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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ed. Katharine K. Wilkinson

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All We Have Left
Wendy Mills

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

All We Know
Simon French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Nicole Chung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Alexander O. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

All Your Perfects
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All Your Twisted Secrets
Diana Urban

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Almond
Won-pyung Sohn, Transl. Joosun Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Almost American Girl
Robin Ha

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2020

Almost a Woman
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Almost Heaven
Judith McNaught

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Almost Home
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Almost, Maine
John Cariani

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Alone
Megan E. Freeman

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Along Came a Spider
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Along the Infinite Sea
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alpha
Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alpha & Omega
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Altered Carbon
Richard K.Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Always Only You
Chloe Liese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Always Running
Luis Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Always You
Kirsty Moseley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Amadeus
Milos Forman

Fiction | Adult | Published in 1984

Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Amari And The Great Game
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Amazing Grace Adams
Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Amazonia
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Ambiguous Adventure
Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Ambivalent Conquests
Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Ambush
James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

America is in the Heart
Carlos Bulosan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

American Assassin
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

American Buffalo
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Alan Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

American Creation
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

American Dervish
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

American Gods
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American History: A Survey
Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

American Icon
Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Americanized: Rebel without a Green Card
Sara Saedi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

American King
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
Nick Bilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

American Marxism
Mark R. Levin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

American Moor
Keith Hamilton Cobb

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

American Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Craig Ferguson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

American Panda
Gloria Chao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

American Prince
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

American Queen
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

American Reckoning
Christian G. Appy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Royals
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

American Scripture
Pauline Maier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Edmund S. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

American Sniper
Chris Kyle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Street
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

American Vampire, Vol. 1
Stephen King, Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

American War
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

American Wasteland
Jonathan Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

America's First Daughter
Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

America (The Book)
Jon Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Amerika
Edwin Muir, E.L. Doctorow, Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Klaus Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Amerika: The Missing Person
Franz Kafka, Transl. Willa Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Amina's Voice
Hena Khan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018