Below is a list of books recommended by Grindstone Journal writers. Click on the titles with hyperlinks to read reviews. Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mostly Harmless The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, the Universe, and Everything Madeleine Albright Madam Secretary: A Memoir The Mighty and the Almighty Piers Anthony Firefly Aristophanes Lysistrata Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Isaac Asimov Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation and Earth Fantastic Voyage Robert Asprey The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte Francis Bacon Essays Owen Barfield Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry Dan Barker Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist Correlli Barnett The First Churchill: Marlborough as Soldier and Statesman Beccaria On Crimes and Punishments Alexander M. Bickel The Least Dangerous Branch- The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics Charles L. Black, Jr. A New Birth of Freedom: Human Rights, Named and Unnamed Robert Bretal (editor) A Kierkegaard Anthology Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls Paul Brooker Twentieth-Century Dictatorships: The Ideological One-Party States Vincent Bugliosi The Betrayal of America Drugs in America: The Case for Victory : A Citizen's Call to Action Albert Camus The Stranger James Carville We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives James Carville, Mary Matalin All's Fair : Love, War, and Running for President David Chandler (editor) Military Memoirs of Marlborough's Campaigns, 1702-1712 Erwin Chemerinsky Constitutional Law Case 2003 Noam Chomsky Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky Failed States- The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Winston S. Churchill Marlborough: His Life and Times The Second World War (6 vols) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4 vols) Tom Clancy The Cardinal of the Kremlin The Hunt for Red October Patriot Games Richard Clarke Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror Carl Von Clausewitz On War James Clavell Shogun Bill Clinton My Life Giving Hillary Rodham Clinton Living History Charles W. Colson Born Again: What Really Happened to the White House Hatchet Man Confucius The Analects of Confucius Geoffrey Cowan The People v. Clarence Darrow Michael Crichton Jurassic Park Rising Sun The Andromeda Strain Ann N. Crigler (editor) The Psychology of Political Communication Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Richard Dawkins The God Delusion The Selfish Gene The Blind Watchmaker James Deetz Invitation to Archaeology Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness Exlpained Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life René Descartes A Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities E. J. Dionne Stand Up Fight Back : Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Joseph J. Ellis Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Scott Ellsworth Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Susan Faludi Backlash Richard F. Fenno, Jr. The Yalta Conference Kate Fleming The Churchills Thomas Frank What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom David Fromkin A Peace to End All Peace The Independence of Nations John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash 1929 Dennis L. Gilbert American Class Structure: A New Synthesis T. H. Green, John R. Rodman (editor) The Political Theory of T. H. Green Alan Greenspan The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Germaine Greer The Female Eunich John Gribbon In Search of the Big Bang Quantum Physics In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, D. D. Gladstone: The Man and His Work John Gunther Death be not Proud Duane E. Haines Fundamental Neuroscience David Halberstam The Education of a Coach The Best and the Brightest Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay The Federalist Papers Stephen W. Hawking A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Christopher Hibbert Wellington: A Personal History Christopher Hitchens Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Leonard T. Hobhouse Liberalism James P. Hogan Code of the Lifemaker Inherit the Stars The Gentle Giants of Ganymede The Giants Star Michael Holley Patriot Reign Nick Hornby High Fidelity About a Boy James D. Hornfischer (editor) Right Thinking: Conservative Common Sense Through the Ages David Hume Selected Essays Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights Kathleen Hall Jamieson Everything You Think You Know About Politics... And Why You're Wrong Elizabeth Jenkins Elizabeth the Great Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis John Keegan Intelligence in War John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage John Maynard Keynes The Economic Consequences of the Peace Essays in Persuasion The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Irving Kristol Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Kathryn Kuhlman I Believe in Miracles George Lakoff Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think Thinking Points Sonja Larsen and John Bourdeau Legal Research for Beginners Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Gary Lenaire An Infidel Manifesto: Why Sincere Believers Lose Faith William E. Leuchtenburg Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity The Proplem of Pain Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry Rush Limbaugh The Way Things Ought to Be Arthur S. Link (Editor) Woodrow Wilson: A Profile John Locke Political Essays The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration Elizabeth Longford Wellington: The Years of the Sword Emil Ludwig Napoleon John Lydon No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs: The Authorized Biography of Johnny Rotten Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince Andre Mairois Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels The Communist Manifesto The Marx-Engles Reader (Edited by Robert C. Tucker) Robert K. Massie Castles of Steel James D. McCabe History of the Centenial Exhibition John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism On Liberty Considerations on Representative Government Principles of Political Economy Baron De Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Bryan Morry Patriots United: The New England Patriots World Championship Season (Edited by Fred Kirsch and Chrys Goyens) National Commission on Terrorist Attacks The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Friedrich Nietzsche Will to Power Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone George Orwell 1984 Animal Farm Ovid Metamorphoses Thomas Paine Common Sense The Rights of Man Joseph Chilton Pearce The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality Plato Republic James F. Quinn Corrections: A Concise Introduction Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal For the New Intellectual The Virtue of Selfishness John Rawls Political Liberalism Robert Reich Reason : Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire The Vampire Lestat William L. Riordon Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics Scott Ritter Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem-- Once and For All Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Discourse on Inequality The Social Contract Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Cosmos J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Chris Matthew Sciabarra Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical Roger Scruton The Meaning of Conservatism Eric Arnold Sevareid Not So Wild a Dream William Shakespeare Hamlet Henry V Julius Ceasar King John Macbeth Midsummer Night's Dream Othello Romeo and Juliet Titus Andronicus The Winter's Tale Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations Sophocles Oedipus the King Lytton Stachey Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History Staff of the New York Times Churchill In Memoriam Paul Starr Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism George Stephanopoulos All Too Human John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Pearl Bram Stoker Dracula Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin E.M.W. Tillyard The Elizabethan World Picture Alexis de Toqueville Democracy in America (2 vols) Barbara Tuchman The Guns of August The March of Folly The Zimmerman Telegram Sun Tzu The Art of War Melvin I. Urofsky Louis D. Brandeis Various Authors Holy Bible Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class Francisco de Vitoria Political Writings Voltaire Candide Conrad P. Waligorski Liberal Economics and Democracy Jeff Walker The Ayn Rand Cult Jim Wallis God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It W. L. Warren King John Harry H. Wellington Interpreting the Constitution- The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication H. G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau Paul Wellstone The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda Oscar Wilde A Picture of Dorian Gray Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Garry Wills A Necessary Evil Head and Heart: American Christianities James Madison Bob Woodward Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom

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