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Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Across The Desert
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Act of Union
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Eboo Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Daisy Hernandez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Curious Beginning
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curse for True Love
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Adam of the Road
Elizabeth Gray Vining

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Adam's Song
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Dark Brown Dog
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1901

A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day of Fallen Night
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day's Wait
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

Addicted to You
Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

Adelaide: A Novel
Genevieve Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1710

A Devoted Son
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood
Edward M. Hallowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Disability History of the United States
Kim E. Nielsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Distant Episode
Paul Bowles

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

A Dog Called Homeless
Sarah Lean

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

A Dog Has Died
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

A Dog's Life
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

Adonais
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1821

A Dowry of Blood
S. T. Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

A Duet For Home
Karina Yan Glaser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Advice to My Son
Peter Meinke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

A Fable
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

A Fall of Marigolds
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Family Supper
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1983

A Far Cry from Africa
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A Fatal Grace
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Fate Inked in Blood
Danielle Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Affluenza
John de Graaf, Thomas Naylor, David Wann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Fierce Discontent
Michael McGerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Fire in the Flesh
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A First Time for Everything
Dan Santat

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Following
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Africa Kills Her Sun
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Afro-Latina
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

After
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

After
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

After Annie: A Novel
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

After I Do
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After The First Death
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

after the quake
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

After Twenty Years
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1906

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 You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
Eric Jay Dolin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Again Later
Martha Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1966

Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
Joan W. Blos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Gesture Life
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Girl Called Samson
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Glimpse
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019