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Grade:  B+ (Sorted by Author's last name)

The Brave Cowboy: an Old Tale in a New Time (1956) - Edward Abbey (1/29/1927 -3/14/1989)  (Grade:B+)

Ezra Pound (Literary Lives) (1981) - Peter Ackroyd (1949-)  (Grade:B+)

The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838 -1918)  (Grade:B+)

The Zig-Zag Man: A Stone Angel Novel (1991) - Marvin H. Albert (01/22/1924-03/24/1996)  (Grade:B+)

Privileged Information (1984) - Tom Alibrandi (-)  (Grade:B+)

Journey into Fear (1940) - Eric Ambler (06/28/1909 -10/22/1998)  (Grade:B+)

Ephemera (2009) - Jeffery M. Anderson (-)  (Grade:B+)

Thieves Like Us (1937) - Edward Anderson (1905-1969)  (Grade:B+)

Privileged Information (1984) - Frank H. Armani (-)  (Grade:B+)

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism (2003) - Catalin Avramescu (07/12/1967-)  (Grade:B+)

Physics and Politics: or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society (1863) - Walter Bagehot (02/03/1826 -03/24/1877)  (Grade:B+)

Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997) - Kirsten Bakis (-)  (Grade:B+)

Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water (2000) - Philip Ball ( -)  (Grade:B+)

The Wrong Side of Paris [L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine] (1840-48) - Honore de Balzac (05/20/1799 -08/18/1850)  (Grade:B+)

The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again (1992) - Robert L. Bartley (-)  (Grade:B+)

Moving Mars (1993) - Greg Bear (1951-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Request for a More Complete Obituary (story) (2024) - Viken Berberian (1967-)  (Grade:B+)

The Midnight House (2010) - Alex Berenson (-)  (Grade:B+)

Terror and Liberalism (2003) - Paul Berman ( -)  (Grade:B+)

Taking Charge : The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Ugliest Pilgrim (story) (1969) - Doris Betts (06/04/1932-04/21/2012)  (Grade:B+)

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Sandra Blakeslee (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague () - Chayim Bloch (06/26/1881 -01/23/1973)  (Grade:B+)

Hippo Eats Dwarf : A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (2006) - Alex Boese (-)  (Grade:B+)

One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen (essay) (2000) - Anthony Bourdain (07/25/1956 -06/18/2018)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

The Pedestrian (1951) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:B+)

The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78 (2008) - Richard Bradley (-)  (Grade:B+)

Eagle In The Snow : A Novel of General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand (1970) - Wallace Breem (05/13/1926-1990)  (Grade:B+)

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) - Bill Bryson (12/08/1951-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (2004) - Alafair S. Burke (-)  (Grade:B+)

Tales from Two Pockets (1932) - Karel Capek (1/09/1890 -12/25/1938)  (Grade:B+)

Warning Signs (2003) - Alan Caruba (10/09/1937-)  (Grade:B+)

A Good Death (essay) (2024) - Neko Case (9/08/1970-)  (Grade:B+)

Wilt : Larger than Life (2004) - Robert Cherry (1943-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

The Big Picture: Essential Business Lessons from the Movie (2010) - Kevin Coupe (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (2007) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Monkey's Raincoat (1988) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Old Limey (2001) - H. W. Crocker III (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1785) - George Cruikshank (09/27/1792-02/01/1878)  (Grade:B+)

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

Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (2001) - Michael D'Antonio (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997) - Alain de Botton (1969-)  (Grade:B+)

A Voyage Around My Room (1795) - Xavier de Maistre (1763-06/12/1852)  (Grade:B+)

The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856) - Alexis De Tocqueville (7/29/1805 -4/16/1859)  (Grade:B+)

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (1968) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:B+)

Out of Africa (1937) - Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)  (Grade:B+)

Hyde & Shriek (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, #6) (2006) - Franklin W. Dixon ( -)  (Grade:B+)

One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (2005) - Bob Joseph Dole (07/22/1923-)  (Grade:B+)

Strip Cuts (2000) - David Drayer (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar () - Paul Laurence Dunbar (6/27/1872 -2/09/1906)  (Grade:B+)

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1972) - Marilyn Durham (1930-)  (Grade:B+)

The Name of the Rose [Il nome della rosa] (1980) - Umberto Eco (1932 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Hollow Men (1927) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:B+)

The Inn at the Edge of the World (1990) - Alice Thomas Ellis (09//09/1932-03/08/2005)  (Grade:B+)

Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001) - Stefan Fatsis (4/01/1963 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Bear (1942) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:B+)

A Rose for Emily (story) (1930) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:B+)

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)  (Grade:B+)

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

Bernice Bobs Her Hair (story) (1920) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:B+)

Madame Bovary (1857) - Gustave Flaubert (12/12/1821 -5/08/1880)  (Grade:B+)

Dr. No (1958) - Ian Fleming (05/28/1908 -8/12/1964)  (Grade:B+)

Pocket Book of Patriotism (2005) - Jonathan Foreman (-)  (Grade:B+)

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide (2016) - Charles Foster (1962 -)  (Grade:B+)

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

In the Woods (2007) - Tana French (-)  (Grade:B+)

Tell Me a Story: Timeless folktales from around the world (2006) - Amy Friedman (-)  (Grade:B+)

A Yankee Century (2002) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:B+)

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2004) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Tehran Conviction (2010) - Tom Gabbay (-)  (Grade:B+)

Neverwhere (1997) - Neil Gaiman (11/10/1960 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Case of the Baited Hook (1940) - Erle Stanley Gardner (07/17/1889 -03/11/1970)  (Grade:B+)

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories : Modern Tales for Our Life & Times (1994) - James Finn Garner (1939-)  (Grade:B+)

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

A Treasury of Victorian Murder, Volume 1 (1987) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992) - Dana Gioia (12/24/1950 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Chinaman (1939) - Friedrich Glauser (02/04/1896-12/08/1938)  (Grade:B+)

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

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943 -)  (Grade:B+)

An Obsession with Anne Frank : Meyer Levin and the Diary (1997) - Lawrence Graver (-)  (Grade:B+)

Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895 -12/07/1985)  (Grade:B+)

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

The End of the Affair (1951) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982) - Martha Grimes (1931-)  (Grade:B+)

The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000) - Stephanie Gutmann (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness (1989) - John Haines (06/29/1924-03/02/2011)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Shadowers (1964) - Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (03/24/1916-11/20/2006)  (Grade:B+)

What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) - Peter Hansard (-)  (Grade:B+)

Black Sunday (1975) - Thomas Harris (04/11/1940 -)  (Grade:B+)

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

Mister Roberts (1946) - Thomas Heggen (-)  (Grade:B+)

Starship Troopers (1959) - Robert A. Heinlein (07/07/1907-1988)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)  (Grade:B+)

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

If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) - Chester Himes (7/29/1909 -11/12/1984)  (Grade:B+)

The Myth of Digital Democracy (2009) - Matthew Hindman (1976-)  (Grade:B+)

Why Orwell Matters (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)  (Grade:B+)

Turtle Diary (1975) - Russell Conwell Hoban (02/04/1925-)  (Grade:B+)

Power Golf (1948) - Ben Hogan (1912 -1997)  (Grade:B+)

Turning the Black Sox White: The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey (2014) - Tim Hornbaker (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

The Kite Runner (2003) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-)  (Grade:B+)

A Shropshire Lad () - A. E. Housman (1859-1936)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights (1968) - Ted Hughes (8/17/1930 -10/28/1998)  (Grade:B+)

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge (2008) - Elizabeth King Humphrey (-)  (Grade:B+)

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge (2008) - Elizabeth King Humphrey (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) - Samuel P. Huntington (04/18/1927 -12/24/2008)  (Grade:B+)

Hare Sitting Up (Inspector Appleby Mystery) (1959) - Michael Innes (09/30/1906-11/12/1994)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Monkey's Paw (1902) - W. W. Jacobs (9/08/1863-9/01/1943)  (Grade:B+)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) - P.D. James (08/03/1920 -11/27/2014)  (Grade:B+)

On My Philosophy () - Karl Jaspers (02/23/1883-02/26/1969)  (Grade:B+)

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

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002) - Ashley Kahn (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Polo Anyone ? : A Nick Polo Mystery (1988) - Jerry Kennealy (-)  (Grade:B+)

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy () - Florence King (01/05/1936 -01/06/2016)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (2001) - G. Bruce Knecht (-)  (Grade:B+)

Quitting the Nairobi Trio (2000) - Jim Knipfel (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896 -07/23/1957)  (Grade:B+)

Evolution : The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles) (2004) - Edward John Larson (-)  (Grade:B+)

Call for the Dead (1961) - John Le Carré (10/19/1931 -12/12/2020 )  (Grade:B+)

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (2005) - Marianne J. Legato (1935-)  (Grade:B+)

Solaris (1961) - Stanislaw Herman Lem (09/21-22/1921 -03/27/2006)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-)  (Grade:B+)

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Julia M. Lewis (-)  (Grade:B+)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian : A Novel (2005) - Marina Lewycka (1946-)  (Grade:B+)

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (2008) - Martin Lindstrom (1970-)  (Grade:B+)

Second Treatise of Government (1689) - John Locke (08/29/1632 -10/28/1704)  (Grade:B+)

The Wall: A Thriller (2006) - Jeff Long (-)  (Grade:B+)

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1987) - Bette Bao Lord (1938-)  (Grade:B+)

At the Mountains of Madness (1931) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (8/20/1890 -3/15/1937)  (Grade:B+)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-)  (Grade:B+)

The Homeschooling Revolution (2000) - Isabel Lyman (-)  (Grade:B+)

Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power (2007) - Marcus Mabry (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra) (1521) - Niccolo Machiavelli (5/03/1469 -6/21/1527)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

The New New Left : How American Politics Works Today (2005) - Steven Malanga (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (2005) - Greil Marcus (1945-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Oxford Murders [Crimenes Imperceptibles] (2005) - Guillermo Martinez (07/29/1962-)  (Grade:B+)

Winnetou (1893) - Karl May (2/25/1842 -3/30/1912)  (Grade:B+)

Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-)  (Grade:B+)

Bomber's Moon (2019) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)  (Grade:B+)

Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America (2009) - James McCommons (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) - Horace McCoy (1897-1955)  (Grade:B+)

Mexican Hat (1997) - Michael McGarrity (-)  (Grade:B+)

Annals of the Former World (1998) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:B+)

Encounters with the Archdruid [Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of his Natural Enemies] (1971) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:B+)

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001) - Walter Russell Mead ( -)  (Grade:B+)

The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880 -1/29/1956)  (Grade:B+)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (1974) - Nicholas Meyer (12/24/45 -)  (Grade:B+)

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore (1/13/1957 -)  (Grade:B+)

Black Robe (1985) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)  (Grade:B+)

The Wood Beyond the World (1895) - William Morris (1834-1896)  (Grade:B+)

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010) - John Mueller (1937-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920) - George Jean Nathan (2/14/1882 -4/08/1958)  (Grade:B+)

The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (2004) - Kevin Nelson (1953-)  (Grade:B+)

The Devil's Star [Marekors] (2003) - Jo Nesbo (03/29/1960 -)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

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

Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille (1949) - Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1905 -10/18/1970)  (Grade:B+)

BUtterfield 8 (1935) - John O'Hara (1/31/1905 -4/11/1970)  (Grade:B+)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966) - Joyce Carol Oates (6/16/1938 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Master Puppeteer (1975) - Katherine Paterson (1932-)  (Grade:B+)

The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) (1959) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 -1968)  (Grade:B+)

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

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+)

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

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

Violent Spring: An Ivan Monk Mystery (1994) - Gary Phillips (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger (2003) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)  (Grade:B+)

Norwood (1966) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:B+)

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

Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War (2000) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Vanished: a Nameless Detective Novel (1973) - Bill Pronzini (04/13/1943-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Godfather (1969) - Mario Gianluigi Puzo (10/15/20 -07/02/99)  (Grade:B+)

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

Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997) - Arnold Rampersad (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Virtue of Selfishness : A New Concept of Egoism (1964) - Ayn Rand (02/02/1905 -03/06/1982)  (Grade:B+)

Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (1987) - Ian Rankin (1960 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1785) - Rudolph Erich Raspe (March 1736-November 1794)  (Grade:B+)

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

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism (1999) - Simon Reeve (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

The Prison of Memory (1999) - Peter Rodgers (-)  (Grade:B+)

American Pastoral (1997) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018)  (Grade:B+)

The Train to Crystal City : : FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (2015) - Jan Jarboe Russell (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Sparrow (1996) - Mary Doria Russell (-)  (Grade:B+)

Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)  (Grade:B+)

Iron and Silk (1987) - James Salter (6/10/1925 -06/19/2015)  (Grade:B+)

At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election (2001) - Bill Sammon (1959 -)  (Grade:B+)

Wall of Glass : A Joshua Croft Mystery (1987) - Walter Satterthwait ( -)  (Grade:B+)

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

A History of Britain, Volume II : The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) - Simon Schama (1945-)  (Grade:B+)

The Great Fat Fraud: Why the "Obesity Epidemic" Isn't, How to Be Totally Healthy without Losing Weight and If You Should Lose Some Pounds, How to Keep Them from Finding You Again (2011) - Mike Schatzki (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1604) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:B+)

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

Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream (1997) - Jim Sleeper (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

The Quest for Cosmic Justice (1999) - Thomas Sowell (6/30/1930 -)  (Grade:B+)

Taking Aim at the President:The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot Gerald Ford (2008) - Geri Spieler (-)  (Grade:B+)

Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (2001) - Andrew Spielman (-)  (Grade:B+)

Hoopla (1983) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948 -)  (Grade:B+)

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999) - Neal Stephenson (1959-)  (Grade:B+)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) - Laurence Sterne (11/24/1713 -03/18/1768)  (Grade:B+)

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis () - Leo Strauss (09/20/1899 -10/18/1973)  (Grade:B+)

Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-)  (Grade:B+)

Thurber on Crime (1991) - James Thurber (1894-1961)  (Grade:B+)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935) - B. Traven (?-1969)  (Grade:B+)

Incident at Twenty-Mile (1998) - Trevanian (6/12/1931 -12/14/2005)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Duke's Children (1879) - Anthony Trollope (04/24/1815 -12/06/1882)  (Grade:B+)

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) - Ivan Turgenev (11/09/1818 -9/03/1883)  (Grade:B+)

Secret Mission to Bangkok (1960) - Francis van Wyck Mason (11/11/1901-08/28/1978)  (Grade:B+)

Conservatism: from John Adams to Churchill (1956) - Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (08/05/1916 -05/19/2006)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce : The 25 Year Landmark Study (2000) - Judith S. Wallerstein (-)  (Grade:B+)

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

Scoop (1937) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:B+)

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

Siberian Light (1997) - Robin White (-)  (Grade:B+)

Kaddish (1998) - Leon Wieseltier (1952 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1969) - Simon Wiesenthal (12/31/1908-9/20/2005)  (Grade:B+)

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

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998) - Simon Winchester (-)  (Grade:B+)

Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000) - Bob Woodward (1943-)  (Grade:B+)

How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (2008) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Holy Land (2003) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952 -)  (Grade:B+)