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And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students
Miles Corwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

And The Band Played On
Randy Shilts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

And the Birds Rained Down
Jocelyne Saucier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And Then
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

And Then There's Margaret
Carolyn Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

And There He Kept Her
Joshua Moehling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
Jacques Lusseyran

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1963

And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Henderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

And We Stay
Jenny Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

An Eagle in the Snow
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Anecdotes of Destiny
Isak Dinesen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

An Echo in the Darkness
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

An Echo in Time: Atlantis (The Ancient Future, #2)
Traci Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)
James Islington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

An Education in Malice
S.T. Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

An Elephant in the Garden
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

An Emotion of Great Delight
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

An Empire for Slavery
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

An Enchantment of Ravens
Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1882

An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1751

An Equal Music
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1690

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1798

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
Elizabeth McCracken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition
James Lipton

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

An Experiment with Time
J.W. Dunne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League, #1)
Alyssa Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Eye for an Eye (William Warwick #7)
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Angel
Elizabeth Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Angel Down
Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Angelfall
Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Angel Falls
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angelfire (Angelfire, #1)
Courtney Allison Moulton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Angel Of Greenwood
Randi Pink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Angel on the Square (Angel on the Square, #1)
Gloria Whelan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Angels
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Angels and Demons
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angels' Blood (Guild Hunter, #1)
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Angels Fall
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Angels Flight
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Angels: God's Secret Agents
Billy Graham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Tony Kushner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Anger Is a Gift
Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Angus Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Angola Janga: Uma História de Palmares
Marcelo d'Salete

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Angry God
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Angry River
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Louise Rennison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

An Honest Lie
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

An Ice Cold Grave
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
Danny Gregory

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

An Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

An Imaginary Life
David Malouf

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1978

Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Temple Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Animal's People
Indra Sinha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Animal Wise
Virginia Morell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

An Immense World (young Readers Edition)
Ed Yong, Illustr. Rebecca Mills

Nonfiction | Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2025

Animorphs (12 Vol. Set)
K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Adult

An Incomplete Revenge
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

An Indian Winter or With the Indians in the Rockies
James Willard Schultz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jean Mendoza, Debbie Reese

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2019

An Innocent Client
Scott Pratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

An Inquiry concerning the Authenticity of an Alleged Portrait of Roger Williams
Sidney Smith Rider

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Edwin Cannan, Adam Smith, George J. Stigler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1776

An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

An Instance of the Fingerpost
Iain Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1960

An Introduction to Metaphysics
Henri Bergson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1903