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Almost Home
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Alpha
Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was in June
Clive James

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Ambivalent Conquests
Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Ambush
James Patterson, James O. Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Icon
Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

American Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

American Reckoning
Christian G. Appy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

American Son
Brian Ascalon Roley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

American Wasteland
Jonathan Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

America (The Book)
Jon Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Among the Barons
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Among the Betrayed
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Among the Brave
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Among the Enemy
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Among the Free
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Among the Thugs
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Amy Hill Hearth
Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, Sarah Louise Delany

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

An Abundance of Katherines
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

An Acquaintance with Darkness
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

An American Genocide
Benjamin Madley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

An American Requiem
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

An Astrologer's Day
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Norman Cousins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Anatomy of Injustice
Raymond Bonner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Ancient Light
John Banville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

And I Darken
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

And It Don't Stop
Raquel Cepeda

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

And We Stay
Jenny Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

An Empire for Slavery
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1751

An Equal Music
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

An Imaginary Life
David Malouf

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1978

Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Animal Wise
Virginia Morell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1995

Anita and Me
Meera Syal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Anna And The Swallow Man
Gavriel Savit

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Anna Dressed In Blood
Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Annals of the Former World
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Anne Frank Remembered
Miep Gies

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Anne of the Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1915

Annie and the Old One
Miska Miles

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1971

Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Annie's Ghosts
Steve Luxenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Annus Mirabilis
Sally Ball

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Anonymous
Christine Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Another Day in the Death of America
Gary Younge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Anthills Of The Savannah
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Antonietta
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Apocalyptic Planet
Craig Childs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Aquarium
David Vann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Arabian Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1704

Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Arctic Summer
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Are We Rome?
Cullen Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Armada
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Armageddon Summer
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1894

Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Arrugas
Paco Roca

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Arthurian Romances
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1170

Arthur Miller
Christopher Bigsby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

As Close to Us As Breathing
Elizabeth Poliner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

As Cool as I Am
Pete Fromm

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Ashfall
Mike Mullin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Asian American Dreams
Helen Zia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Asking for It
Kate Harding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ask the Passengers
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012