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

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

Democracy: An American Novel (1880) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838 -1918)  (Grade:B)

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

Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York (1868) - Horatio Alger (1832-1899)  (Grade:B)

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

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - Maya Angelou (1928-)  (Grade:B)

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2002) - Tamim Ansary (1948-)  (Grade:B)

It's Not About the Bike : My Journey Back to Life (2000) - Lance Armstrong (1971-)  (Grade:B)

Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993) - Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)  (Grade:B)

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

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) - Richard Bach (-)  (Grade:B)

Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (1922-1987)  (Grade:B)

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

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

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

St. Petersburg (1913) - Andrey Bely (1880-1934)  (Grade:B)

Civil War Stories () - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)  (Grade:B)

The House Without a Key (1925) - Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)  (Grade:B)

Ficciones (1944) - Jorge Luis Borges (8/24/1899 -6/14/1986)  (Grade:B)

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

Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) - William Wells Brown (1814-1884)  (Grade:B)

The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (2001) - Tammy Bruce (-)  (Grade:B)

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

A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (1999) - Patrick J. Buchanan (11/02/1938 -)  (Grade:B)

The Son of Laughter (1993) - Frederick Buechner (07/11/1926 -08/15/22)  (Grade:B)

Dog Eat Dog (1996) - Edward Bunker (12/31/1933-07/19/2005)  (Grade:B)

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

In La-la Land We Trust (1986) - Robert Campbell (1927-2000)  (Grade:B)

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

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

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)

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

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (2004) - Paul Clayton (1948-)  (Grade:B)

Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) - Robert Conquest (07/15/1917 -08/03/2015)  (Grade:B)

Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:B)

The Secret Agent (1907) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:B)

The Winter King: Warlord Chronicles, vol. 1 (1996) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)  (Grade:B)

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

Eaters of the Dead (1976) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:B)

On Humour (Thinking in Action) (2002) - Simon Critchley ( -)  (Grade:B)

Jesus: a Revolutionary Biography (1994) - John Dominic Crossan (-)  (Grade:B)

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

TulipoMania: The Story Of The World's Most Coveted Flower & The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (2000) - Mike Dash (-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (6/19/1900 -7/31/1944)  (Grade:B)

A Glass Half Full (2002) - Felix Dennis (1947-)  (Grade:B)

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

Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:B)

Play It As It Lays: A Novel (1970) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:B)

Hardy Boys Mystery Series: The Crisscross Shadow (1953) - Franklin W. Dixon ( -)  (Grade:B)

The Stolen Child (2006) - Keith Donohue (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

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

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) - Philip Jose Farmer (-)  (Grade:B)

Empire (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:B)

Ashes of the Earth (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:B)

The Whipping Boy (1986) - Sid Fleischman (1920-)  (Grade:B)

Thatcher For Beginners (1997) - Carl Flint (-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Last King of Scotland (1998) - Giles Foden (1967-)  (Grade:B)

How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (2004) - Franklin Foer (-)  (Grade:B)

A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:B)

The Corrections (2001) - Jonathan Franzen (8/17/1959 -)  (Grade:B)

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

Grendel (1971) - John Gardner (1933 -1982)  (Grade:B)

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002) - Atul Gawande (1965-)  (Grade:B)

Volk's Game (2007) - Brent Ghelfi (-)  (Grade:B)

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

Ghost Image (2002) - Joshua Gilder (-)  (Grade:B)

Black Narcissus (1939) - Rumer Godden (1907-1998)  (Grade:B)

Zodiac (1986) - Robert Graysmith (09/17/1942-)  (Grade:B)

The Caveman's Valentine (1994) - George Dawes Green (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

October 1964 (1994) - David Halberstam (04/10/1934-)  (Grade:B)

A Nail Through the Heart (2007) - Timothy Hallinan (1942-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928)  (Grade:B)

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

Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)  (Grade:B)

A Dog's Ransom (1972) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:B)

The Dark Wind (1982) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)  (Grade:B)

The Crazy Kill (1959) - Chester Himes (1909 -1984)  (Grade:B)

No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (2000) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)  (Grade:B)

The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (1994) - Phillip K. Howard (-)  (Grade:B)

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

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1/07/1891 -1/28/1960)  (Grade:B)

Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:B)

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

Operation Napoleon (2003) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:B)

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)

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

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

Churchill: A Biography (2001) - Roy Jenkins (11/11/1920-2003)  (Grade:B)

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) - Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)  (Grade:B)

The Pyramid (1992) - Ismail Kadare (1936-)  (Grade:B)

Hart's War (199) - John Katzenbach (-)  (Grade:B)

How Late It Was, How Late (1994) - James Kelman (1946-)  (Grade:B)

Wild Thorns (Al-Subar) (1976) - Sahar Khalifeh (1941-)  (Grade:B)

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

House (1985) - Tracy Kidder (1945-)  (Grade:B)

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:B)

Fredericksburg : Squandered Courage and Uncertain Allegiance (2004) - Wyatt Kingseed (-)  (Grade:B)

Brownsville (2006) - Neil Kleid (-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Game of Thirty (1994) - William Kotzwinkle (1938-)  (Grade:B)

The Battle of Marathon (2010) - Peter Krentz (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution (1988) - AJ Langguth (-)  (Grade:B)

How the Russians Invented Baseball : And Other Essays of Enlightenment (1989) - John Leo (-)  (Grade:B)

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

Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (2006) - Mark Liberman (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

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

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

Lake Charles (2011) - Ed Lynskey (1956-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960)  (Grade:B)

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

Touch of Evil (1992) - Whit Masterson (1920-1961)  (Grade:B)

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

Wild Nights : Nature Returns to the City (2001) - Anne Matthews (1957-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Skeleton's Knee: A Joe Gunther Mystery Novel (1993) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)  (Grade:B)

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996) - James McBride ( -)  (Grade:B)

Truman (1992) - David McCullough (7/07/1933 -8/07/2022)  (Grade:B)

The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America (2001) - Louis Menand ( -)  (Grade:B)

The Restraint of Beasts (1998) - Magnus Mills (-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Setup Man (2014) - T. T. Monday (-)  (Grade:B)

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

Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Mystery (1997) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:B)

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

Norwegian Wood (1987) - Haruki Murakami (01/12/1949 -)  (Grade:B)

Young Torless (1906) - Robert Musil (11/06/1880 -4/15/1942)  (Grade:B)

Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:B)

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

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

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

The Physics of the Buffyverse (2006) - Jennifer Ouellette (-)  (Grade:B)

The Shawl (1989) - Cynthia Ozick (1928-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon (1991) - Jim Paul (-)  (Grade:B)

The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (1994) - Hugh Pearson (-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:B)

First Test (Protector of the Small) (1999) - Tamora Pierce (1954-)  (Grade:B)

Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) - Gerald Posner (-)  (Grade:B)

Thatcher For Beginners (1997) - Peter Pugh (-)  (Grade:B)

Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (2006) - Geoffrey K. Pullum (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

There Was an Old Woman (1943) - Ellery Queen (-)  (Grade:B)

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)

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)

The New Brain (2003) - Richard M. Restak (-)  (Grade:B)

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

Revelation Space (2000) - Alastair Preston Reynolds (1966-)  (Grade:B)

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002) - Howard Rheingold (-)  (Grade:B)

The Insidious Fu Manchu : Being a Somewhat Detailed Account of the Amazing Adventures of Nayland (1911) - Sax Rohmer (1886-06/01/1959)  (Grade:B)

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

The Death of a Nobody (1911) - Jules Romains (1885-1972)  (Grade:B)

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:B)

Nobody's Fool (1994) - Richard Russo (-)  (Grade:B)

An Uncertain Currency (1999) - Clyde Lynwood Sawyer, Jr (-)  (Grade:B)

The Seven Sins of Memory : How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (2001) - Daniel L. Schacter (-)  (Grade:B)

Farewell to the King (1969) - Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-)  (Grade:B)

The Book That Jack Wrote (1994) - Jon Scieszka (1954-)  (Grade:B)

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

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis : A Novella (1996) - Will Self (9/26/1961 -)  (Grade:B)

For Love of the Game (1991) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928 -5/05/1988)  (Grade:B)

Concrete River (1996) - John Shannon (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

Drood (2009) - Dan Simmons (04/04/1948-)  (Grade:B)

Edges: O Israel O Palestine (2005) - Leora Skolkin-Smith (1952-)  (Grade:B)

The Inquisitor (2012) - Mark Allen Smith ( -)  (Grade:B)

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

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:B)

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

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

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

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

The Loo Sanction (1973) - Trevanian (6/12/1931 -12/14/2005)  (Grade:B)

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

Where Men Hide (2006) - James B. Twitchell (-)  (Grade:B)

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)

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

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

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)

Resurrection Bay (2015) - Emma Viskic (1968-)  (Grade:B)

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

A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:B)

Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) - Nathanael West (1902-1940)  (Grade:B)

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

Descent into Hell (1937) - Charles Williams (1886 -1945)  (Grade:B)

An Uncertain Currency (1999) - Frances Witlin (-)  (Grade:B)

The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) - C. Vann Woodward (11/13/1908 -12/17/1999)  (Grade:B)

The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994) - Bob Woodward (1943-)  (Grade:B)

Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal (1999) - Meihong Xu (1963-)  (Grade:B)

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