Books Reviewed: Sorted by title
(W)
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943-) (Grade:B+)
Waiting (1999) - Ha Jin (1956-) (Grade:A-)
Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (Grade:F)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) - J. M. Coetzee (1940-) (Grade:B-)
Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (-) (Grade:B+)
Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America (2009) - James McCommons (-) (Grade:B+)
Waking Lazarus (2006) - T. L. Hines (1966-) (Grade:A-)
A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) - Nelson Algren (1909-1981) (Grade:A)
The Wall: A Thriller (2006) - Jeff Long (-) (Grade:B+)
Wall of Glass : A Joshua Croft Mystery (1987) - Walter Satterthwait (-) (Grade:B+)
The Walls of Jericho (1997) - Jon Land (-) (Grade:C+)
The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912) - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) (Grade:A)
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (1912-1982) (Grade:D)
War and the Liberal Conscience (Trevelyan Lectures) (1978) - Michael Eliot Howard (11/29/1922-) (Grade:A)
The War in 2020 (1991) - Ralph Peters (1952-) (Grade:C+)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - Chris Hedges (-) (Grade:C)
The War of the Rats (1999) - David L. Robbins (-) (Grade:C)
 The Warlord's Son (2004) - Dan Fesperman (-) (Grade:A+)
Warning Signs (2003) - Alan Caruba (10/09/1937-) (Grade:B+)
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (2002) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952-) (Grade:C-)
Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) - David Hackett Fischer (1935-) (Grade:A+)
The Waste Land: An Entertainment (2010) - Simon Acland (-) (Grade:A)
The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (2007) - Robert Crais (1954-) (Grade:B+)
The Wave (2006) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952-) (Grade:C)
Wave of Terror (1972) - Theodore Odrach (02/13/1912-10/07/1964) (Grade:A+)
The Way of All Flesh (1903) - Samuel Butler (1835-1902) (Grade:D)
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000) - Frances Fitzgerald (-) (Grade:D+)
The Way Through the Woods: An Inspector Morse Mystery (1992) - Colin Dexter (1930-) (Grade:A+)
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1966) - Phillip K. Dick (1929-1982) (Grade:A)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) - Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) (Grade:A+)
We Interrupt This Broadcast : The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Virginia Tech Shooting (2008) - Joe Garner (-) (Grade:B-)
A Wedding Gift: And Other Angling Stories (1992) - John Taintor Foote (1881-1950) (Grade:A)
The Weight of Water (1996) - Anita Shreve (-) (Grade:C+)
Welcome to Hard Times (1960) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-) (Grade:C+)
Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution (2006) - Brian Mann (1965-) (Grade:B-)
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2002) - Tamim Ansary (1948-) (Grade:B)
West With the Night (1941) - Beryl Markham (1902-1986) (Grade:A+)
Wet Work (1990) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:C)
What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) - Peter Hansard (-) - Burton Silver (-) (Grade:B+)
What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990) - Peggy Noonan (1950-) (Grade:A-)
What it Takes : The Way to the White House (1992) - Richard Ben Cramer (-) (Grade:A+)
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-) (Grade:C)
What the Anti-Federalists Were For (1981) - Herbert J. Storing (1928-1977) (Grade:A)
What We Can't Not Know: A Guide (2003) - J. Budziszewski (1952-) (Grade:A)
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002) - Bernard Lewis (-) (Grade:A)
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) - Thomas Frank (1965-) (Grade:D)
Whatever [L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte] (1994) - Michel Houellebecq (1958-) (Grade:C)
When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Martha Henissart (1929-) - Mary J. Latsis (07/12/1927-10/29/1997) (Grade:A-)
When Last Seen Alive: An Aaron Gunner Mystery (1997) - Gar Anthony Haywood (-) (Grade:C)
When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon (2000) - Frances Park (1955-) (Grade:C-)
When the Whistle Blows (2009) - Fran Cannon Slayton (-) (Grade:A+)
Where Men Hide (2006) - James B. Twitchell (-) (Grade:B)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) (Grade:A-)
Where the Stress Falls (2001) - Susan Sontag (1933-) (Grade:T (for toilet paper))
The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) - Herbert Butterfield (10/07/1900-1979) (Grade:A)
While I Was Gone (1999) - Sue Miller (-) (Grade:D)
The Whipping Boy (1986) - Sid Fleischman (1920-) (Grade:B)
The White Album (1979) - Joan Didion (1934-) (Grade:A+)
White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (-) (Grade:C)
White Oleander (1999) - Janet Fitch (-) (Grade:C+)
White Shaka Boy (2009) - Alan Brody (-) (Grade:B)
The White Tiger (2008) - Aravind Adiga (10/23/1974-) (Grade:C)
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) - Sam Tanenhaus (-) (Grade:A)
Who Owns History? : Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002) - Eric Foner (1943-) (Grade:F)
Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994) - Christina Hoff Sommers (-) (Grade:B-)
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore (-) (Grade:B+)
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (2005) - Marianne J. Legato (1935-) (Grade:B+)
Why Orwell Matters (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (1949-) (Grade:B+)
Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-) (Grade:B+)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (1890-1979) (Grade:F-)
Wieland; or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) - Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) (Grade:A)
Wild Nights : Nature Returns to the City (2001) - Anne Matthews (1957-) (Grade:B)
Wild Thorns (Al-Subar) (1976) - Sahar Khalifeh (1941-) (Grade:B)
Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives (2002) - John A. Murley (-) (Grade:A)
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) (Grade:C-)
The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995) - Li-Young Lee (1957-) (Grade:D-)
The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (1843-1916) (Grade:D)
Winnetou (1893) - Karl May (1842-1912) (Grade:B+)
The Winter King: Warlord Chronicles, vol. 1 (1996) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-) (Grade:B)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Grade:B)
Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1968) (Grade:A+)
The Witchfinder: an Amos Walker Mystery (1998) - Loren D. Estleman (1952-) (Grade:A+)
With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy () - Florence King (01/05/1936-) (Grade:B+)
With Fire and Sword (1883) - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) (Grade:A+)
Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun (1971) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-) (Grade:B)
Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam (2006) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-) (Grade:A+)
Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) (Grade:A+)
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999) - George Weigel (-) (Grade:A+)
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001) - David Edmonds (-) (Grade:C+)
Woman in the Dark : A Novel of Dangerous Romance (1933) - Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) (Grade:C)
Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) (Grade:F)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) (Grade:A+)
The Wood Beyond the World (1895) - William Morris (1834-1896) (Grade:B+)
Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001) - Stefan Fatsis (-) (Grade:B+)
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-) (Grade:B+)
Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History (2000) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952-) (Grade:F)
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) - Studs Terkel (1912-) (Grade:C-)
The World and the West (1953) - Arnold J. Toynbee (04/14/1889-10/22/1975) (Grade:A+)
The World Turned Right Side Up : A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America (1996) - Godfrey Hodgson (-) (Grade:C)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) - Max Michael Brooks (05/22/1972-) (Grade:A+)
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-) (Grade:A+)
Wry Martinis (1997) - Christopher Buckley (1952-) (Grade:A-)
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