Books Reviewed: Sorted by title
(H)
H Is for Hawk (2016) - Helen MacDonald (1970
-) (Grade:C+)
H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914
-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+)
Hadji Murad (1911) - Leo Tolstoy (9/09/1828
-11/20/1910) (Grade:A-)
Hadrian the Seventh (1904) - Frederick Rolfe (07/22/1860-10/25/1913) (Grade:C)
Hadrian's Wall (2004) - William Dietrich (09/29/1951-) (Grade:C)
Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder (1997) - Melanie Thernstrom (-) (Grade:C)
A Handful of Dust (1934) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903
-04/10/1966) (Grade:B)
The Handmaid's Tale (1986) - Margaret Atwood (11/18/1939
-) (Grade:C+)
Hardy Boys Mystery Series: The Crisscross Shadow (1953) - Franklin W. Dixon (
-) (Grade:B)
Hare Sitting Up (Inspector Appleby Mystery) (1959) - Michael Innes (09/30/1906-11/12/1994) (Grade:B+)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947
-) (Grade:B)
Harriet the Spy (1964) - Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974) (Grade:D)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965
-) (Grade:A+)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965
-) (Grade:A)
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2012) - Joel Dicker (06/16/1985-) (Grade:C)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) - J. K. Rowling (7/31/1965
-) (Grade:A)
Hart's War (199) - John Katzenbach (-) (Grade:B)
Haunting Olivia (story) (2005) - Karen Russell (7/10/1981-) (Grade:A+)
Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (1999) - Mick Foley (1965-) (Grade:C)
"He and She" and Other Stories 1880-82 : The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (Vol 1) (2000) - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) (Grade:C)
He Died With His Eyes Open (1984) - Derek Raymond (06/12/1931-07/30/1994) (Grade:A)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - Carson McCullers (2/19/1917
-9/29/1967) (Grade:D)
Heart of Darkness (1902) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857
-8/03/1924) (Grade:A)
Heart of the Assassin (2009) - Robert Ferrigno (
-) (Grade:A+)
The Heart of the Matter (1948) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904
-4/03/1991) (Grade:A)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : Based on a True Story (2000) - Dave Eggers (03/12/1970
-) (Grade:C-)
Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1983) - Barbara Ehrenreich (8/26/1941
-9/01/2022) (Grade:D)
Heat and Dust (1975) - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1923-) (Grade:C)
The Heat's On (aka : Come Back Charleston Blue) (1961) - Chester Himes (7/29/1909
-11/12/1984) (Grade:A)
The Heavenly World Series (2002) - Frank O'Rourke (1916-1989) (Grade:A+)
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1951) - Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) (Grade:A+)
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003) - James A. Morone (-) (Grade:C-)
Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915
-04/05/2005) (Grade:D)
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (2010) - Michael Korda (10/08/1933
-) (Grade:A-)
The Hidden Assassins (2006) - Robert Wilson (1957-) (Grade:C)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Case Against Bill Clinton (1998) - Ann H. Coulter (12/08/1961-) (Grade:A-)
High Fidelity (1995) - Nick Hornby (04/17/1957
-) (Grade:A-)
A High Wind in Jamaica: The Innocent Voyage (1929) - Richard Hughes (1900-1976) (Grade:C)
Hillbilly Elegy (2016) - J. D. Vance (08/02/1984
-) (Grade:B)
Hippo Eats Dwarf : A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (2006) - Alex Boese (-) (Grade:B+)
Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914
-3/24/1993) (Grade:B)
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) (2006) - Naomi Novik (1973-) (Grade:A+)
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine (2023) - S. C. Gwynne (1953-) (Grade:A)
A History of Britain, Volume II : The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) - Simon Schama (1945-) (Grade:B+)
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742) - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) (Grade:B+)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples () - Winston S. Churchill (11/30/1874
-1/24/1965) (Grade:A+)
Hitler Stopped by Franco (2001) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927
-04/04/2018) (Grade:A)
Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996) - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (-) (Grade:A)
Holes (1997) - Louis Sachar (1954
-) (Grade:C-)
The Hollow Men (1927) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888
-1/04/1965) (Grade:B+)
Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (1998) - Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (-) (Grade:C)
The Holy Land (2003) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952
-) (Grade:B+)
Homage to Catalonia (1938) - George Orwell (06/25/1903
-1/21/1949) (Grade:A)
Hombre (1961) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925
-08/20/2013) (Grade:A+)
Home Field: Nine Writers at Bat (1997) - John Douglas Marshall (-) (Grade:B)
Home Truths: A Novella (1999) - David Lodge (01/28/1935-) (Grade:B)
Homeless and At Home in America : Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place (2007) - Peter Augustine Lawler (07/30/1951
-05/23/2017) (Grade:A)
The Homeschooling Revolution (2000) - Isabel Lyman (-) (Grade:B+)
Hondo (1953) - Louis L'Amour (3/22/1908
-6/10/1988) (Grade:A-)
Honor Thy Father (1971) - Gay Talese (1932
-) (Grade:A)
Hooking Up (2000) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931
-5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)
Hoopla (1983) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948
-) (Grade:B+)
Hopeful Monsters (1990) - Nicholas Mosley (1923-) (Grade:A)
The Horses Mouth (1944) - Joyce Cary (1888-1957) (Grade:D)
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8) () - Lemony Snicket (-) (Grade:A)
The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (1992) - Pete Earley (09/05/1951-) (Grade:A)
Hotel Du Lac (1984) - Anita Brookner (7/16/1928
-3/10/2016) (Grade:C+)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/22/1859
-7/07/1930) (Grade:A+)
The Hours (1998) - Michael Cunningham (1952-) (Grade:F)
House (1985) - Tracy Kidder (1945-) (Grade:B)
A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) - V.S. Naipaul (8/17/1932
-8/11/2018) (Grade:B-)
The House of Daniel: A novel of miracles, magic, and minor league ball (2016) - Harry Turtledove (06/14/1949-) (Grade:A-)
The House of Gentle Men (2000) - Kathy Hepinstall (-) (Grade:A)
House of Leaves (2000) - Mark Z. Danielewski (03/05/1966-) (Grade:B)
The House of Mirth (1905) - Edith Wharton (1/24/1862
-8/11/1937) (Grade:C+)
House of Sand and Fog (1999) - Andre Dubus III (9/11/1959
-) (Grade:A-)
House of Splendid Isolation (1994) - Edna O'Brien (12/15/1930
-7/27/2024) (Grade:C)
The House Without a Key (1925) - Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) (Grade:B)
How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2001) - Robert Alan Dahl (1915-) (Grade:C-)
How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983) (Grade:A+)
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000) - Harry Stein (11/25/1948
-) (Grade:A-)
How Late It Was, How Late (1994) - James Kelman (1946-) (Grade:B)
How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997) - Alain de Botton (1969-) (Grade:B+)
How Race Is Lived in America : Pulling Together, Pulling Apart (2001) - Correspondents of The New York Times (-) (Grade:D+)
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969
-) (Grade:A)
How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976) - Francis August Schaeffer (01/30/1912-1984) (Grade:A-)
How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (2004) - Franklin Foer (-) (Grade:B)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) - Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) (Grade:A-)
How the Russians Invented Baseball : And Other Essays of Enlightenment (1989) - John Leo (-) (Grade:B)
How the West Won : The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity (2014) - Rodney Stark (07/08/1934
-07/21/22) (Grade:A+)
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (44 BC) - Philip Freeman (1961
-) - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC
-12/07/43 BC) (Grade:A)
How to Hack a Party Line: the Democrats and Silicon Valley (2001) - Sara Miles (-) (Grade:C+)
How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (2008) - Robert Zubrin (4/09/1952
-) (Grade:B+)
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006) - Bjorn Lomborg (01/06/1965-) (Grade:C+)
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians [Commentariolum Petitionis] (2012) - Quintus Tullius Cicero (102 BC
-43 BC) (Grade:A-)
Howards End (1910) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879
-6/07/1970) (Grade:D)
How Democracies Die (2018) - Steven Levitsky (01/17/1968-) (Grade:C)
Hunger (1890) - Knut Hamsun (1859
-1952) (Grade:C)
The Hunger Games (2008) - Suzanne Collins (1963?
-) (Grade:A+)
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey (1999) - Linda Greenlaw (-) (Grade:C)
The Hunters (1956) - James Salter (6/10/1925
-06/19/2015) (Grade:A)
Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina (2007) - Neal Thompson (1965-) (Grade:A)
The Husband (2006) - Dean R. Koontz (07/09/1945
-) (Grade:A)
Hyde & Shriek (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, #6) (2006) - Franklin W. Dixon (
-) (Grade:B+)
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