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An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Nurse's Story
Peter Baida

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

A Painful Case
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

A Parchment of Leaves
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Passion in the Desert
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1830

A Patch of Blue
Elizabeth Kata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

A Pearl in the Storm
Tori Murden McClure

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

A Pickpocket's Tale
Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Pigeon and a Boy
Meir Shalev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Pigeon's Tale
S.A. Mahan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Place to Belong
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Apocalyptic Planet
Craig Childs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

A Pride of Poppies
Julie Bozza, et al.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Primate's Memoir
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

A Problem from Hell
Samantha Power

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Aquarium
David Vann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A Question of Blood
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Question of Freedom
R. Dwayne Betts

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

A Question of Guilt
Frances Fyfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Arabian Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1704

Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Rage for Order
Robert F. Worth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Arctic Summer
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Remarkable Woman
Anne Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A Replacement Life
Boris Fishman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Are We Rome?
Cullen Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Armada
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Armageddon Summer
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1894

Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Arrugas
Paco Roca

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Arthurian Romances
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1170

Arthur Miller
Christopher Bigsby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Salty Piece of Land
Jimmy Buffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

As Close to Us As Breathing
Elizabeth Poliner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

As Cool as I Am
Pete Fromm

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Season in the Congo
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Marie-Claire Blais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

A Secret Kept
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

A Serious Proposal To The Ladies
Mary Astell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1694

A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Ashfall
Mike Mullin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Shining Thread of Hope
Kathleen Thompson, Darlene Clark Hine

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Short Guide to Writing About Art
Sylvan Barnet

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Short History of the United States
Edward Channing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Asian American Dreams
Helen Zia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

A Silver Dish
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

A Simple Plan
Scott B. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Asking for It
Kate Harding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ask the Passengers
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

A Soldier of the Great War
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Soldier's Secret
Marissa Moss

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

A Solitary Blue
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Son of the Circus
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Spell for Chameleon
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Assassins
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

As She Left It
Catriona McPherson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

As Simple As Snow
Gregory Galloway

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

A Step from Death
Larry Woiwode

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

A Step from Heaven
An Na

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

A Step Toward Falling
Cammie McGovern

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jim St. Germain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2021

A Story Teller's Story
Sherwood Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1924

A Strange and Sublime Address
Amit Chaudhuri

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

A Stranger Among Us
Stacy Bierlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Stranger is Watching
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Astronomer's Wife
Kay Boyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1591

A Sudden Light
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Sudden Silence
Eve Bunting

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Summer Life
Gary Soto

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1990

A Summer's Reading
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil Courtemanche

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978