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Everyman's Poetry : R. S. Thomas (1996) - Ronald Stuart Thomas (03/29/1913-09/25/2000)  (Grade:A+)

Rabbit, Run (1960) - John Updike (March 18, 1932 -01/27/2009)  (Grade:C)

Race Matters (1993) - Cornel West (06/02/1953 -)  (Grade:F)

The Radetzky March (1932) - Joseph Roth (9/02/1894 -5/27/1939) (Grade:A+)

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1971) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+)

Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1997) - David Horowitz (1939 -)  (Grade:C)

The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991) - Gordon S. Wood (11/27/1933 -)  (Grade:A)

The Rage and The Pride (2002) - Oriana Fallaci (06/19/1930-)  (Grade:C+)

The Rage of Hercules (2001) - Andre Comte-Sponville (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Ragtime (1975) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-)  (Grade:A)

The Rainbow (1915) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930)  (Grade:F)

The Ramayana, as told by Aubrey Menen (1954) - Aubrey Menen (04/22/1912-02/13/1989)  (Grade:B-)

Ransom (1985) - Jay McInerney (1955-)  (Grade:B-)

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998) - Iris Chang (-)  (Grade:A)

The Raphael Affair (1992) - Iain Pears (1955-)  (Grade:B+)

The Rapture of Canaan (1995) - Sheri Reynolds (-)  (Grade:D)

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) - Samuel Johnson (09/18/1709 -12/13/1784)  (Grade:A)

The Rat Patrol (1966) - Norman A. Daniels (06/03/1905-07/19/1995)  (Grade:B+)

Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962) - Michael Oakeshott (12/11/1901 -12/19/1990)  (Grade:A)

Ravelstein (2000) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915 -04/05/2005)  (Grade:C)

The Reader (1999) - Bernhard Schlink (1944-)  (Grade:F)

Reading The Water (1997) - Charles Harper Webb (-)  (Grade:A)

Reality (2003) - Peter Kingsley (-)  (Grade:C)

The Reapers Are the Angels (2010) - Alden Bell (-)  (Grade:A)

Rebel-in-Chief: How George W. Bush Is Redefining the Conservative Movement and Transforming America (2006) - Fred Barnes (-)  (Grade:A)

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) - Stephen Crane (11/01/1871 -6/05/1900)  (Grade:B+)

Red Dragon (1981) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940 -)  (Grade:A)

Red Harvest (1929) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961)  (Grade:A)

The Red House Mystery (1922) - A.A. Milne (1882-1956)  (Grade:C+)

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (2007) - Matthew Brzezinski (-)  (Grade:B+)

Red Pill (2020) - Hari Kunzru (1969 -)  (Grade:C)

Red Sky at Morning (1968) - Richard Bradford (1932-)  (Grade:A)

Red Smith on Baseball (2000) - Red Smith (9/25/1905 -1/15.1982) (Grade:A+)

Red to Black (2008) - Alex Dryden (-) (Grade:B+)

Redefining Sovereignty (March 2006) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-) (Grade:A+)

Red Plenty (2010) - Francis Spufford (1963 -)  (Grade:A+)

Redwall (1986) - Brian Jacques (1939-)  (Grade:A)

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

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) - Edmund Burke (1/12/1729 -7/09/1797)  (Grade:A+)

The Remains of the Day (1988) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -)  (Grade:B+)

Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built" (2008) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:A)

Renewing American Compassion (1996) - Marvin Olasky (6/12/1950 -)  (Grade:B-)

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (1967) - Leonard C. Lewin (1916-1998)  (Grade:C)

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

Republicanism (1999) - Maurizio Viroli ( -)  (Grade:A-)

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

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

Resurrection Men (2003) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)  (Grade:A)

The Return of the Soldier (1918) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A+)

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

The Revolt of the Masses (1930) - Jose Ortega y Gasset (5/09/1883 -10/18/1955)  (Grade:A+)

Revolutionary Road (1961) - Richard Yates (02/03/1926-11/07/1992)  (Grade:A-)

Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (2001) - Daniel Philpott (1967-)  (Grade:A)

Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier (1982) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:A)

The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (1996) - Giles Milton (1/15/1966 -)  (Grade:A)

Ride With the Devil [aka : Woe to Live On] (1987) - Daniel Woodrell (-)  (Grade:B-)

Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) - Zane Grey (1/31/1872 -10/23/1939)  (Grade:A)

The Right and the Power (1977) - Leon Jaworski (-)  (Grade:C)

The Right Darwin?: Evolution, Religion, And the Future of Democracy (2006) - Carson L. Holloway ( -)  (Grade:A)

The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A+)

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse (1991) - Mary Ann Glendon ( -)  (Grade:C)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987) - Paul Kennedy (6/17/1945 -)  (Grade:C+)

Rise of a Dynasty: The ’57 Celtics, the First Banner, and the Dawning of a New America (2010) - Bill Reynolds (1945-)  (Grade:B-)

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) - William Dean Howells (1837-1920)  (Grade:B+)

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939 -)  (Grade:A+)

Rising Sun (1992) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:C)

Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War (2003) - Walter J. Boyne (-)  (Grade:B+)

The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country (1992) - Franklin Burroughs (-)  (Grade:A)

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

A River Runs Through It (1976) - Norman MacLean (1902 -1990)  (Grade:A+)

River Season (There's a River Down in Texas) (2003) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A)

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (1991) - Ben Hamper (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Road (2006) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:A+)

The Road from Coorain (1989) - Jill Ker Conway (1934-)  (Grade:C)

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (1978) - Morgan Scott Peck (05/22/1936-09/25/2005)  (Grade:B+)

The Road to Serfdom (1944) - Friedrich Hayek (5/08/1899 -3/23/1992)  (Grade:A+)

The Road to Wellville (1993) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-)  (Grade:B+)

Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders : A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History (2006) - Rob Neyer (06/22/1966-)  (Grade:B+)

Rock Crystal (1845) - Adalbert Stifter (10/23/1805 -01/28/1868)  (Grade:A+)

Rocket Boys: A Memoir (1998) - Homer H. Hickam, Jr. (1943-)  (Grade:A-)

Rogue Male (1939) - Geoffrey Household (11/30/1900-10/04/1988)  (Grade:A)

Roman Blood (1991) - Steven Saylor (05/23/1956-)  (Grade:A-)

The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (2006) - Harold James (1956-)  (Grade:A)

Ronald Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (1997) - Dinesh D'Souza (1961-)  (Grade:B-)

A Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941)  (Grade:C+)

A Room with a View (1908) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:D)

The Roots of Heaven (1956) - Romain Gary (05/08/1914 -12/02/1980)  (Grade:A+)

Rosa (2005) - Jonathan Rabb (-)  (Grade:B+)

Rose (1996) - Martin Cruz Smith (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Rose of Tibet (1962) - Lionel Davidson (03/31/1922 -10/21/1999)  (Grade:B+)

Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series (2003) - David Pietrusza (-)  (Grade:A)

Roughneck (1954) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)  (Grade:A)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859) - Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)  (Grade:C)

Rules of Civility : The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace () - George Washington (1732-1799)  (Grade:A)

A Rum Affair : A True Story of Botanical Fraud (1999) - Karl Sabbagh (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956) - William Ernest Bowman (09/30/1911-01/01/1985)  (Grade:B+)

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: and Other Observations (1996) - Al Franken (1951-)  (Grade:F)

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture (2005) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)  (Grade:B+)

The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008)  (Grade:B+)

The Russian Revolution () - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-) (Grade:A+)