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Obasan
Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Odds Against
Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Of Nightingales That Weep
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Of Poseidon
Anna Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Of Sound Mind
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Oh, Beautiful
John Paul Godges

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Old Filth
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Oleanna
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

Omon Ra
Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Omoo
Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

On a Pale Horse
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On Borrowed Time
Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Clifton L. Taulbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One Came Home
Amy Timberlake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

One Child
Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One L
Scott Turow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

One Life: My Mother's Story
Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

One Minute to Midnight
Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One of Us
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

One Shot at Forever
Chris Ballard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

One Thousand White Women
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1984

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

On Gold Mountain
Lisa See

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

On Hitler's Mountain
Irmgard Hunt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Only Ever Yours
Louise O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Only the Animals
Ceridwen Dovey

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

On the Wings of Heroes
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

On Trails
Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Option B
Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orientation: And Other Stories
Daniel Orozco

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Our Daily Bread
Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Our Guys
Bernard Lefkowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Our Savage Neighbors
Peter Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Our Twisted Hero
Yi Mun-Yol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Outerbridge Reach
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1937

Out of Bounds
Beverley Naidoo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2001

Out of Our Past
Carl Degler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

Out of Salem
Hal Schrieve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Out of the Night that Covers Me
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Walt Odets

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Over A Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Hanna Jansen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Overboard
Elizabeth Fama

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Over Sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1965

Over the Edge of the World
Laurence Bergreen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Odd Women
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Old Regime and The French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1856

The One Safe Place
Tania Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Only Alien on the Planet
Kristen D. Randle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Only Story
Julian Barnes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018