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After Lunch with Frank O'Hara
Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Aftermath
Mary Yukari Waters

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

After That Night
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

After the End
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

After The First Death
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

After the Funeral
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

After the Last Border:Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
Jessica Goudeau

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

After the Music Stopped
Alan S. Blinder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

After the Night
Linda Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

After the Snow
S. D. Crockett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

After This
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

After We Collided
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

After We Fell
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Afterworlds
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

After You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Again, But Better
Christine Riccio

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Again, Rachel
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Against All Enemies
Richard A. Clarke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Again the Magic
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Agatha Christie
Gillian Gill

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Agency
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agenda 21
Glenn Beck, Harriet Parke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Agent to the Stars
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Age of Anger
Pankaj Mishra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Age of Iron
John Maxwell Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Age of Myth
Michael J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Age of Swords
Marc Simonetti, Michael J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Agincourt
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Agnes and the Hitman
Bob Mayer, Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Agnes of God
John Pielmeier

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Agricola
Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 98

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Ahimsa
Supriya Kelkar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Ahsoka
E.K. Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2022

Ain't No Makin It
Jay Macleod

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Air Awakens
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Airframe
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Airhead
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Airman
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Airport
Arthur Hailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ajax
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Akira, Vol. 1
Satoshi Kon, Katsuhiro Otomo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Alabama Moon
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Alamut
Judith Tarr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Albert Camus: A Biography
Herbert R. Lottman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Albion's Seed
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Al Capone Does My Homework
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Alcestis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Alchemy of the Mind
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
Rory Sutherland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Alexander Hamilton
Jessica McBirney

Nonfiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Alexander Pope: A Life
Maynard Mack

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1968

Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Alex, Approximately
Jenn Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Alex Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Alex Cross, Run
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Alex Cross's Trial
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
Hugh Brogan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Alex & Me
Irene Pepperberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Alfred Kazin's Journals
Richard M. Cook

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Algorithms To Live By
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ali and Nino
Kurban Said

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Alibis
André Aciman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Alice
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Stacy A. Cordery

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Alice in Wonderland
Rene Cloke, Lewis Carroll, Jane Carruth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1865

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Ali Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Alien
Alan Dean Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Alienated
Melissa Landers

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Alive
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All about Love: Love Song to the Nation Book 1
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

All Adults Here
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All American Boys
Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All-American Girl
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003