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The African Queen
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Afterlife
Donald Antrim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Afterlife of Holly Chase
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Aftermath
Rhidian Brook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The After Party
Anton DiSclafani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Agathas (The Agathas #1)
Kathleen Glasgow, Liz Lawson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
Stephen Denning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (W.H. Auden: Critical Editions)
W.H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
Ernest Freeberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Age Of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Age Of Reason
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1794

The Age of Reform
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Age of Witches
Louisa Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Agony of Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Aguero Sisters: A Novel
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Aims of Education and Other Essays
Alfred North Whitehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Air He Breathes
Brittainy C. Cherry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Alchemist
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1610

The Alchemist's Daughter
Katharine McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
Thomas Hager

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Alchemy of Finance
George Soros

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Ainissa Ramirez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Alchemyst
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1949

The Alexandria Link
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Alex Crow
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Alexiad
Anna Comnena

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
Scott Galloway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Alice Network
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Alienist
Caleb Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The A-List (A-List, #1)
Zoey Dean

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The All-American
Susie Finkbeiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
C.S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The All of It
Jeannette Haien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The All-Together Painting (Old Bear)
Jane Hissey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Almost Sisters
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Leonard Shlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
L.M. Montgomery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
Todd Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Amateur
Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Amateur Emigrant
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Amateur Marriage
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Amateurs (The Amateurs, #1)
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom
Katherine Arnoldi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Adrienne Mayor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Ambassadors
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Ambassador's Mission
Trudi Canavan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Amber Room
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Ambrose Deception
Emily Ecton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Amen Corner
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
Kiersten Modglin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The American
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The American Crisis
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1776

The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
Jim Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The American Frontier in Hawaii: The Pioneers, 1789-1843
Harold Whitman Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The American Heiress
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

The Americanization of Edward Bok
Edward William Bok

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The American Pageant: A History of the Republic
Thomas A. Bailey, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Molly Caldwell Crosby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The American Political Tradition
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
Charles Howard Mcilwain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The American Revolution: A History
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Robert J. Allison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The American Roommate Experiment
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The American Senator
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The American South: A History (Volume 2)
William J. Cooper Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Gift for History Buffs)
David M. Rubenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience
Daniel J. Boorstin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Tracie McMillan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The America Play
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The America We Deserve
Donald J. Trump, Dave Shiflett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Amish Wife
Gregg Olsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Amphibian
Alexander Belyaev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Analysis of Mind
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019