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

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

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A+)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:A)

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

Tales of the Alhambra (1832) - Washington Irving (4/03/1783 -11/28/1859)  (Grade:A)

Taras Bulba (1839) - Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) (Grade:A+)

Tarzan of the Apes (1912) - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)  (Grade:A+)

The Tatra Eagle (2012) - J. Victor Tomaszek (-)  (Grade:A)

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003) - David Halberstam (04/10/1934-)  (Grade:A)

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

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

Telling the Truth : Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense-And What We Can Do About It (1995) - Lynne V. Cheney (-)  (Grade:B)

The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1990) - Robert H. Bork (03/01/1927 -12/19/2012)  (Grade:A+)

Tender is the Night (1934) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:C-)

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

A Test of Wills (1996) - Charles Todd ( -)  (Grade:C+)

Thatcher For Beginners (1997) - Peter Pugh (-)  (Grade:B)

The 10 Commandments : The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life (1998) - Rabbi Stewart Vogel (-) - Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947-)  (Grade:C+)

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

The Unit (2009) - Ninni Holmqvist (1958-)  (Grade:C+)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston (1/07/1891 -1/28/1960)  (Grade:B)

Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine (2005) - Candice E. Jackson (-)  (Grade:A)

A Theory of Justice (1971) - John Rawls (02/21/1921 -11/24/2002)  (Grade:F)

There Was an Old Woman (1943) - Ellery Queen (-)  (Grade:B)

These Precious Days: Tell me how the story ends (essay) (2021) - Ann Patchett (12/03/1963 -)  (Grade:A+)

They Shall Have Stars (aka : Year 2018!) [Part One of Cities in Flight] (1957) - James Blish (1921-1975)  (Grade:C+)

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

Thick as Thieves (1995) - Patrick Quinn (-)  (Grade:A)

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

The Thin Red Line (1962) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977)  (Grade:C)

Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe (11/16/1930 -3/21/2013)  (Grade:A+)

The Third Man (1950) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A-)

The Third Reich : A New History (2000) - Michael Burleigh (-)  (Grade:A)

A Third Testament (1976) - Malcolm Muggeridge (03/24/1903 -11/14/1990)  (Grade:A)

This Gun for Hire [A Gun for Sale] (1936) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:B-)

Those Damn Yankees : The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise (1999) - Dean Chadwin (-)  (Grade:C)

A Thousand Acres (1991) - Jane Smiley (9/26/1949 -)  (Grade:C-)

Thousand Cranes (1949) - Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)  (Grade:D)

The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America (2009) - Douglas E. Schoen (1953-) - Michael Rowan (1942-) (Grade:A+)

The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)  (Grade:A+)

Three War Stories (2013) - David Mamet (11/30/1947-)  (Grade:B-)

Three-ten to Yuma (story) (1953) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:A-)

The Thrill of the Grass (story) (1984) - W. P. Kinsella (5/25/1935 -9/16/2026)  (Grade:A+)

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

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

A Time of War (1990) - Michael Peterson (-)  (Grade:C+)

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran (2010) - Reza Khalili (-)  (Grade:B)

Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1992) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -5/19/2023)  (Grade:C)

The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) - Malcolm Gladwell (09/03/1963-)  (Grade:C+)

The Tisza () - Sándor Pet?fi (01/01/1823-07/31/1849) (Grade:A+)

To Afghanistan and Back : A Graphic Travelogue (2002) - Ted Rall (-) (Grade:F)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee (4/28/1926 -2/19/2016)  (Grade:A+)

To Swim Across The World : A Novel (2001) - Ginger Park (-) - Frances Park (1955-)  (Grade:A)

To the Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf (1/25/1882 -3/28/1941)  (Grade:F)

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) - Philip Jose Farmer (-)  (Grade:B)

To a Passer-by (poem) (1855) - Charles Baudelaire (4/09/1821-8/31/1867)  (Grade:B+)

Tobacco Road (1932) - Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)  (Grade:C+)

Tony And Me: A Story of Friendship (2005) - Jack Klugman (04/27/1922-)  (Grade:B)

Too Good to Be True : The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (1999) - Jan Harold Brunvand (-)  (Grade:C)

The Tortilla Curtain (1995) - T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-)  (Grade:C-)

Torture and Democracy (2007) - Darius Rejali (-)  (Grade:C+)

Touch of Evil (1992) - Whit Masterson (1920-1961)  (Grade:B)

Toward Rational Exuberance : The Evolution of Modern Stock Market (2001) - B. Mark Smith (-)  (Grade:A)

Tracks (2007) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A-)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:A+)

The Tragedy of King Lear (1605) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:B-)

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

The Tragedy of Richard III (1593) - William Shakespeare (4/26/1564 (date of baptism) -4/23/1616)  (Grade:A-)

Train (2012) - Alice Munro (7/10/1931 -5/13/2024)  (Grade:A)

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+)

Treason's Harbour (1983) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A-)

Treasure Island (1881) - Robert Louis Stevenson (11/13/1850 -12/03/1894)  (Grade:A+)

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

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

Treehouse Chronicles: One Man's Dream of Life Aloft (2005) - S. Peter Lewis (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Trial [Der Process] (1925) - Franz Kafka (07/03/1883 -06/03/1924)  (Grade:C-)

The Trial of Socrates (1988) - I.F. Stone (1907-1989)  (Grade:B-)

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

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (2006) - Mark Moyar (5/12/1971 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed (1986) - David Stockman (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Trojan War : A New History (2006) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)  (Grade:A)

Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Henry Miller (1891 -1980)  (Grade:F)

Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society (1971) - Duncan Williams (-1985)  (Grade:A)

Trout Fishing in America (1967) - Richard Brautigan (1/30/1935 -9/16/1984)  (Grade:C)

Trout Madness () - Robert Traver (6/29/1903 -3/18/1991) (Grade:A+)

The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) - Eric Hoffer (7/15/1902 -5/21/1983) (Grade:A)

True Grit (1968) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:A+)

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (1989) - Jon Scieszka (1954-)  (Grade:A)

Truman (1992) - David McCullough (7/07/1933 -8/07/2022)  (Grade:B)

Trust: Self-interest and the Common Good (2008) - Marek Kohn (-)  (Grade:C)

The Truth about Syria (2007) - Barry Rubin (-)  (Grade:A)

Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004) - Bart D. Ehrman (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House (2001) - Benjamin R. Barber (08/02/1939-)  (Grade:B)

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and a Last Great Lesson (1997) - Mitch Albom (-)  (Grade:C-)

TulipoMania: The Story Of The World's Most Coveted Flower & The Extraordinary Passions It Aroused (2000) - Mike Dash (-)  (Grade:B)

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

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

Twelve Steps Away from the Times (6/11/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F)

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

Twins : A Novel (2005) - Marcy Dermansky (-)  (Grade:A)

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) - C. P. Snow (1905 -1980)  (Grade:D)

The Two Faces of Liberalism (2000) - John Gray (4/17/1948 -)  (Grade:C)

Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East (2003) - Martine Rothblatt (-)  (Grade:A)

Two-Part Invention : The Story of a Marriage (1988) - Madeleine L'Engle (11/29/1918 -09/06/2007)  (Grade:C+)