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

'46, Chicago (2002) - Steve Monroe (-)  (Grade:A)

1812: A Novel (1997) - David Nevin (-)  (Grade:B+)

1900 (1982) - Rebecca West (1892-1983)  (Grade:A-)

1984 (1949) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949)  (Grade:A+)

The 401k Market Buster (2002) - Eddie Kwong (-)  (Grade:TBD)

The 47 Ronin Story (1970) - John Allyn (-)  (Grade:A-)

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

A Year in the Merde (2004) - Stephen Clarke (-)  (Grade:A)

'A' is for Alibi (1982) - Sue Grafton (1940-)  (Grade:A)

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 (1898-1963)  (Grade:A+)

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990) - Laurence H. Tribe (1941-)  (Grade:F)

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

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

The Absence of Nectar (2001) - Kathy Hepinstall (-)  (Grade:B+)

Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998) - Richard Rorty (1931-)  (Grade:D+)

Across the Red Line : Stories from the Surgical Life (2002) - Richard C. Karl (1945-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Adam Smith in His Time and Ours (1995) - Jerry Z. Muller (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005)  (Grade:F)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain (1835-1910)  (Grade:A-)

The Adversary : A True Story of Monstrous Deception [L'Adversaire] (2000) - Emmanuel Carrere (1957-)  (Grade:C)

Advise and Consent (1959) - Allen Drury (-1998)  (Grade:A)

The Aeneid (19 B.C.) - Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.)  (Grade:A)

The Aerodrome : A Love Story (1941) - Rex [Ernest] Warner (1905-1986)  (Grade:A+)

Affliction (1989) - Russell Banks (1940-)  (Grade:B-)

The Affluent Society (1958) - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-)  (Grade:F)

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006) - Steven Pressfield (-)  (Grade:A-)

The African Queen (1935) - C.S. Forester (1899-1966)  (Grade:A)

After Virtue : A Study in Moral Theory (1981) - Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (01/12/1929-)  (Grade:A)

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

The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1862-1937)  (Grade:A)

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

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

Airing Dirty Laundry (1993) - Ishmael Reed (1938-)  (Grade:C+)

Albert Camus & Jean Grenier: Correspondence 1932-1960 (1981) - Albert Camus (1913-1960)  (Grade:B)

Aleck Maury, Sportsman (1934) - Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895-1981)  (Grade:A)

Alexander Hamilton, American (1999) - Richard Brookhiser (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Alexandria Quartet: Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea (1957-1960) - Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)  (Grade:F)

The Alienist (1994) - Caleb Carr (1955-)  (Grade:C+)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)  (Grade:C)

All Soul's Rising (1995) - Madison Smartt Bell (-)  (Grade:F)

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)  (Grade:A+)

All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (1933-)  (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 (1947-)  (Grade:A-)

All Too Human : A Political Education (1999) - George Stephanopoulos (1961-)  (Grade:C+)

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

Almost History : Close Calls, Plan B's, and Twists of Fate in America's Past (2000) - Roger Bruns (-)  (Grade:A)

Amazing Grace : A Vocabulary of Faith (1998) - Kathleen Norris (1947-)  (Grade:A)

The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (1843-1916)  (Grade:D)

Ambling Into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002) - Frank Bruni (-)  (Grade:A-)

Ambush at Fort Bragg (1997) - Tom Wolfe (1931-)  (Grade:A)

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

The American Cause (1957) - Russell Kirk (1918-1994)  (Grade:A)

The American Language (1936) - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)  (Grade:A)

American Nomad: Pop Visions, Restless Politics, and Apocalyptic Memories at the End of the Millennium (1997) - Steve Erickson (1950-)  (Grade:A)

American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (-)  (Grade:B+)

The American Political Tradition: and the Men Who Made It (1948) - Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)  (Grade:F)

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

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us (1996) - James Carroll (1943-)  (Grade:D-)

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier (-)  (Grade:B+)

American Spectator's Enemies List (1996) - P.J. O'Rourke (1947-)  (Grade:B-)

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996) - Joseph J. Ellis (-)  (Grade:A-)

An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)  (Grade:F)

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) - Gordon S. Wood (1933-)  (Grade:A)

Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey (1981) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-)  (Grade:A)

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

The Anatomy of Fascism (2004) - Robert O. Paxton (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Angela's Ashes : A Memoir (1996) - Frank McCourt (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Angle of Repose (1971) - Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)  (Grade:C)

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

Animal Farm (1945) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949)  (Grade:A+)

Annals of the Former World (1998) - John McPhee (1931-)  (Grade:B+)

Anonymous Lawyer : A Novel (2006) - Jeremy Blachman (-)  (Grade:A+)

Another November (1986) - Roger Grenier (1919-)  (Grade:C)

Anthem (1946) - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)  (Grade:A)

Anthony Blunt: His Lives (2001) - Miranda Carter (-)  (Grade:F)

Anti-Americanism (2003) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)  (Grade:B+)

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) - Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)  (Grade:D)

Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)  (Grade:B)

The Apple and the Arrow (1951) - Conrad Buff (1886-1975) - Mary Buff (1890-1970)  (Grade:A)

Appointment in Samarra (1934) - John O'Hara (1905-1970)  (Grade:A)

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

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

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments or the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (1885) - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)  (Grade:A)

Archangel (1982) - Gerald Seymour (-)  (Grade:A+)

Archangel (1998) - Robert Harris (1957-)  (Grade:A-)

Archangel (1995) - Paul Watkins (1964-)  (Grade:B-)

The Archivist (1998) - Martha Cooley (-)  (Grade:D)

Arguing About War (2004) - Michael Walzer (-)  (Grade:A)

Arming America : The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000) - Michael A. Bellesiles (-)  (Grade:F)

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

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) - Jules Verne (1828-1905)  (Grade:A+)

As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (1897-1962)  (Grade:F)

As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (2000) - John Colapinto (1958-)  (Grade:A+)

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-)

Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People (2000) - Helen Zia (-)  (Grade:C)

Aspects of the Novel (1927) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970)  (Grade:A-)

The Assault [El Asalto] (1990) - Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990)  (Grade:C)

Asterix the Legionary (1967) - Rene Goscinny (1926-1977)  (Grade:C)

At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election (2001) - Bill Sammon (-)  (Grade:B+)

At the Mountains of Madness (1931) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)  (Grade:B+)

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

Author Unknown : On the Trail of Anonymous (2000) - Donald W. Foster (-)  (Grade:A)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) - James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)  (Grade:B+)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (1925-1965)  (Grade:A+)

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

The Avengers: Too Many Targets (1990) - David Rogers (-) - John Peel (1954-)  (Grade:C)

The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin (1851-1904)  (Grade:B+)

Babbitt (1922) - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)  (Grade:A)

The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery (2002) - Ruth Rendell (02/17/1930-)  (Grade:B+)

Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (2001) - Tyler Bridges (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Baghdad Without a Map : And Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991) - Tony Horwitz (1958-)  (Grade:A)

Balsamic Dreams : A Short But Self-important History of the Baby Boomer Generation (2001) - Joe Queenan (1950-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) - Mark Harris (1922-)  (Grade:A+)

Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Baptism for the Dead (1988) - Robert R. Irvine (-)  (Grade:A)

Barabbas (1951) - Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974)  (Grade:A+)

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

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (1853) - Herman Melville (1819-1891)  (Grade:A-)

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

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

The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-)  (Grade:B+)

The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Beach (1997) - Alex Garland (1970-)  (Grade:C+)

The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994) - Jonathan Weiner (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Bear (1942) - William Faulkner (1897-1962)  (Grade:B+)

Beau Geste (1924) - Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941)  (Grade:A-)

A Beautiful Mind : A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 (1998) - Sylvia Nasar (-)  (Grade:C)

Becket or The Honor of God (1960) - Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)  (Grade:A)

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

Becoming Madame Mao (2000) - Anchee Min (01/14/1957-)  (Grade:C+)

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994) - Laurie R. King (-)  (Grade:C)

Before and After (1992) - Rosellen Brown (05/12/1939-)  (Grade:C)

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) - Rick Perlstein (1969-)  (Grade:A)

The Beggar's Opera (1728) - John Gay (1685-1732)  (Grade:A)

Being There (1970) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:B-)

A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (1914-1993)  (Grade:B+)

Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (1931-)  (Grade:F)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) - Lew Wallace (1827-1905)  (Grade:A+)

A Bend in the River (1979) - V.S. Naipaul (1932-)  (Grade:C)

Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts (2005) - Robert Zubrin (-)  (Grade:A)

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

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

Beowulf (8th Century?) - Burton Raffel (1930-) - Anonymous (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Best American Sports Writing : 2000 (2000) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:C+)

Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000) - Laurie Garrett (-)  (Grade:F)

Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (1999) - Bill Gertz (-)  (Grade:C)

A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) - Lewis Sorley (1934-)  (Grade:A)

Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century (1996) - William J. Clinton (1946-)  (Grade:D)

Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000) - Giles Milton (-)  (Grade:A)

The Big Clock (1946) - Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)  (Grade:B-)

The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)  (Grade:A+)

Billy Bathgate (1989) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-)  (Grade:C)

Billy Budd, Foretopman (1891) - Herman Melville (1819-1891)  (Grade:A-)

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

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994) - Anne Lamott (-)  (Grade:D)

The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) - Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923)  (Grade:B+)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)  (Grade:C)

The Birthmark (1844) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)  (Grade:A)

Black and Blue (1997) - Ian Rankin (1960-)  (Grade:A+)

Black and Blue (1998) - Anna Quindlen (1952-)  (Grade:D+)

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) - Anna Sewell (1820-1878)  (Grade:B-)

Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (1908-1960)  (Grade:C)

Black Dahlia (1987) - James Ellroy (1948-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Black Empire (1936-38) - George S. Schuyler (1895-1977)  (Grade:A-)

Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War (1999) - Mark Bowden (1951-)  (Grade:A+)

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

Black Robe (1985) - Brian Moore (1921-1999)  (Grade:B+)

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

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (1968) - Phillip K. Dick (1929-1982)  (Grade:B+)

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (1998) - Annette Lawrence Drew (-) - Christopher Drew (-) - Sherry Sontag (-)  (Grade:B+)

Blood and Chocolate (1997) - Annette Curtis Klause (1953-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Blood of the Covenant : A Novel of the Vampiric (1995) - Brent Monahan (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Blood of the Lamb (1992) - Thomas Monteleone (1946-)  (Grade:C)

The Blooding of the Guns : A novel of the Battle of Jutland [The Everard Naval Series, No. 1] (1976) - Alexander Fullerton (1924-)  (Grade:C)

Blue Chipper : A Morgan Hunt Novel (1992) - Geoffrey Norman (-)  (Grade:A)

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

Blue River (1991) - Ethan Canin (-)  (Grade:D)

Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) - David Brooks (-)  (Grade:C)

Body Count: Moral Poverty...and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drug (1996) - John P. Walters (-) - John DiIulio Jr. (-) - William J. Bennett (1943-)  (Grade:B-)

Bone (1993) - Fae Myenne Ng (1957-)  (Grade:B+)

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page () - G.B. Edwards (-)  (Grade:A+)

A Book of Five Rings (1645) - Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)  (Grade:C+)

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

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

The Book of Virtues : A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:A+)

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

Booked to Die (1992) - John Dunning (-)  (Grade:A)

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

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

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

Brain Storm (1998) - Richard Dooling (-)  (Grade:A)

The Brave Cowboy: an Old Tale in a New Time (1956) - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)  (Grade:B+)

Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)  (Grade:A)

Brazzaville Beach (1990) - William Boyd (1952-)  (Grade:A)

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

Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (2001) - Michael Watkins (-)  (Grade:B+)

Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) - Edwidge Danticat (1969-)  (Grade:C-)

Breathing Lessons (1988) - Anne Tyler (1941-)  (Grade:C)

Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)  (Grade:C)

The Bridge at No Gun Ri : A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War (2001) - Charles J. Hanley (-)  (Grade:D)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) - Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)  (Grade:C)

The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)  (Grade:A+)

Bridge to Terabithia (1977) - Katherine Paterson (1932-)  (Grade:A)

A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) - Stephen W. Hawking (1942-)  (Grade:B-)

Bright Lights, Big City (1984) - Jay McInerney (1955-)  (Grade:A)

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-)  (Grade:C)

Brotherly Love (1991) - Pete Dexter (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Buffalo Soldiers (1996) - Tom Willard (-)  (Grade:C)

Bulow Hammock : Mind in a Forest (1988) - David Rains Wallace (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999) - Wole Soyinka (1934-)  (Grade:D)

The Burnt Orange Heresy (1971) - Charles Willeford (1919-1988)  (Grade:A)

BUtterfield 8 (1935) - John O'Hara (1905-1970)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Caine Mutiny (1951) - Herman Wouk (1915-)  (Grade:D+)

Calculating God (2000) - Robert J. Sawyer (1960-)  (Grade:A-)

The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A)

Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A)

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

Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992) - Dana Gioia (1950-)  (Grade:B+)

Canaan (1996) - Geoffrey Hill (1932-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Capitalism and Freedom () - Milton Friedman (-)  (Grade:A+)

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

Captiva: A Doc Ford Novel (1996) - Randy Wayne White (-)  (Grade:A)

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

Carnegie (2002) - Peter Krass (-)  (Grade:A)

Carry On, Jeeves (1925) - P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)  (Grade:A+)

Carter Beats the Devil (2001) - Glen David Gold (-)  (Grade:C+)

Case Closed () - Gerald Posner (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Case For Democracy : The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) - Natan Sharansky (01/20/1948-)  (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-)

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

A Case of Curiosities (1992) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-)  (Grade:B+)

The Case of Madeleine Smith : Treasury of Victorian Murder (2006) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:A)

The Case of the Baited Hook (1940) - Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)  (Grade:B+)

Cast in Stone: A Leo Waterman Mystery (1996) - G.M. Ford (-)  (Grade:B-)

Casting the Runes (1911) - M. R. James (1862-1936)  (Grade:A)

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

The Catastrophist (1997) - Ronan Bennett (1956-)  (Grade:B+)

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (1923-1999)  (Grade:A)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1919-)  (Grade:A+)

Cato: A Tragedy (1713) - Joseph Addison (1672-1719)  (Grade:A+)

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

The Celebrant (1983) - Eric Rolfe Greenberg (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Celestine Prophecy (1993) - James Redfield (-)  (Grade:F)

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

Centesimus Annus (1991) - Pope John Paul II Pope (1920-4/2/2005)  (Grade:)

The Central Liberal Truth : How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself (2006) - Lawrence E. Harrison (-)  (Grade:B+)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) - Roald Dahl (1916-1990)  (Grade:A)

Charlotte's Web (1952) - E. B. White (1899-1985)  (Grade:A+)

Charming Billy (1998) - Alice McDermott (1953-)  (Grade:C-)

A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955) - Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)  (Grade:A)

Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) - Robert Coles (-)  (Grade:C)

The Children of Green Knowe (1954) - Lucy Boston (1892-1990)  (Grade:A)

The Children of Men (1992) - P.D. James (08/03/1920-)  (Grade:A+)

A Choice Not an Echo (1964) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924-)  (Grade:C+)

The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok (1929-)  (Grade:A+)

Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World (2001) - Robert P. Kraynak (1949-)  (Grade:A)

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

A Christmas Carol (1843) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)  (Grade:A+)

A Christmas Dozen (from the Christmas Story Pastor) (2000) - Steve Burt (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Citadel on the Mountain : A Memoir of Father and Son (2000) - Richard Wertime (-)  (Grade:C-)

The City in History (1961) - Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)  (Grade:D)

A Civil Action (1995) - Jonathan Harr (-)  (Grade:C+)

Civil War () - Shelby Foote (-)  (Grade:A+)

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

Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (1998) - Stephen L. Carter (1954-)  (Grade:B-)

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

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) - Samuel P. Huntington (-)  (Grade:B+)

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999) - Witold Rybczynski (-)  (Grade:A-)

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)  (Grade:A)

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

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

A Cold Case (2001) - Philip Gourevitch (1961-)  (Grade:A-)

A Cold Day in Paradise (1998) - Steve Hamilton (-)  (Grade:C)

Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (1950-)  (Grade:C)

A Collection of Essays (1954) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949)  (Grade:A+)

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

The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944-)  (Grade:B+)

Remembrance of Things Past : Combray (1998) - Stephane Heuet (-)  (Grade:B+)

Comes a Horseman (2005) - Robert Liparulo (-)  (Grade:A)

The Comfort of Strangers (1981) - Ian McEwan (1948-)  (Grade:C-)

The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988) - Timothy Ferris (-)  (Grade:A)

Coming Up for Air (1939) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949)  (Grade:A+)

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Communist Manifesto (1848) - Karl Marx (1818-1883) - Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)  (Grade:F)

The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work (1997) - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)  (Grade:C+)

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar () - Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)  (Grade:B+)

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe () - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)  (Grade:A+)

Completing the Revolution : A Vision for Victory in 2000 (2000) - Robert D. Novak (1931-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969)  (Grade:B-)

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) - William Styron (1925-)  (Grade:C+)

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

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

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

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) - Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)  (Grade:A+)

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

The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot (1953) - Russell Kirk (1918-1994)  (Grade:A+)

All Humor is Conservative (06/20/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F)

A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998) - Noah Hawley (-)  (Grade:A)

Constantine's Sword :The Church and the Jews: A History (2000) - James Carroll (1943-)  (Grade:F)

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990) - Shelby Steele (1946-)  (Grade:C+)

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) - Don Winslow (1953-)  (Grade:A-)

Cool Hand Luke (1965) - Donn Pearce (-)  (Grade:A+)

Corelli's Mandolin (1994) - Louis De Bernieres (1954-)  (Grade:C)

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

The Count and the Confession (2002) - John Taylor (1955-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Cover Story (1994) - Robert Cullen (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Creating Equal : My Fight Against Race Preferences (2000) - Ward Connerly (1939-)  (Grade:A)

Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-)  (Grade:A-)

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821-02/09/1881)  (Grade:C)

Crime Partners (1971) - Donald Goines (1937-1974)  (Grade:C+)

Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates () - Harry V. Jaffa (-)  (Grade:A)

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

Crunchy Cons : How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, ... America (or at least the Republican Party) (2006) - Rod Dreher (1967-)  (Grade:C)

The Culture We Deserve (1989) - Jacques Barzun (1907-)  (Grade:A)

The Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) - Stephen King (1947-)  (Grade:C)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) - Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)  (Grade:A+)

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) - Anthony Powell (1905-2000)  (Grade:B-)

Dandelion Wine (1957) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920-)  (Grade:A+)

The Dark Wind (1982) - Tony Hillerman (1925-)  (Grade:B)

Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)  (Grade:A+)

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) - William Styron (1925-)  (Grade:C)

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

The Daughter of Time (1951) - Josephine Tey (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Daughters of Cain (1994) - Colin Dexter (1930-)  (Grade:A+)

David Copperfield (1850) - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)  (Grade:A)

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

Day of Infamy (1957) - Walter Lord (1917-)  (Grade:A)

The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940)  (Grade:C-)

Day of Wrath (1982) - Jonathan Valin (-)  (Grade:A)

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

Dead Irish: a Dismas Hardy novel (1989) - John T. Lescroart (-)  (Grade:B+)

A Deadly Exchange (2001) - Sheryl Jane Stafford (-)  (Grade:B-)

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997) - Richard Rhodes (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1934-)  (Grade:C+)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006)  (Grade:A-)

Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir (1949) - John Gunther (1901-1970)  (Grade:A-)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (1873-1947)  (Grade:C)

Death in a Strange Country : a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (1993) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942-)  (Grade:A-)

A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955)  (Grade:C)

Death in Venice (1913) - Thomas Mann (1875-1955)  (Grade:C)

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

The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989) - Bartholomew Gill (1943-)  (Grade:B+)

Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-)  (Grade:A-)

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

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

Death of a Salesman (1949) - Arthur Miller (1915-)  (Grade:F)

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

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

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

The Death of Outrage : Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) - William J. Bennett (1943-)  (Grade:A-)

The Death of Satan : How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil (1995) - Andrew Delbanco (-)  (Grade:C)

The Death of the Heart (1938) - Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)  (Grade:D)

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization () - Patrick J. Buchanan (1938-)  (Grade:A-)

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

The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - John Lanchester (1962-)  (Grade:A-)

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

The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) - Jacquelyn Mitchard (-)  (Grade:C-)

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

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

Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (1923-1997)  (Grade:A+)

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

Democracy in America (2000) - Harvey C. Mansfield (1932-)  (Grade:A+)

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

Democracy: The Two Majorities (1963) - Willmoore Kendall (1909-1967)  (Grade:A)

The Demolished Man (1953) - Alfred Bester (1913-1987)  (Grade:A-)

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

The Denial of Death (1973) - Ernest Becker (1924-1974)  (Grade:D+)

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

Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam (2001) - Jack Todd (1946-)  (Grade:F)

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

The Destructors (1954) - Graham Greene (1904-1991)  (Grade:A)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) - Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)  (Grade:A)

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

The Devil's Cure (2000) - Kenneth Oppel (1967-)  (Grade:B-)

The Devil's Dictionary [The Cynic's Word Book] (1911) - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)  (Grade:A)

The Devil's Halo (2005) - Chris Fox (-)  (Grade:A)

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) - Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)  (Grade:B+)

The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (1929-1945)  (Grade:A)

Diaspora (1997) - Greg Egan (1961-)  (Grade:C)

Dictatorships and Double Standards : Rationalism and Reason in Politics (1982) - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1926-)  (Grade:A)

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926 (Second Edition, 1965)) - H. W. Fowler (1858-1933)  (Grade:A+)

Dissolution (2004) - C. J. Sansom (-)  (Grade:A)

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

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir Of Life In Death (1997) - Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997)  (Grade:A+)

Doctor Janeway's Plague (2000) - John Farrell (-)  (Grade:B-)

Doctor Zhivago (1956) - Boris Pasternak (02/10/1890-1960)  (Grade:B-)

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

The Dog of the South (1979) - Charles Portis (1933-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Dom Casmurro (1899) - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908)  (Grade:A+)

Dominic (1972) - William Steig (1907-)  (Grade:A+)

Don Quijote (Part 1--1605, Part 2--1615) (1615) - Miquel de Cervantes (1547-1616)  (Grade:A+)

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

Double Indemnity (1935) - James M Cain (7/1/1892-10/27/77)  (Grade:A+)

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994) - John Ralston Saul (1947-)  (Grade:B+)

Dr. No (1958) - Ian Fleming (1908-1964)  (Grade:B+)

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