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Faceless Killers (1991) - Henning Mankell (02/03/1948-)  (Grade:B+)

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:A-)

Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq (2008) - Thomas J. Craughwell (-)  (Grade:C-)

The Faith and the Power : The Inspiring Story of the First Christians & How They Survived the Madness of Rome (2002) - James D. Snyder (-)  (Grade:A)

Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (1999) - Paul C. Vitz (1935-)  (Grade:A)

The Faithful Spy (2006) - Alex Berenson (-) (Grade:A+)

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975) - David Nobbs (03/13/1935-) (Grade:A+)

Falling Angel (1978) - William Hjortsberg (1941-) (Grade:A)

Falls the Shadow (1988) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945 -1/22/2021) (Grade:A+)

A False Spring (1975) - Pat Jordan (04/22/1941 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Family of Pacual Duarte (1942) - Camilo Jose Cela (5/11/1916 -1/17/2002)  (Grade:A-)

Fancies and Goodnights (1951) - John Collier (1901-1980)  (Grade:B+)

The Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (2005) - Fawaz A. Gerges (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

A Farewell to Arms (1929) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:D)

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

Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) - Eric Schlosser (-)  (Grade:B+)

Fat Ollie's Book : A Novel of the 87th Precinct (2002) - Ed McBain (10/15/1926 -07/06/2005)  (Grade:A-)

The Fatal Environment : The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (1985) - Richard Slotkin (-)  (Grade:B-)

Fatal Vision (1983) - Joe McGinniss (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Father of Spin : Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations (1998) - Larry Tye (-)  (Grade:B-)

Fatherland (1992) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957 -) (Grade:A+)

The Fathers (1938) - Allen Tate (11/18/1899 -2/09/1979) (Grade:C+)

Fathers and Sons (1862) - Ivan Turgenev (11/09/1818 -9/03/1883)  (Grade:A+)

Fathers Playing Catch With Sons : Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (1985) - Donald Hall (9/20/1928 -6/23/2018)  (Grade:B+)

The Feast of the Goat (2000) - Mario Vargas Llosa (3/28/1936 -)  (Grade:A-)

Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (2006) - Seth Mnookin (-)  (Grade:A)

Feminist Fantasies (2003) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924-)  (Grade:A+)

Fer-de-Lance: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (1934) - Rex Stout (12/01/1886 -10/27/1975)  (Grade:A)

Fever Pitch (1992) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957 -)  (Grade:B-)

The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria (2001) - Mark Honigsbaum (-)  (Grade:C+)

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

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

The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory (2002) - Derek Leebaert ( -)  (Grade:A-)

Fight Club (1996) - Chuck Palahniuk (02/21/1962 -)  (Grade:F)

Fighting Terrorism : How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists (1995) - Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-)  (Grade:A)

A Fine Balance (1996) - Rohinton Mistry (1952-)  (Grade:A-)

Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science (2001) - Colin Beavan (-)  (Grade:A)

Finnegan's Wake (1939) - James Joyce (2/02/1882 -1/13/1941)  (Grade:F)

The Fire of Invention : Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (1997) - Michael Novak (9/09/1933 -02/17/2017)  (Grade:B+)

The Firm (1991) - John Grisham (02/08/1955-)  (Grade:D)

First Among Sequels (2007) - Jasper Fforde (01/11/1961-)  (Grade:C)

First in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton (1995) - David Maraniss (-)  (Grade:A-)

The First Man (1995) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:A+)

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

The First World War (1998) - John Keegan (-)  (Grade:B+)

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad (2013) - Lesley Hazelton (1945-)  (Grade:B-)

The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors (2002) - Ian Frazier (1951-)  (Grade:B+)

Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History (2009) - Douglas Wilson (06/18/1953-)  (Grade:C+)

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

The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914 -03/18/1986)  (Grade:A+)

The Flanders Panel (1994) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-)  (Grade:B+)

Flesh Wound : A John Marshall Tanner Mystery (1996) - Stephen Greenleaf (1942-)  (Grade:B+)

The Flight of the Phoenix (1964) - Elleston Trevor (1920-1995)  (Grade:B+)

Flowers for Algernon (1966) - Daniel Keyes (-)  (Grade:A+)

Flushed : How the Plumber Saved Civilization (2006) - W. Hodding Carter (1966-)  (Grade:A)

Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11 (2004) - Michael A. Smerconish (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Fontamara (1933) - Ignazio Silone (5/01/1900 -8/22/1978)  (Grade:A+)

The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the Nationalal Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food (2009) - Mark Kurlansky (12/07/1948-)  (Grade:C)

Food's Frontier : The Next Green Revolution (2000) - Richard Manning (-)  (Grade:B+)

Foolhardy Masonry (June 2005) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F)

Fools' Names, Fools' Faces (1996) - Andrew Ferguson (6/28/1956 -)  (Grade:A)

Football Physics: The Science of the Game (2004) - Timothy James Gay (03/23/1953-)  (Grade:B+)

For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (1999) - Jedediah Purdy (1974-)  (Grade:D)

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

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999) - Nathan Englander (-)  (Grade:C)

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1996) - Roger Shattuck (08/20/1923-12/08/2005)  (Grade:A-)

Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (1999) - Wesley J. Smith (-)  (Grade:A)

A Foreign Policy for Americans (1951) - Robert Alphonso Taft (09/08/1889 -07/31/1953)  (Grade:A)

Forever Flowing (1970) - Vasily Grossman (11/29/1905 -9/14.1964)  (Grade:A+)

The Forever War (1943) - Joe Haldeman (-)  (Grade:A-)

Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet (1991) - Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1945-1994)  (Grade:B+)

The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953) - Isaac Asimov (1/02/1920 -4/06/1992)  (Grade:A-)

The Founding Fish (2002) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A)

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Shelley (8/30/1797 -2/01/1851) (Grade:A+)

Franny and Zooey (1961) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010)  (Grade:A+)

Freak (1983) - Michael Collins (1924-)  (Grade:B+)

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) - Stephen J. Dubner (-)  (Grade:A-)

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

A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy (2003) - James MacDonald (-)  (Grade:B+)

Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) (1999) - David M. Kennedy (-)  (Grade:A)

The French Betrayal of America (2004) - Kenneth R. Timmerman (11/04/1953-)  (Grade:A)

Fresh Lies (1994) - James Lileks (-)  (Grade:A)

Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990https://intranet.kingarthurflour.com/home.php) - H. G. Bissinger (-) (Grade:A+)

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (1964) - Harry Kemelman (11/24/1908 -12/15/1996) (Grade:A+)

Friday's Child (1944) - Georgette Heyer (08/16/1902 -07/04/1974)  (Grade:A+)

The Friendly Persuasion (1945) - Jessamyn West (1902-1984)  (Grade:B+)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971) - George V. Higgins (11/13/1939-11/06/1999)  (Grade:A)

From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)

From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (Oxford History of the United States) (2008) - George C. Herring (-) (Grade:B+)

From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977)  (Grade:A+)

From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist (1969) - John K. Terres (-)  (Grade:B+)

Fup (1983) - Jim Dodge (-)  (Grade:A-)

Further Adventures (1993) - Jon Stephen Fink (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) - Virginia Postrel (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003) - Fareed Zakaria (-)  (Grade:A)