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Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Caine Mutiny (1951) - Herman Wouk (1915-)  (Grade:D+)

Calculating God (2000) - Robert J. Sawyer (1960-)  (Grade:A-)

The Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A)

Call of the Wild (1903) - Jack London (1876-1916)  (Grade:A)

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

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

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

Canaan (1996) - Geoffrey Hill (1932 -)  (Grade:A-)

Candide (or Optimism) (1759) - François-Marie Arouet (11/21/1694-05/30/1778)  (Grade:A)

Capitalism and Freedom () - Milton Friedman (7/31/1912 -11/16/2002)  (Grade:A+)

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

Captiva: A Doc Ford Novel (1996) - Randy Wayne White (-)  (Grade:A)

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (2004) - Paul Clayton (1948-)  (Grade:B)

Carnegie (2002) - Peter Krass (-)  (Grade:A)

Carry On, Jeeves (1925) - P. G. Wodehouse (10/15/1881 -2/14/1975) (Grade:A+)

Carter Beats the Devil (2001) - Glen David Gold (-) (Grade:C+)

Case Closed () - Gerald Posner (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Case For Democracy : The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) - Natan Sharansky (01/20/1948 -)  (Grade:A)

The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2005) - Michael Mandelbaum (1946-)  (Grade:A-)

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

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

The Case of Madeleine Smith : Treasury of Victorian Murder (2006) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:A)

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

The Case of the Missing Servant : A Vish Puri Mystery (2009) - Tarquin Hall (1969-)  (Grade:A)

Cast in Stone: A Leo Waterman Mystery (1996) - G.M. Ford (-)  (Grade:B-)

Casting the Runes (1911) - M. R. James (1862-1936)  (Grade:A)

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon (1991) - Jim Paul (-)  (Grade:B)

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

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999)  (Grade:A)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger (1/01/1919 -1/27/2010) (Grade:A+)

Catching Fire (2009) - Suzanne Collins (1963? -) (Grade:A+)

Cathedral (1981) - Raymond Carver (05/25/1938 -08/02/1988) (Grade:A)

Cato: A Tragedy (1713) - Joseph Addison (1672-1719)  (Grade:A+)

The Caveman's Valentine (1994) - George Dawes Green (-)  (Grade:B)

The Celebrant (1983) - Eric Rolfe Greenberg (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Celestine Prophecy (1993) - James Redfield ( -)  (Grade:F)

The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It (2002) - John Miller (-)  (Grade:B-)

Centesimus Annus (1991) - Pope John Paul II Pope (1920-4/2/2005)  (Grade:)

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

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) - Roald Dahl (9/13/1916 -11/23/1990)  (Grade:A)

Charlotte's Web (1952) - E. B. White (7/11/1899 -10/01/1985)  (Grade:A+)

Charming Billy (1998) - Alice McDermott (1953-)  (Grade:C-)

Child 44 (2008) - Tom Rob Smith (1979-)  (Grade:A)

A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955) - Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)  (Grade:A)

Child of God (1973) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:C+)

Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) - Robert Coles (-)  (Grade:C)

The Children of Green Knowe (1954) - Lucy Boston (1892-1990)  (Grade:A)

The Children of Men (1992) - P.D. James (08/03/1920 -11/27/2014)  (Grade:A+)

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

A Choice Not an Echo (1964) - Phyllis Schlafly (08/15/1924 -)  (Grade:C+)

The Chosen (1967) - Chaim Potok (1929-)  (Grade:A+)

Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World (2001) - Robert P. Kraynak (1949 -)  (Grade:A)

Christine Falls: A Novel (2006) - John Banville (12/08/1945 -)  (Grade:C)

A Christmas Carol (1843) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A+)

A Christmas Dozen (from the Christmas Story Pastor) (2000) - Steve Burt (-)  (Grade:B-)

Churchill: A Biography (2001) - Roy Jenkins (11/11/1920-2003)  (Grade:B)

The Circle (2013) - Dave Eggers (03/12/1970 -)  (Grade:C)

Citadel on the Mountain : A Memoir of Father and Son (2000) - Richard Wertime (-)  (Grade:C-)

The City in History (1961) - Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)  (Grade:D)

City of Veils (2010) - Zoë Ferraris (-)  (Grade:A)

A Civil Action (1995) - Jonathan Harr (-)  (Grade:C+)

Civil War () - Shelby Foote (11/17/1916 -6/27/2005)  (Grade:A+)

Civil War Stories () - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842 -1914?)  (Grade:B)

Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (1998) - Stephen L. Carter (1954-)  (Grade:B-)

Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History (2004) - Lee Harris (-)  (Grade:A-)

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

Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field (2008) - Chris De Luca (-) - John Hanley (1962-)  (Grade:A+)

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (2017) - Jimmy Soni ( -)  (Grade:A)

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the NineteenthCentury (1999) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)  (Grade:A-)

Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt (2008) - Joyce Tyldesley (-)  (Grade:A-)

A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess (2/25/1917 -11/22/1993)  (Grade:A)

A Close Run Thing : A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 (1999) - Allan Mallinson (-)  (Grade:A)

Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) (1965) - Bohumil Hrabal (03/28/1914-02/03/1997)  (Grade:B)

Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853) - William Wells Brown (1814-1884)  (Grade:B)

The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds (2006) - Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1968-)  (Grade:A+)

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010) - Clay Shirky (1964-)  (Grade:A)

Cold Blood (2009) - James Fleming (1944-)  (Grade:A-)

A Cold Case (2001) - Philip Gourevitch (1961-)  (Grade:A-)

A Cold Day in Paradise (1998) - Steve Hamilton (-)  (Grade:C)

Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (11/04/1950 -)  (Grade:C)

A Collection of Essays (1954) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A+)

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996) - James McBride ( -)  (Grade:B)

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

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

Comes a Horseman (2005) - Robert Liparulo (-)  (Grade:A)

The Comfort of Strangers (1981) - Ian McEwan (06/21/1948 -)  (Grade:C-)

The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952 -)  (Grade:A-)

The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (2008) - Peter Navarro (-)  (Grade:B)

Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988) - Timothy Ferris (-)  (Grade:A)

Coming Up for Air (1939) - George Orwell (06/25/1903 -1/21/1949)  (Grade:A+)

Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson (1985) - Judith Martin (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Communist Manifesto (1848) - Karl Marx (5/05/1818 -3/14/1883) - Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)  (Grade:F)

The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work (1997) - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)  (Grade:C+)

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

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe () - Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809 -10/07/1849)  (Grade:A+)

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

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002) - Atul Gawande (1965-)  (Grade:B)

Compulsion (1956) - Meyer Levin (10/07/1905 -07/09/1981)  (Grade:B-)

The Concept of the Political (1927) - Carl Schmitt (07/11/1888 -04/07/1985)  (Grade:C)

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (1844) - Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5/05/1813 -11/11/1855)  (Grade:C+)

Concrete River (1996) - John Shannon (-)  (Grade:B)

A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) - John Kennedy Toole (12/17/1937 -3/26/1969)  (Grade:B-)

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006)  (Grade:C+)

The Confessor (20014) - Mark Allen Smith ( -)  (Grade:B-)

Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam (2006) - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (09/15/1942-)  (Grade:A)

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

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

The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) - Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)  (Grade:A+)

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

Towards a Conservative Environmentalism (2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F)

The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot (1953) - Russell Kirk (10/19/1918 -4/29/1994)  (Grade:A+)

All Humor is Conservative (06/20/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F)

The Consolation of the Shoes (2007) - Manolo the Shoeblogger (-)  (Grade:A)

A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998) - Noah Hawley (-)  (Grade:A)

Constantine's Sword :The Church and the Jews: A History (2000) - James Carroll (1943-)  (Grade:F)

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990) - Shelby Steele (1946 -)  (Grade:C+)

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) - Don Winslow (1953-)  (Grade:A-)

Cool Hand Luke (1965) - Donn Pearce (-)  (Grade:A+)

Corelli's Mandolin (1994) - Louis De Bernieres (1954 -)  (Grade:C)

The Corrections (2001) - Jonathan Franzen (8/17/1959 -)  (Grade:B)

The Count and the Confession (2002) - John Taylor (1955-)  (Grade:A-)

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) - Sarah Orne Jewett (9/03/1849 -6/24/1909)  (Grade:B)

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

The Crazy Kill (1959) - Chester Himes (7/29/1909 -11/12/1984)  (Grade:B)

Creating Equal : My Fight Against Race Preferences (2000) - Ward Connerly (1939-)  (Grade:A)

Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-)  (Grade:A-)

Crescent Dawn (2010) - Clive Cussler (06/15/1931 -02/24/2020)  (Grade:C)

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821 -02/09/1881)  (Grade:C)

Crime Partners (1971) - Donald Goines (12/15/1936 -10/21/1974)  (Grade:C+)

Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates () - Harry V. Jaffa (10/07/1918 -01/10/2015)  (Grade:A)

The Crisis Years : Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963 () - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:A+)

Crunchy Cons : How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, ... America (or at least the Republican Party) (2006) - Rod Dreher (1967-) (Grade:C)

The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) (2008) - Jonathan Riley-Smith (06/27/1938-)  (Grade:A+)

Cujo (1981) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C-)

The Culture We Deserve (1989) - Jacques Barzun (11/30/1907 -10/25/2012)  (Grade:A)

The Curve (2016) - Jeremy Blachman ( -) - Cameron Stracher (-) (Grade:A+)

The Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -) (Grade:C)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) - Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) (Grade:A+)