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Agent 6 (Leo Demidov, #3)
Tom Rob Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Agent Running in the Field
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Agent to the Stars
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Age of Anger
Pankaj Mishra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Age of Iron
John Maxwell Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Age of Myth
Michael J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Age of Swords
Marc Simonetti, Michael J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Agesilaus
Xenophon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 360

Agincourt
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Agnes and the Hitman
Bob Mayer, Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Agnes of God
John Pielmeier

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Agricola
Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 98

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Ahimsa
Supriya Kelkar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Ahsoka
E.K. Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Ah, Wilderness!
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934

Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds

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

Ain't No Makin It
Jay Macleod

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

Air
Monica Roe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Air Awakens
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Airframe
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Airhead
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Airman
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Airport
Arthur Hailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ajax
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Ajay and the Mumbai Sun
Varsha Shah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Aké: The Years of Childhood
Wole Soyinka

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Akin
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Akira, Vol. 1
Satoshi Kon, Katsuhiro Otomo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Alabama Moon
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Alamut
Judith Tarr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1983

Alan Turing: The Enigma
Andrew Hodges, Douglas R. Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Alaska
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Albert and the Whale
Philip Hoare

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Albert Camus: A Biography
Herbert R. Lottman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Albion's Seed
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

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
Katharine Beutner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Alchemy of the Mind
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
Rory Sutherland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Alebrijes
Donna Barba Higuera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America
Teri Kanefield

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Alexander Pope: A Life
Maynard Mack

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1968

Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Alex, Approximately
Jenn Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Alex Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Alex Cross, Run
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Alex Cross's Trial
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
Hugh Brogan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Alex & Me
Irene Pepperberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Alex Rider: Secret Weapon (Alex Rider, #12)
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2019

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Alfred Kazin's Journals
Richard M. Cook

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Algorithms To Live By
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ali and Nino
Kurban Said

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

Alibis
André Aciman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Alice
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Stacy A. Cordery

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Alice in Wonderland
Rene Cloke, Lewis Carroll, Jane Carruth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Alice James: A Biography
Jean Strouse

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1865

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Ali Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Alien
Alan Dean Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Alienated
Melissa Landers

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
Timothy P. Carney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Alien Hearts
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Ali's Pretty Little Lies (Pretty Little Liars, #0.5)
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

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 About Sam (Sam Krupnik, #1)
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

All Adults Here
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All Alone
Claire Huchet Bishop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1953

All American Boys
Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All-American Girl (All-American Girl, #1)
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row
James Patterson, Alex Abramovich, Mike Harvkey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Allan Quatermain (Allan Quatermain, #2)
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887