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All the Names
José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

All the President's Men
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Rivers
Dorit Rabinyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All These Beautiful Strangers
Elizabeth Klehfoth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All These Worlds
Dennis E. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

All the Single Ladies
Rebecca Traister

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

All the Stars in the Heavens
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

All the Truth That's in Me
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Bryn Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Ways We Said Goodbye
Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All the Weyrs of Pern
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
David Gessner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

All the World's a Stage
Gretchen Woelfle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

All the Young Dudes
MsKingBean89

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

All Things Cease to Appear
Elizabeth Brundage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All Things Considered
G.K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
Christina Soontornvat

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

All This Belongs to Me
Petra Hůlová

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All This I Will Give to You
Dolores Redondo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All This Time
Mikki Daughtry, Rachael Lippincott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

All Three Stooges
Erica S. Perl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

All Together Dead
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ed. Katharine K. Wilkinson

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All We Have Left
Wendy Mills

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

All We Know
Simon French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Nicole Chung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Alexander O. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

All Your Perfects
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All Your Twisted Secrets
Diana Urban

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Almanac of the Dead
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Almayer's Folly
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

Almond
Won-pyung Sohn, Transl. Joosun Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Almost American Girl
Robin Ha

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2020

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
John Ferling

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Tanya Lee Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Almost a Woman
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Almost Heaven
Judith McNaught

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Almost Home
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Almost, Maine
John Cariani

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Almost Transparent Blue
Ryū Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Aloft
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Alone
Megan E. Freeman

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

Alone (Detective D.D. Warren, #1)
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Alone Yet Not Alone: The Story of Barbara and Regina Leininger
Tracy Michele Leininger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Along Came a Dog
Meindert DeJong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Along Came a Spider
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Along the Infinite Sea (Schuyler Sisters, #3)
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alpha
Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alphabet of Thorn
Patricia A. McKillip

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Alpha & Omega
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Richard K.Morgan, Richard K. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Altered States
Paddy Chayefsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

alterNatives
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Always Coming Home
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Always Mine (Honey Mountain, #1)
Laura Pavlov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Always Only You
Chloe Liese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Always Running
Luis Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Always the Last to Know
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was in June
Clive James

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Always You
Kirsty Moseley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Amadeus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Amadis of Gaul
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1508

Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Amari And The Great Game
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Amazing Grace Adams
Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Amazonia
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Amber and Clay
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2021

Ambiguous Adventure
Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Ambivalent Conquests
Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Ambush
James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ambush (Sydney Rose Parnell, #3)
Barbara Nickless

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
Mark Steyn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

America: A Narrative History (Brief Eleventh Edition) (Vol. Combined Volume)
David E. Shi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

America Day by Day
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948

America is in the Heart
Carlos Bulosan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010