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A Republic, If You Can Keep It (2019) - Neil McGill Gorsuch (08/29/1967 -)  (Grade: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 (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A+)

On the Abolition of All Political Parties (1943) - Simone Weil (02/03/1909 -08/24/1943)  (Grade:F)

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990) - Laurence H. Tribe (10/10/1941 -)  (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)

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:D)

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

Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998) - Richard Rorty (10/04/1931 -6/08/2007)  (Grade:D+)

Across the Red Line : Stories from the Surgical Life (2002) - Richard C. Karl (1945-)  (Grade:A-)

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005) - Stephen Breyer (08/15/1938 -)  (Grade:C)

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+)

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness (2014) - Russ Roberts (09/19/1954 -)  (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 (11/30/1835 -4/21/1910)  (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 (3/28/1940 -1/07/2023)  (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 (8/27/1899 -4/02/1966)  (Grade:A)

After Virtue : A Study in Moral Theory (1981) - Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (01/12/1929-)  (Grade:A)

After the Banquet [Utage no Ato] (1960) - Yukio Mishima (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:B)

Against the Idols of the Age () - David Charles Stove (9/15/1927 -6/02/1994)  (Grade:A+)

The Age of Innocence (1920) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862 -8/11/1937)  (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 (2/22/1938 -)  (Grade:C+)

Albert Camus & Jean Grenier: Correspondence 1932-1960 (1981) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:B)

Aleck Maury, Sportsman (1934) - Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895-1981)  (Grade:A)

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (2007) - Norman F. Cantor (11/19/1929-09/18/2004)  (Grade:B-)

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (2007) - Norman F. Cantor (11/19/1929-09/18/2004)  (Grade:B-)

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 (8/02/1955 -)  (Grade:C+)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898 -9/25/1970)  (Grade:C)

All Soul's Rising (1995) - Madison Smartt Bell (-)  (Grade:F)

All the King's Men (1946) - Robert Penn Warren (4/24/1905 -9/15/1989) (Grade:A+)

All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (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 (11/14/1947 -2/15/2022)  (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)

Alumnus Football (poem) (1924) - Grantland Rice (11/01/1880-7/13/1954)  (Grade:A)

Amazing Grace : A Vocabulary of Faith (1998) - Kathleen Norris (1947-)  (Grade:A)

The Ambassadors (1903) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:D)

Ambling Into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002) - Frank Bruni (-)  (Grade:A-)

Ambush at Fort Bragg (1997) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018)  (Grade:A)

America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America's Greatest Days Are Yet to Come (2013) - James C. Bennett (1948-)  (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 (10/19/1918 -4/29/1994)  (Grade:A)

The American Language (1936) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880 -1/29/1956)  (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 (3/19/1933 -5/22/2018)  (Grade:B+)

The American Political Tradition: and the Men Who Made It (1948) - Richard Hofstadter (08/16/1916 -10/24/1970)  (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 (11/14/1947 -2/15/2022)  (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 American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920) - George Jean Nathan (2/14/1882 -4/08/1958) - H. L. Mencken (9/12/1880 -1/29/1956)  (Grade:B+)

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) - Gordon S. Wood (11/27/1933 -)  (Grade:A)

America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (2022) - Claire Rydell Arcenas (1988-)  (Grade:A)

Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey (1981) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932 -8/11/2018)  (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)

Amsterdam (1998) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (Grade:C)

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 -1/21/1949) (Grade:A+)

Anna Karenina (1875-77) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828 -11/20/1910)  (Grade:A+)

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

Southern Cross: Annuit Coeptis (CSA Confederate States of America, Volume 1) (2013) - Dorvall (-)  (Grade:B)

Anonymous Lawyer : A Novel (2006) - Jeremy Blachman ( -)  (Grade:A+)

Another November (1986) - Roger Grenier (1919-)  (Grade:C)

Another Man’s Moccasins (2008) - Craig Johnson (01/16/1961 -)  (Grade:A)

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 (08/16/1916 -10/24/1970)  (Grade:D)

Ape and Essence (1948) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894 -11/22/1963)  (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 (1/31/1905 -4/11/1970)  (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 (1998) - Robert Harris (3/07/1957 -)  (Grade:A-)

Archangel (1995) - Paul Watkins (1964-)  (Grade:B-)

Archangel (1982) - Gerald Seymour (-)  (Grade:A+)

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+)

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

As I Lay Dying (1930) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (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: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America (2011) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-)  (Grade:C)

Ashes of the Earth (2003) - Niall Ferguson (-)  (Grade:B)

Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People (2000) - Helen Zia (-)  (Grade:C)

Aspects of the Novel (1927) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879 -6/07/1970)  (Grade:A-)

The Assault [El Asalto] (1990) - Reinaldo Arenas (7/16/1943 -12/07/1990)  (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 (1959 -)  (Grade:B+)

At Drake's Command: The adventures of Peregrine James during the second circumnavigation of the world (Volume 1) (2012) - David Wesley Hill (1956-)  (Grade:A)

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

The Athenian Murders (2000) - Jose Carlos Somoza (11/13/1959-)  (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 Idea (1924) - Louis Henry Sullivan (9/03/1856-4/14/1924)  (Grade:B)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) - James Weldon Johnson (6/17/1871 -6/26/1938)  (Grade:B+)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (5/19/1925 -2/21/1965)  (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+)