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The Old Gray Homestead
Frances Parkinson Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1952

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Sepulveda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Old Regime and The French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1856

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Robert Macfarlane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Omen
David Seltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Omen Machine
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Young Readers Edition
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2006

The Once and Future King
T.H. White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1958

The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The One
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The One And Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The One and Only Ruby
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4)
Philip Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Marianne Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The One-in-a-Million Boy
Monica Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The One Memory of Flora Banks
Emily Barr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The One & Only
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The One Safe Place
Tania Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Ones We're Meant to Find
Joan He

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The One (The Selection, #3)
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The One You Love
Paul Pilkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Onion Field
Joseph Wambaugh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Only Alien on the Planet
Kristen D. Randle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Only One Left
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Only Road
Alexandra Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Only Story
Julian Barnes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Only Survivors
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Only Woman in the Room
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Opal Deception
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Open Boat and Other Stories
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

The Opportunist
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Optimistic Decade
Heather Abel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Orange Eats Creeps
Grace Krilanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Orange Girl
Jostein Gaarder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Orange Houses
Paul Griffin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Orchid House
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Daniel K. Richter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Bernard Bailyn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Order
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Order (Gabriel Allon, #20)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
Zen Cho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ordinary Princess
M.M. Kaye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Oregon Trail
Francis Parkman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Orenda
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Organic Machine
Richard White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Tom Reiss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
Jordanes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Ellen Meiksins Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Origin of Others
Toni Morrison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Origins of Money
Carl Menger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Origins of the Second World War
A.J.P. Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Orphan
Robert Stallman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Orphanage by the Lake
Daniel G. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Orphan of Ellis Island
Elvira Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Orphan's Tale
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Other
Thomas Tryon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Other Americans
Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Other Child
Lucy Atkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Other Daughter
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Other Einstein: A novel
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Other Emily
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
Patricia B. McConnell

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

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family
Bettye Kearse

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020