Books Reviewed: Sorted by title
(P)
Paco's Story (1986) - Larry Heinemann (1944-) (Grade:C+)
The Painted Bird (1965) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991) (Grade:C)
The Painted Word (1975) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931
-5/14/2018) (Grade:A+)
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (2002) - Mary Anne Weaver (-) (Grade:B-)
Palace of Desire: Book II of the Cairo Trilogy (1957) - Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) (Grade:C+)
The Palace Thief (1994) - Ethan Canin (-) (Grade:F)
The Pale Criminal (1990) - Philip Kerr (1956-) (Grade:A+)
Pale Fire (1962) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899
-7/02/1977) (Grade:B)
A Pale View of Hills (1982) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954
-) (Grade:C)
Panama (1995) - Eric Zencey (-) (Grade:C+)
The Paperhanger (story) (2000) - William Gay (10/27/1941-2/23/2012) (Grade:C)
Parade's End [Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and The Last Post (1928)] (1924-1928) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873
-6/26/1939) (Grade:D+)
Parliament of Whores : A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) - P.J. O'Rourke (11/14/1947
-2/15/2022) (Grade:A)
The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life (2006) - Ramesh Ponnuru (08/16/1974-) (Grade:A)
A Passage to India (1924) - E.M. Forster (1/01/1879
-6/07/1970) (Grade:B)
Past Master (1968) - R. A. Lafferty (11/07/1914
-03/18/2002) (Grade:B)
Patrick O'Brian : A Life Revealed (2000) - Dean King (1962-) (Grade:A)
Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion (2004) - Michael Holley (02/26/70-) (Grade:B-)
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution (1988) - AJ Langguth (-) (Grade:B)
Paul Auster's City of Glass : A Graphic Mystery (1994) - Paul Auster (2/03/1947
-4/30/2024) (Grade:A)
Paul: The Mind of the Apostle (1997) - A. N. Wilson (-) (Grade:B-)
The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1) (2007) - Steven James (-) (Grade:A)
Paydirt: A Wyatt Novel (1992) - Garry Disher (1949-) (Grade:A)
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (2000) - Sally Satel, M. D. (-) (Grade:A-)
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) - David Fromkin (-) (Grade:A+)
The Pedestrian (1951) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920
-06/05/2012) (Grade:B+)
Peer Gynt (1867) - Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) (Grade:C+)
Penance (1995) - David Housewright (-) (Grade:B-)
The Peopling of British North America : An Introduction (1986) - Bernard Bailyn (09/09/1922
-08/07/2020) (Grade:B-)
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) - Sebastian Junger (01/01/1962
-) (Grade:B-)
Perjury () - Allen Weinstein (-) (Grade:A+)
The Person and the Common Good (1946) - Jacques Maritain (11/18/1882
-4/28/1973) (Grade:A)
Personal History (1997) - Katharine Graham (1917-2001) (Grade:C-)
A Personal Matter (1969) - Kenzaburo Oe (1/31/1935
-3/03/2023) (Grade:A+)
Pet Sematary (1983) - Stephen King (09/21/1947
-) (Grade:C+)
Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. (2007) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927
-04/04/2018) (Grade:A+)
PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE: (01/31/2003) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961
-) (Grade:F)
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+)
The Physics of the Buffyverse (2006) - Jennifer Ouellette (-) (Grade:B)
The Picture in the House (1921) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (8/20/1890
-3/15/1937) (Grade:B)
The Picture in the House (1921) - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (8/20/1890
-3/15/1937) (Grade:B)
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (2008) - Mark Harris (11/25/1963
-) (Grade:A-)
Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek (1974) - Annie Dillard (4/30/1945
-) (Grade:A)
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) - John Bunyan (1628-1688) (Grade:A-)
The Pine Barrens (1968) - John McPhee (3/08/1931
-) (Grade:A)
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (2002) - Richard Zacks (1955-) (Grade:A-)
Pitching in a Pinch () - Christy Mathewson (8/12/1880
-10/07/1925) (Grade:A+)
The Pity of War : Explaining World War I (1998) - Niall Ferguson (
-) (Grade:A+)
Planet of the Apes (1963) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) (Grade:A-)
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (2007) - Daniel Klein (-) - Thomas Cathcart (-) (Grade:A+)
Play It As It Lays: A Novel (1970) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934
-12/23/2021) (Grade:B)
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (2014) - Jason L. Riley (-) (Grade:B-)
The Plotters (2010) - Un-Su Kim (1972-) (Grade:B-)
Pocket Book of Patriotism (2005) - Jonathan Foreman (-) (Grade:B+)
Poem of the Cid (1140) - Anonymous (
-) (Grade:A)
Poetry Under Oath: From The Testimony Of William Jefferson Clinton And Monica S. Lewinsky (1998) - Tom Simon (-) (Grade:A)
Point Counter Point (1928) - Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894
-11/22/1963) (Grade:D)
The Poisonwood Bible (1999) - Barbara Kingsolver (
-4/08/1955) (Grade:F)
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis () - Leo Strauss (09/20/1899
-10/18/1973) (Grade:B+)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories : Modern Tales for Our Life & Times (1994) - James Finn Garner (1939-) (Grade:B+)
Polo Anyone ? : A Nick Polo Mystery (1988) - Jerry Kennealy (-) (Grade:B+)
Poodle Springs (1989) - Robert B. Parker (09/17/1932
-01/18/2010) - Raymond Chandler (7/23/1888
-3/26/1959) (Grade:C)
Pop. 1280 (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977) (Grade:A-)
The Population Bomb (1968) - Paul R. Ehrlich (-) (Grade:F)
The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.: A Novel (1981) - George Steiner (04/23/1929
-02/03/2020) (Grade:C+)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Phillip Roth (3/19/1933
-5/22/2018) (Grade:F)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - James Joyce (2/02/1882
-1/13/1941) (Grade:F)
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker (2003) - James McManus (-) (Grade:C)
Possession: A Romance (1990) - A.S. [Antonia Susan] Byatt (8/24/1936
-) (Grade:A+)
The Possession (2002) - Annie Ernaux (
-) (Grade:D-)
Post Captain (1972) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914
-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+)
The Postman (Il Postino) (1985) - Antonio Skarmeta (1940-) (Grade:A)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) - James M Cain (7/1/1892
-10/27/77) (Grade:A)
Postmodern Pooh (2001) - Frederick Crews (2/20/1933
-6/21/2024) (Grade:A)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) - Robert A. Caro (10/30/1935
-) (Grade:A+)
Power Golf (1948) - Ben Hogan (1912
-1997) (Grade:B+)
Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2001) - Elizabeth A. Fenn (1959-) (Grade:A-)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) - John Irving (1942-) (Grade:C)
The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life (2000) - Bruce Wilkinson (-) (Grade:C)
Prayers for the Assassin (2006) - Robert Ferrigno (
-) (Grade:A)
The Prestige (1995) - Christopher Priest (7/14/1943
-2/02/2024) (Grade:A)
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics (1996) - Anonymous (
-) (Grade:A-)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) - Muriel Spark (2/01/1918
-4/12/2006) (Grade:D)
Prime Time Blues : African Americans on Network Television (2001) - Donald Bogle (-) (Grade:C-)
The Prince (1513) - Niccolo Machiavelli (5/03/1469
-6/21/1527) (Grade:A+)
The Princess and the Goblin (1872) - George MacDonald (1824-1902) (Grade:A)
The Princess Bride : S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: The 'Good Parts' Version, Abridged (1973) - William Goldman (8/12/1931
-11/16/2018) (Grade:A)
The Princess of Burundi (Ann Lindell Mysteries) (2002) - Kjell Eriksson (1953-) (Grade:A-)
The Prison of Memory (1999) - Peter Rodgers (-) (Grade:B+)
Prisoner for God: Letters and Papers from Prison (1953) - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (02/04/1906
-04/09/1945) (Grade:A)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) - Anthony Hope (2/09/1863-7/08/1933) (Grade:A-)
Privileged Information (1984) - Tom Alibrandi (-) - Frank H. Armani (-) (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+)
Prometheus Bound (460 BC) - Aeschylus (525
-456 BC) (Grade:A+)
The Promise of Light (1992) - Paul Watkins (1964-) (Grade:A+)
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (1997) - Walter McDougall (12/03/1946
-) (Grade:A)
The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office (2003) - Gary Delsohn (-) (Grade:C)
The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race (2001) - G. Bruce Knecht (-) (Grade:B+)
Public Opinion (1922) - Walter Lippmann (09/23/1889-12/14/1974) (Grade:D)
The Punic Wars (2000) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969
-) (Grade:A)
The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (1958) - Edmund S. Morgan (01/17/1916
-7/08/2013) (Grade:A+)
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism (2007) - George McKenna (-) (Grade:A+)
The Purloined Letter (story) (1844) - Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809
-10/07/1849) (Grade:A+)
Pursuit : An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (2003) - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (1936-) (Grade:A)
Pygmalion (1912) - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Grade:A)
The Pyramid (1992) - Ismail Kadare (1/28/1936
-7/01/2024) (Grade:B)
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