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Abandoned Farmhouse
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Abduction!
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Abel's Island
William Steig

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Abend Der Worte
Paul Celan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1950

Abeng
Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
Illustr. Liz Clarke, Trevor R. Getz

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

About a Boy
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

About Grace
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1983

Absalom, Absalom
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

Absolutely Almost
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Absolutely Normal Chaos
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Absolution
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Abuela, Don't Forget Me
Rex Ogle

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2022

Abuelito Who
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Abundance
Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Acceleration
Graham McNamee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist
Dario Fo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Across A Hundred Mountains
Reyna Grande

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Across The Desert
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Act of Union
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Eboo Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Adam of the Road
Elizabeth Gray Vining

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Adam's Song
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Addicted to You
Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Adelaide: A Novel
Genevieve Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood
Edward M. Hallowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Adonais
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1821

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Advice to My Son
Peter Meinke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Affluenza
Thomas Naylor, John de Graaf, David Wann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Africa Kills Her Sun
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Afro-Latina
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

After
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

After
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

After Annie: A Novel
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

After I Do
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After The First Death
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

After the Last Border:Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
Jessica Goudeau

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

after the quake
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

After Twenty Years
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1906

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

After We Collided
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

After You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Again Later
Martha Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1966

Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Agricola
Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 98

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Ahimsa
Supriya Kelkar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2022

Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1851

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1981

Ain't No Makin It
Jay Macleod

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ajax
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Alabama Moon
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Al Capone Does My Homework
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Alcestis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1865

Ali Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Alive
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All about Love: Love Song to the Nation Book 1
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

All Adults Here
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All American Boys
Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Allegiant
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Allegory Of The Cave
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Illustr. Michelle Mee Nutter

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

All Fours
Miranda July

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024