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920
-06/05/2012) (Grade:A-)
Ambling Into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002) - Frank Bruni (-) (Grade:A-)
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization () - Patrick J. Buchanan (11/02/1938
-) (Grade:A-)
Little Green Men (1999) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:A-)
Wry Martinis (1997) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:A-)
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) - John Bunyan (1628-1688) (Grade:A-)
Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-) (Grade:A-)
Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning (2008) - Kathleen Burk (-) (Grade:A-)
The Neon Rain (1987) - James Lee Burke (12/05/1936-) (Grade:A-)
The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998) - Thomas Cahill (-) (Grade:A-)
The Shape of Water (1994) - Andrea Camilleri (9/06/1925
-7/17/2019) (Grade:A-)
Last Chance to See (1990) - Mark Carwardine (-) (Grade:A-)
The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge (2003) - John L. Casti (1943-) (Grade:A-)
The Family of Pacual Duarte (1942) - Camilo Jose Cela (5/11/1916
-1/17/2002) (Grade:A-)
All the Way Down (1953) - M. E. Chaber (7/25/1910-11/29/1981) (Grade:A-)
My Utmost for His Highest (1927) - Oswald Chambers (07/24/1874-1917) (Grade:A-)
The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare (1908) - G. K. Chesterton (05/29/1874
-06/14/1936) (Grade:A-)
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians [Commentariolum Petitionis] (2012) - Quintus Tullius Cicero (102 BC
-43 BC) (Grade:A-)
The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) - Barbara Cleverly (-) (Grade:A-)
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-) (Grade:A-)
The All-New Illustrated Guide to Gardening: Now All Organic! (2009) - Trevor Cole (-) (Grade:A-)
Mrs. Bridge (1959) - Evan S. Connell (8/17/1924
-1/10/2013) (Grade:A-)
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. () - Robert Coover (02/04/1932
-) (Grade:A-)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) - Ann H. Coulter (12/08/1961-) (Grade:A-)
Dark Matter (2016) - Blake Crouch (1978-) (Grade:A-)
On Great White Wings : The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight (2001) - Fred E. C. Culick (-) (Grade:A-)
The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) - George Dangerfield (10/28/1904
-12/27/1986) (Grade:A-)
Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992) - Greg Dening (-) (Grade:A-)
The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times (2006) - Anthony DePalma (-) (Grade:A-)
Fup (1983) - Jim Dodge (-) (Grade:A-)
The Brain that Changes Itself (2007) - Norman Doidge (-) (Grade:A-)
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) - Stephen J. Dubner (-) (Grade:A-)
House of Sand and Fog (1999) - Andre Dubus III (9/11/1959
-) (Grade:A-)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888
-1/04/1965) (Grade:A-)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888
-1/04/1965) (Grade:A-)
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-) (Grade:A-)
Black Dahlia (1987) - James Ellroy (3/04/1948
-) (Grade:A-)
The Princess of Burundi (Ann Lindell Mysteries) (2002) - Kjell Eriksson (1953-) (Grade:A-)
Orestes (408 BC) - Euripides (485-406 BC) (Grade:A-)
Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2001) - Elizabeth A. Fenn (1959-) (Grade:A-)
Cold Blood (2009) - James Fleming (1944-) (Grade:A-)
Aspects of the Novel (1927) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879
-6/07/1970) (Grade:A-)
Drawing Life : Surviving the Unabomber (1997) - David Gelernter (-) (Grade:A-)
A Great Deliverance: an Inspector Lynley Mystery (1988) - Susan Elizabeth George (02/26/1949-) (Grade:A-)
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (2007) - John Ghazvinian (-) (Grade:A-)
The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009) - Ted Gioia (10/21/1957
-) (Grade:A-)
A Little History of the World (1936) - Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (03/30/1909
-11/03/2001) (Grade:A-)
A Republic, If You Can Keep It (2019) - Neil McGill Gorsuch (08/29/1967
-) (Grade:A-)
A Cold Case (2001) - Philip Gourevitch (1961-) (Grade:A-)
The Third Man (1950) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904
-4/03/1991) (Grade:A-)
Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-) (Grade:A-)
Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir (1949) - John Gunther (1901-1970) (Grade:A-)
Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson (2010) - Kent Gustavson (-) (Grade:A-)
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) (1998) - Margaret Peterson Haddix (04/09/1964-) (Grade:A-)
The Forever War (1943) - Joe Haldeman (-) (Grade:A-)
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (2008) - Mark Harris (11/25/1963
-) (Grade:A-)
Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History (2004) - Lee Harris (-) (Grade:A-)
Archangel (1998) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957
-) (Grade:A-)
Enigma (1995) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957
-) (Grade:A-)
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education (2001) - Jeffrey Peter Hart (1930
-) (Grade:A-)
When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Martha Henissart (1929-) (Grade:A-)
Rocket Boys: A Memoir (1998) - Homer H. Hickam, Jr. (1943-) (Grade:A-)
Strangers on a Train (1950) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921
-2/04/1995) (Grade:A-)
Canaan (1996) - Geoffrey Hill (1932
-) (Grade:A-)
Skinwalkers (1986) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925
-10/26/2008) (Grade:A-)
Waking Lazarus (2006) - T. L. Hines (1966-) (Grade:A-)
High Fidelity (1995) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957
-) (Grade:A-)
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2009) - Charlie Huston (-) (Grade:A-)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006) (Grade:A-)
Godiva and the Golden Dragon (2001) - Steven James (-) (Grade:A-)
Waiting (1999) - Ha Jin (1956-) (Grade:A-)
In the City of Fear (1982) - Ward S. Just (1935-) (Grade:A-)
The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952
-) (Grade:A-)
Across the Red Line : Stories from the Surgical Life (2002) - Richard C. Karl (1945-) (Grade:A-)
Shakespeare's Language (2000) - Frank Kermode (11/29/1919
-08/17/2010) (Grade:A-)
A Quiet Flame (2009) - Philip Kerr (1956-) (Grade:A-)
The Green Mile (1997) - Stephen King (09/21/1947
-) (Grade:A-)
Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-) (Grade:A-)
Seven Days to the Sea: an Epic Novel of The Exodus (2006) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-) (Grade:A-)
Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health (2003) - Gina Kolata (02/25/1948-) (Grade:A-)
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) - Michael Korda (10/08/1933
-) (Grade:A-)
Into Thin Air (1997) - Jon Krakauer (-) (Grade:A-)
The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970) (Grade:A-)
Hondo (1953) - Louis L'Amour (3/22/1908
-6/10/1988) (Grade:A-)
The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - John Lanchester (1962-) (Grade:A-)
When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Mary J. Latsis (07/12/1927-10/29/1997) (Grade:A-)
The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life (2009) - David Lawday (1938-) (Grade:A-)
The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory (2002) - Derek Leebaert (
-) (Grade:A-)
Death in a Strange Country : a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (1993) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942
-) (Grade:A-)
The Death of Napoleon [La Mort de Napoleon] (1986) - Simon Leys (1935-) (Grade:A-)
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (2002) - Andro Linklater (-) (Grade:A-)
The Feast of the Goat (2000) - Mario Vargas Llosa (3/28/1936
-) (Grade:A-)
The Sea Wolf (1904) - Jack London (1876-1916) (Grade:A-)
The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2005) - Michael Mandelbaum (1946-) (Grade:A-)
First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton (1995) - David Maraniss (-) (Grade:A-)
Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-) (Grade:A-)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) - William Maxwell (08/16/1908-07/31/2000) (Grade:A-)
Fat Ollie's Book : A Novel of the 87th Precinct (2002) - Ed McBain (10/15/1926
-07/06/2005) (Grade:A-)
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819
-9/28/1891) (Grade:A-)
Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819
-9/28/1891) (Grade:A-)
A Fine Balance (1996) - Rohinton Mistry (1952-) (Grade:A-)
Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985) - Alexander Nehamas (03/22/1946-) (Grade:A-)
The Old Religion in the New World: The History of North American Christianity (2001) - Mark A. Noll (7/18/1946
-) (Grade:A-)
What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990) - Peggy Noonan (1950-) (Grade:A-)
Treason's Harbour (1983) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914
-01/02/2000) (Grade:A-)
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-)
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness (2004) - Buster Olney (-) (Grade:A-)
Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-) (Grade:A-)
Out of My League (1961) - George Ames Plimpton (03/18/1927-09/25/2003) (Grade:A-)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) - Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809
-10/07/1849) (Grade:A-)
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-) (Grade:A-)
The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943
-) (Grade:A-)
The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2004) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943
-) (Grade:A-)
Letter to a Man in the Fire : Does God Exist and Does He Care? (1999) - Reynolds Price (1933-) (Grade:A-)
The Mummy Congress : Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (2001) - Heather Pringle (-) (Grade:A-)
The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2010) - Matthew Beynon Rees (1967-) (Grade:A-)
The Dice Man (1971) - Luke Rhinehart (11/15/1932
-11/06/2020) (Grade:A-)
Out of America : A Black Man Confronts Africa (1997) - Keith B. Richburg (-) (Grade:A-)
The Last Jihad (2002) - Joel C. Rosenberg (-) (Grade:A-)
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the NineteenthCentury (1999) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943
-) (Grade:A-)
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (2000) - Sally Satel, M. D. (-) (Grade:A-)
Calculating God (2000) - Robert J. Sawyer (1960-) (Grade:A-)
Roman Blood (1991) - Steven Saylor (05/23/1956-) (Grade:A-)
How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976) - Francis August Schaeffer (01/30/1912-1984) (Grade:A-)
Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (2/25/1895
-8/31/1977) (Grade:A-)
Staying On (1977) - Paul Scott (1920-1978) (Grade:A-)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) - Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) (Grade:A-)
The Tragedy of Richard III (1593) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism)
-4/23/1616) (Grade:A-)
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996) - Roger Shattuck (08/20/1923-12/08/2005) (Grade:A-)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) (Grade:A-)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) - Dava Sobel (-) (Grade:A-)
Oedipus Rex (430 BC) - Sophocles (496-406 BC) (Grade:A-)
Baghdad Sketches (1933) - Freya Stark (05/09/1893-1993) (Grade:A-)
GAME: MooT (1998) - Jon Steeves (-) (Grade:A-)
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948
-) (Grade:A-)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902
-12/20/1968) (Grade:A-)
Virtually Normal : An Argument About Homosexuality (1995) - Andrew Sullivan (8/10/1963
-) (Grade:A-)
Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist (1991) - Roger B. Swain (02/05/1949-) (Grade:A-)
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003) - Anthony Swofford (-) (Grade:A-)
Vienna Secrets: A Max Liebermann Mystery : Volume Four of the Liebermann Papers (2009) - Frank Tallis (9/01/1958
-) (Grade:A-)
The Secret History (1992) - Donna Tartt (12/23/1963
-) (Grade:A-)
The Count and the Confession (2002) - John Taylor (1955-) (Grade:A-)
Pop. 1280 (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977) (Grade:A-)
Hadji Murad (1911) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828
-11/20/1910) (Grade:A-)
Deep and Crisp and Even (1981) - Peter Turnbull (1950-) (Grade:A-)
The House of Daniel: A novel of miracles, magic, and minor league ball (2016) - Harry Turtledove (06/14/1949-) (Grade:A-)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (11/30/1835
-4/21/1910) (Grade:A-)
Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt (2008) - Joyce Tyldesley (-) (Grade:A-)
Republicanism (1999) - Maurizio Viroli (
-) (Grade:A-)
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture (1962) - Robert Warshow (1917-1955) (Grade:A-)
Men at Arms (Volume One of the Sword of Honour Trilogy) (1952) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:A-)
The Invisible Man (1897) - H.G. Wells (9/21/1866
-8/13/1946) (Grade:A-)
1900 (1982) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A-)
Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (2008) - Jonathan Wilson (-) (Grade:A-)
A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) - Don Winslow (1953-) (Grade:A-)
A Man In Full (1998) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931
-5/14/2018) (Grade:A-)
Beau Geste (1924) - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941) (Grade:A-)
The Lost Daughter of Happiness : A Novel (2001) - Geling Yan (-) (Grade:A-)
Revolutionary Road (1961) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992) (Grade:A-)
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (2002) - Richard Zacks (1955-) (Grade:A-)
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