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Annus Mirabilis
Sally Ball

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

An Octoroon
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

An Old-Fashioned Girl
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Anonymous
Christine Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

An Ordinary Man
Paul Rusesabagina

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Nick Flynn

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Another Country
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Another Day
David Levithan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Another Day in the Death of America
Gary Younge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Fine Myth
Robert Lynn Asprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Another Life: A Memoir of Other People
Michael Korda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Answered Prayers
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Antarctica
Claire Keegan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Antelope Woman
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Anthem
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Anthills Of The Savannah
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Antichrista
Amélie Nothomb

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Andrew Marantz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Anti-Stepbrother
Tijan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Antonietta
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Antonina (European Classics)
Evgeniya Tur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

An Unfinished Story
Boo Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

An Untamed State
Roxane Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

An Unwanted Guest
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Max Lucado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Anxious People
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol

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

Any Bitter Thing
Monica Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Anybody Out There?
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Any Day with You
Mae Respicio

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Any Dream Will Do
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Any Duchess Will Do
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Any Human Heart
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Anyone But You
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Any Sign of Life
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Any Small Goodness
Tony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Anything But Typical
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Anything You Want
Derek Sivers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3)
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Any Which Wall
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Ape and Essence
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Ape House
Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Apeirogon
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Apex Hides the Hurt
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Apocalyptic Planet
Craig Childs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Apollyon
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life)
John Henry Newman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Charles B. Dew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Apple: Skin to the Core
Eric Gansworth

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2020

Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Apple Tree Yard
Louise Doughty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Appomattox: The Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Apprentice in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

April Morning
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Apsara Engine
Bishakh Kumar Som

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2020

Apt Pupil
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Aquarium
David Vann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Arabella
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Arabian Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1704

Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
Charles Godfrey Leland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Aram's Choice
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Arboreality
Rebecca Campbell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2022

Arcadia
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Archangel's Blade
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Archangel's Consort
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Archangel's Kiss
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Archangel's Legion
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Archangel's Shadows
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Archenemies
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Archer's Quest
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Archer's Voice
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Archimedes and the Door of Science
Jeanne Bendick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Francis D.K. Ching

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Arc of Justice
Kevin Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004