Books Reviewed: Sorted by title
(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)
 AAA (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-) (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 Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom And Wit in the Wild West (2006) - Steve Sheinkin (-) (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 (September 1943-) (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 (07/20/1933-) (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-)
American Subversive (2010) - David Goodwillie (03/25/1972-) (Grade:A+)
An American Tragedy (1925) - Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) (Grade:F)
The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (2008) - Eugene Jarecki (-) (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)
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) (1998) - Margaret Peterson Haddix (04/09/1964-) (Grade:A-)
Among the Thugs : The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence (1991) - Bill Buford (1954-) (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 (02/02/1905-03/06/1982) (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-)
Ashes of the Earth (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-) (Grade:B)
Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America (2011) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-) (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+)
Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010) - John Mueller (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+)
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