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Among Others
Jo Walton

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Among School Children
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Amongst Women
John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

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 Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
Max Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Among the Impostors
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Among the Mad
Jacqueline Winspear, Orlagh Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Among the Thugs
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Amulet
Roberto Bolaño

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Abundance of Katherines
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

An Acceptable Time
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1990

An Acquaintance with Darkness
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

An Actor Prepares
Constantin Stanislavski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Analects of Confucius
Confucius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

An American Genocide
Benjamin Madley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

An American Marriage
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
Michele Hutchison, Annejet van der Zijl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

An American Requiem
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

An Anonymous Girl: A Novel
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

An Artificial Night
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Anathem
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Norman Cousins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Anatomy of a Scandal
Sarah Vaughan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Anatomy of Injustice
Raymond Bonner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
Caroline Myss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

An Author's Odyssey
Chris Colfer, Brandon Dorman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Ancient Light
John Banville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

And Another Thing...
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Fredrik Backman, Alice Menzies

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Only to Deceive
Tasha Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Andrew Carnegie And The Rise Of Big Business
Harold C. Livesay

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1975

And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students
Miles Corwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

And The Band Played On
Randy Shilts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

And We Stay
Jenny Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

An Echo in the Darkness
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

An Echo of Things to Come
James Islington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

An Elephant in the Garden
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

An Empire for Slavery
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1882

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

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 Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1690

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1798

Angel
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Angelfall
Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Angel Falls
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Angelfire
Courtney Allison Moulton

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Angel Of Greenwood
Randi Pink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Angels
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Angels and Demons
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angels' Blood
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Angels Fall
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Angels Flight
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Tony Kushner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Anger Is a Gift
Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971