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Aram's Choice
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Arboreality
Rebecca Campbell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2022

Arcadia
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

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 1962

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

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1979

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Arc of Justice
Kevin Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Arctic Summer
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Arden of Faversham
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1592

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #10)
Louise Rennison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Are We Rome?
Cullen Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Are You in the House Alone?
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Are You Sleeping
Kathleen Barber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
Nuala O'Faolain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Bronislaw Malinowski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Argylle
Elly Conway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Ariadne
Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (Arlo Finch, #1)
John August

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Armada
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

Armageddon Summer
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life
Steven E. Landsburg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
Elizabeth R. Varon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Armor
John Steakley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1894

Around the World: A Graphic Novel
Matt Phelan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1872

Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Arrow's Fall
Mercedes Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Arrow's Flight
Mercedes Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Arrows of Rain
Okey Ndibe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Arrugas
Paco Roca

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

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin, #2)
Maurice Leblanc

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

Arsenic and Adobo
Mia P. Manansala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Art and Fear
Ted Orland, David Bayles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Art as Experience
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

Art as Technique
Victor Shklovsky

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1916

Art as Therapy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Artemis
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1993

Arthur & George
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Arthurian Romances
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1170

Arthur Miller
Christopher Bigsby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Arthur of Albion
John Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Artificial Condition
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Arts of the Contact Zone
Mary Louise Pratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Aru Shah and the End of Time
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

As a Man Thinketh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902

As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

As Bright As Heaven
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ascend
Amanda Hocking

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Fanbook 3
Miya Kazuki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

As for Me and My House
Sinclair Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

As Good As Dead
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Ash
Malinda Lo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Ash and Quill (The Great Library, #3)
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Ashes
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ashes, Ashes (Ashes, Ashes, #1)
Jo Treggiari

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Ashes in the Snow
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ashes of Chaos (Legacy of the Nine Realms, #2)
Amelia Hutchins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ashes Of Roses
Mary Jane Auch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Ashes to Ashes
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Ashfall
Mike Mullin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Ash Princess
Laura Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Asian American Dreams
Helen Zia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires
Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ask For It (Georgian, #1)
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006