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Addicted for Now
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Addicted to You
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Addicted to You (ADDICTED SERIES)
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Adelaide: A Novel
Genevieve Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Adjustment Day
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Admiring Silence
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Admission
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Adolphe
Benjamin Constant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1816

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6)
Sue Townsend

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2004

Adrift: A Mer Cavallo Mystery
Micki Browning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
Steven Callahan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1986

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

Adultery
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Adventures Among Books
Andrew Lang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Adventures with Waffles
Maria Parr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Adventure Time, Vol. 1
Ryan North

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Advertisements for Myself
Norman Mailer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

Advice for a Young Investigator (Mit Press)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1897

Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent)
Allen Drury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W.B. Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Aesop's Fables
Aesop

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 620

Affinity
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Affliction
Laurell K. Hamilton, Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Affluenza
John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Afghanistan
Alex Ullmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Aflame
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

African Europeans: An Untold History
Olivette Otélé

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

After
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

After Alice
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Anna
Alex Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Annie: A Novel
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Afterburn
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

After Darkness
Christine Piper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

After Death
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

After Ever Happy (After, #4)
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

After Glow (Ghost Hunters, #2)
Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

After I Do
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

After I'm Gone
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Afterland
Lauren Beukes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Afterlife
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After Lunch with Frank O'Hara
Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Aftermath
Clara Kensie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Aftermath (Star Wars: Aftermath, #1)
Chuck Wendig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Me Comes the Flood
Sarah Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Afternoon of the Elves
Janet Taylor Lisle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House, #6)
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Afterparties
Anthony Veasna So

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2021

After Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

After That Night (Will Trent, #11)
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

After the Crash
Michel Bussi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

After the Dancing Days
Margaret I. Rostkowski

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

After the End
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

After the Fire
Will Hill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

After The First Death
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

After the Flood
Kassandra Montag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

After the Music Stopped
Alan S. Blinder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

After the Night
Linda Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

After the Rain
Norma Fox Mazer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

After the Snow
S. D. Crockett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

After the Woods
Kim Savage

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

After This
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Afterward
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1910

After We Collided
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

After We Fell (After, #3)
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Afterworlds
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

After You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After You'd Gone
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Again, But Better
Christine Riccio

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Again, Rachel
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Against All Enemies
Richard A. Clarke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
Alex Kershaw

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Against Method
Paul Karl Feyerabend

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Against Nature
Joris-Karl Huysmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Against the Tide
Elizabeth Camden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist
Jenn Budd

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Again the Magic
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Agatha Christie
Gillian Gill

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Agency
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agenda 21
Glenn Beck, Harriet Parke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition)
John W. Kingdon

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1984