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Allan's Wife
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

All Around the Town
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA

All But My Life: A Memoir
Gerda Weissmann Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

All Clear
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Allegiance
Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

Allegiant
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Illustr. Michelle Mee Nutter

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

All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All for Love
John Dryden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

All God's Chillun Got Wings
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

All God's Dangers
Theodore Rosengarten

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

All Good Children
Catherine Austen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

All Good People Here
Ashley Flowers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All Grown Up
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All He Ever Wanted
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

All Her Little Secrets
Wanda M. Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All I Asking for Is My Body
Milton Murayama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Allie and Bea
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Allies
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Allies of the Night
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Alligator Bayou
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

All In
Emma Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All Is Not Forgotten
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All I Want Is Everything
Cecily Von Ziegesar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

All Joy and No Fun
Jennifer Senior

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

All Mortal Flesh (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #5)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

All My Knotted-Up Life
Beth Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
Beth Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

All My Sons
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

All-of-a-Kind Family
Sydney Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

All of the Above
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

All of the Women of the Bible
Edith Deen

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1955

All of Us Villains
C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

All Our Kin
Carol B. Stack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All Our Shimmering Skies
Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All Our Wrong Todays
Elan Mastai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All Our Yesterdays
Joel H. Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

All Over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

All Over Creation
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
Elie Mystal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

All Passion Spent
Vita Sackville-West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

All Rhodes Lead Here
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
Leslie Connor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Armstrong Sperry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1935

All's Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

All She Was Worth
Miyuki Miyabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

All Shook Up
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
Michael Patrick MacDonald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

All-Star Superman
Grant Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

All-Star Superman, Vol. 1
Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

All's Well
Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

All Systems Red
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2017

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
Orlando Whitfield

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

All That I Am
Anna Funder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Darragh Mckeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Marshall Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

All That Man Is
David Szalay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All That Remains
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

All That’s Left in the World
Erik J. Brown

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

All That's Left Unsaid
Tracey Lien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All That Work and Still No Boys (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
Kathryn Ma

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

All the Answers
Michael Kupperman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Beautiful Lies
Peter Swanson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

All the Breaking Waves
Kerry Lonsdale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All The Bright Places
Jennifer Niven

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All the Broken Pieces
Ann E. Burg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

All the Broken Places
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All the Colors of Night (Fogg Lake, #2)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

All the Dangerous Things
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All the Devils are Here
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All the Feels
Olivia Dade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Donald Stratton, Ken Gire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Impossible Things
Lindsay Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

All the King's Men

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

All the Lies
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

All the Little Raindrops
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All the Living
C.E. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

All the Lonely People
Mike Gayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All The Lovely Bad Ones
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

All the Lovers in the Night
Sam Bett, David Boyd, Mieko Kawakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

All the Missing Girls
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016