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Read While You Drive

This is a list of books that I’ve read while driving. The following is the listing format used.

Title:

Author:

Genre:

Rating: 5***** Excellent. Highly recommend
             4**** Very Good. Exceeds expectations

             3*** Good. Met expectations but did not exceed them.

             2** Fairly low opinion. Recommend only with reservations.

             1* Extremely low opinion of this item. Would not recommend.

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Title: “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~2~
Title: “Bleachers”
Author: John Grisham
Genre:Psychological Fiction
Rating: 2**
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~3~
Title: “The Brethren”
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
Rating: 4****
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~4~
Title: “The Last Juror”
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Legal stories
Rating: 5*****
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~5~
Title: “The Lovely Bones”
Author: Alice Sebold
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~6~
Title: “Life Expectancy”
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~7~
Title: “Odd Thomas”
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~8~
Title: “The Turn of the Screw”
Author: Henry James
Genre: Mistery
Rating: 5*****
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~9~
Title: “Plainsong”
Author: Kent Haruf
Genre: Domestic Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~10~
Title: “Ava’s Man”
Author: Rick Bragg
Genre: Southern States Biography
Rating: 5*****
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~11~
Title: “Mayday”
Author: Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block
Genre: Adventure Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~12~
Title: “The Da Vinci Code”
Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Mystery Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~13~
Title: “Seabiscuit”
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 3***
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~14~
Title: “A home at the End of the World“
Author: Michael Cunningham
Genre: Domestic Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~15~
Title: “The King of Torts”
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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 ~16~
Title: “Land’s End; A walk in Provincetown“
Author: Michael Cunningham
Genre: Nonfition
Rating: 4****
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~17~
Title: “Angels and Demons“
Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Fition
Rating: 5*****
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~18~
Title: “The Kite Runner“
Author: Khalet Hosseini
Genre: Fition
Rating: 5*****
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~19~
Title: “The Great Gatsby”
Author:  Scott F. Fitzgerald
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~20~
Title: The Hours
Author:  Michael Cunningham
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~21~
Title: Specimen Days
Author:  Michael Cunningham
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~22~
Title: In Cold Blood
Author: Truman Capote
Genre: Nonfition
Rating: 4****
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~23~
Title: The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Genre: Political Science
Rating: 5*****
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~24~
Title: The Hunt: the 12-day chase for Lincoln’s killer
Author: James L. Swanson
Genre: Non fiction
Rating: 3***
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~25~
Title: Guns, Germs, & Stee:the fates of human societies
Author: Jared Diamond
Genre: Non fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~26~
Title: Thirteen moons
Author: Charles Frazier
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~27~
Title: Girl With A Pearl Earring
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~28~
Title: Digital Fortress
Author: Dan Brown
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~29~
Title: The Client
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~30~
Title: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~31~
Title: A history of ancient Rome
Author: Frances Titchener
Genre: Textbook
Rating: 4****
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~32~
Title: Big Picture Investing
Author: Peter Navarro
Genre: Textbook/Economics
Rating: 5*****
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~33~
Title: The law of the land: a history of the Supreme Court
Author: Kermit Hall
Genre: Textbook/Law
Rating: 2**
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~34~
Title: Islam and the West
Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Genre: Textbook/Culture and Religion
Rating: 3***
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~35~
Title: Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans: the foundations of Western Civilization
Author: Timothy Shutt
Genre: Textbook/Culture and Religion
Rating: 4****
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~36~
Title: Principles of economics: business, banking, finance, and your everyday life
Author: Navarro, Peter
Genre: Textbook/Economics
Rating: 5*****
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~37~
Title: Rethinking our past: recognizing facts, fictions, and lies in American history
Author: Loewen, James W.
Genre: Textbook/history
Rating: 3***
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~38~
Title: Jerusalem: the contested city
Author: Peters, F. E. (Francis E.)
Genre: Textbook/history
Rating: 4****
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~39~
Title: Bible and the Roots of Western Literature
Author: Adam Potkay
Genre: Textbook/history
Rating: 5*****
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~40~
Title: Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~41~
Title: Darwin, Darwinism, and the modern world
Author: Sengoopta, Chandak
Genre: Textbook - Sicience
Rating: 3***
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~42~
Title: Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~43~
Title: Plato and Aristotle: the genesis of western thought
Author: Louis Aryeh Kosman
Genre: Textbook
Rating: 2**
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~44~
Title: The Rainmaker
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~45~
Title: Forever odd
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~46~
Title: The Firm
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~47~
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~48~
Title: The Silence of the Lambs
Author: Thomas Harris
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~49~
Title: Hannibal Rising
Author: Thomas Harris
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~50~
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Howthotne
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~51~
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~52~
Title: Odd Hours
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 2**
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~53~
Title: Brother Odd
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~54~
Title: Conspiracy of Fools
Author: Kurt Eichenwald
Genre: Non Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~55~
Title: This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~56~
Title: Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~57~
Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~58~
Title: The Almost Moon
Author: Alice Sebold
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~59~
Title: Death on the Nile
Author: Agatha Christie
Genre:Fiction/Mystery
Rating: 3***
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~60~
Title: Death in Venice
Author: Thomas Mann
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~61~
Title: The Renaissance: a short history
Author: Paul Johnson
Genre:Non Fiction
Rating: 4****
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Title: The Appeal
Author: John Grisham
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 2**
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~63~
Title: The giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekov
Author: Liza Knapp
Genre:Textbook/lectures
Rating: 3***
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~64~
Title: Dragon Tears
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~65~
Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~66~
Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~67~
Title: The Talisman
Author: Stephen King
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~68~
Title: Tender is the Night
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~69~
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 4****
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~70~
Title: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Author: Christopher McDougall
Genre:Nonfiction
Rating: 5*****
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~71~
Title: The Girl Who Played with Fire
Author: Stieg Larson
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~72~
Title: A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~73~
Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~74~
Title: The Loveley Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 5*****
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~75~
Title: Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Author: Chip & Dan Heath
Genre:Nonfiction
Rating: 3***
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~76~
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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~77~
Title: Fear Nothing
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre:Fiction
Rating: 3***
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