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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
D.T. Suzuki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

An Irish Country Courtship (Irish Country #5)
Patrick Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country #1)
Patrick Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1995

Anita and Me
Meera Syal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xochitl Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An Italian Wife
Ann Hood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Anna And The Swallow Man
Gavriel Savit

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Annabel
Kathleen Winter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Anna Dressed In Blood
Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Anna In The Tropics
Nilo Cruz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Anna K: A Love Story (Anna K, #1)
Jenny Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

Annals of the Former World
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Anna O
Matthew Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Anna Of Byzantium
Tracy Barrett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Anna of the Five Towns (The Five Towns #2)
Arnold Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
Maurice Herzog

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

Anne Frank
Britannica Kids

Nonfiction | Novel | Published in 1947

Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance
Rian Verhoeven, Plym Peters, Tony Langham, Ruud van der Rol, Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Anne Frank Remembered
Miep Gies

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
Anne McCaffrey, Lela Dowling, Brynne Stephens, Cynthia Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Anne of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1909

Anne Of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1908

Anne of Ingleside
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1939

Anne of the Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1915

Anne of Windy Poplars
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1936

Anne's House of Dreams
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Annie and the Old One
Miska Miles

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1971

Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Annie's Ghosts
Steve Luxenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Annihilation of Caste
B. R. Ambedkar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
Kim Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Annus Mirabilis
Sally Ball

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

An Octoroon
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

An Old-Fashioned Girl
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1870

An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

An Ordinary Man
Paul Rusesabagina

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Nick Flynn

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Another Country
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Another Day
David Levithan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Another Day in the Death of America
Gary Younge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Fine Myth
Robert Lynn Asprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Another Life: A Memoir of Other People
Michael Korda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Answered Prayers
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Antelope Woman
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Anthem
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Anthills Of The Savannah
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Antichrista
Amélie Nothomb

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Antihero
Gregg Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Andrew Marantz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Anti-Stepbrother
Tijan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Antonietta
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Antonina (European Classics)
Evgeniya Tur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

An Unfinished Story
Boo Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

An Untamed State
Roxane Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

Anxious People
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Any Bitter Thing
Monica Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Anybody Out There?
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Any Day with You
Mae Respicio

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Any Dream Will Do
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Any Duchess Will Do
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Any Human Heart
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Anyone But You
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Any Sign of Life
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Any Small Goodness
Tony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Anything But Typical
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Anything You Want
Derek Sivers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Any Way the Wind Blows
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Anywhere You Run
Wanda M. Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Any Which Wall
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Apart at the Seams
Marie Bostwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014