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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 (Time Quintet, #5)
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | 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 Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
Barbara Brown Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
Gunnar Myrdal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

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 Summer
Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Anandamath
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
Janet Frame

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

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 Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

An Apology for Idlers
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
Frederick Douglass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Anarchy
Errico Malatesta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
V.S. Naipaul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Anastasia Again! (Anastasia Krupnik, #2)
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Anastasia Krupnik (Anastasia Krupnik, #1)
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

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 Impossible Longing
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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 a Murder
Robert Traver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

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 Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

An Author's Odyssey
Chris Colfer, Brandon Dorman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

An Autobiographical Study
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt: Complete and Unabridged with Appendices and Notes
Theodore Roosevelt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ancient Light
John Banville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
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

And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe, #13)
Rex Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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 (Lady Emily, #1)
Tasha Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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 Birds Rained Down
Jocelyne Saucier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And Then
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

And Then There's Margaret
Carolyn Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
Jacques Lusseyran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Henderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

And We Stay
Jenny Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

An Eagle in the Snow
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Anecdotes of Destiny
Isak Dinesen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

An Echo in the Darkness (Mark of the Lion, #2)
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

An Echo in Time: Atlantis (The Ancient Future, #2)
Traci Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)
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 Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Emotion of Great Delight
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

An Empire for Slavery
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson, Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

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

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
Elizabeth McCracken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008