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ALPHABETICAL

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 Daughter
Stephanie Thornton Plymale

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

American Dervish
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
David E. Stannard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

American Icon
Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

American Individualism
Herbert Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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 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 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 Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
Samuel P. Huntington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

American Primitive
Mary Oliver

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

American Prince
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Salvage
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

American Scripture
Pauline Maier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

American Slavery: 1619-1877
Peter Kolchin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

American Sniper
Jim DeFelice

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 Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

American Visa
Juan De Recacoechea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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 Woman
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Am I Black Enough For You?
Anita Heiss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Amina's Voice
Hena Khan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Aminata: A play (Plays for school series)
Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1)
Holly Bourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee
Thomas Brussig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Ammonite
Nicola Griffith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Amnesty
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Among the Tibetans
Isabella Lucy Bird

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Amor
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

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