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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Aura
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

Au Revoir Crazy European Chick
Joe Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
Amie Kaufman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1863

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

Aurora Rising
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Aurora's End
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklós Nyiszli, Tibère Kremer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Auschwitz and After
Charlotte Delbo

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Austenland
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Austerlitz
Winfried Georg Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Martin E. P. Seligman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Authority: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Autobiography
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1873

Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1791

Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1821

Autoboyography
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Autonomous
Annalee Newitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Autopsy
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Autumn Journal
Louis MacNeice

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Avalanche!
An Rutgers van der Loeff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Avalon High
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Ava's Man
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow, Part 1 (Smoke and Shadow, #1)
Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 1
Michael Dante DiMartino, Gurihiru, Bryan Konietzko, Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 1 (The Promise, #1)
Gene Luen Yang, Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Part 1
Michael Dante DiMartino, Gurihiru, Bryan Konietzko, Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Avengers of the New World
Laurent Dubois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Avoiding Commitment
K.A. Linde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Avoiding Responsibility
K.A. Linde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Awake and Dreaming
Kit Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Awake at Dawn
C.C. Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Awaken
Katie Kacvinsky

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Awakened
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Awakening
Sharon Bolton, S. J. Bolton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Awakenings
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Tony Robbins, Anthony Robbins, Frederick L. Covan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Away
Amy Bloom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Awful Auntie
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Awkward
Svetlana Chmakova

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Axel
Harper Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Axiom's End
Lindsay Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Axis (Spin, #2)
Robert Charles Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Aya (Aya, #1)
Marguerite Abouet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Ayana
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Aye, and Gomorrah
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

Ayesha at Last
Uzma Jalaluddin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Azadi
Arundhati Roy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The A.B.C. Murders
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Abduction (Theodore Boone, #2)
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Abolition of Man
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

The Absent Author
Ron Roy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Absent One
Jussi Adler-Olsen, K.E. Semmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Absolute at Large
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Absolutist
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Abysmal Brute
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Accident
Linwood Barclay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Accidental
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Accidental Apprentice
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Accidental Asian
Eric Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)
Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Accident Season
Moira Fowley-Doyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Acharnians
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 425

The Act of Love
Howard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Actual : A Novella
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Adding Machine
Elmer Rice

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1929

The Address
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deirdre Mask

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Adjacent
Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—the Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
Walter R. Borneman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Adolescent (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Adulterants
Joe Dunthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

The Adventure of the Dancing Men (Stories from the return of Sherlock Holmes)
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-13)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1923

The Adventure of the German Student
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1824

The Adventure of the Speckled Band and Other Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
S. A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter
John Crittenden Duval

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1870

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Thornton W. Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Adventures of China Iron
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017