Comprehensive Exam Studying

On May 24 & 26, 2010 I'll be taking my PhD Comprehensive exams in Political Analysis and in Normative Analysis. To prepare for these exams, I need to read what seems like a million (but is probably more accurately about 30) books in the next few months. Since this is what I'm spending a lot of my time doing, and since it probably helps me to synthesize data, I've decided to start posting summaries of the books that I read as I finish them. Hopefully other people will find these books as interesting as I do!