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All the World's a Stage
Gretchen Woelfle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

All Three Stooges
Erica S. Perl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

All We Know
Simon French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Almost Home
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Alpha
Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was in June
Clive James

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

A Madness So Discreet
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Man Called Horse
Dorothy M. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

A Man Like Smith
Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

A Man's World
Donald McRae

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Ambivalent Conquests
Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Ambush
James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Meeting In The Dark
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Icon
Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

American Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

American Reckoning
Christian G. Appy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Wasteland
Jonathan Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

America (The Book)
Jon Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Midnight Clear
William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Million Little Pieces
James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Among the Barons
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Among the Brave
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

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 Thugs
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

A Morbid Taste For Bones
Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Mother's Reckoning
Sue Klebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Municipal Report
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

A Murder in Virginia
Suzanne Lebsock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

An Abundance of Katherines
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

An Acquaintance with Darkness
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

An American Genocide
Benjamin Madley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

An American Requiem
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
David Crockett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1834

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

A Nation Under Our Feet
Steven Hahn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Norman Cousins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Anatomy of Injustice
Raymond Bonner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Ancient Light
John Banville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

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 Then All Hell Broke Loose
Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

And We Stay
Jenny Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

An Empire for Slavery
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

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

A Nervous Splendor
Frederic Morton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A New Religious America
Diana Eck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Philip Massinger

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1625

An Imaginary Life
David Malouf

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1978

Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Animal Wise
Virginia Morell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1995

Anita and Me
Meera Syal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Anna And The Swallow Man
Gavriel Savit

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Anna Dressed In Blood
Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Annals of the Former World
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Anne Frank Remembered
Miep Gies

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Anne of the Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1915

Annie and the Old One
Miska Miles

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1971

Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Annie's Ghosts
Steve Luxenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Annus Mirabilis
Sally Ball

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Anonymous
Christine Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Another Day in the Death of America
Gary Younge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Anthills Of The Savannah
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Antonietta
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969