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On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

On Solitude
Michel de Montaigne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1580

On Sparta
Plutarch, Richard J.A. Talbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 100

On Stranger Tides
Tim Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

On Such A Full Sea
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

On Swift Horses
Shannon Pufahl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1937

On the Beach
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Louise Rennison

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

On the Come Up
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females
Isaac Baker Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1866

On the Damned Human Race
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave
Candace Fleming

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2012

On the Devil's Court
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

On the Edge
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership
Alison Levine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

On the Far Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

On the Fence (Old Town Shops, #2)
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

On The Grasshopper And The Cricket
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult

On the Heights of Despair
Emil M. Cioran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

On the Improvement of Understanding
Baruch Spinoza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1667

On the Incarnation
Athanasius of Alexandria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 318

On the Island
Tracey Garvis Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

On the Loose
Renny Russell, Terry Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

On the Marble Cliffs
Ernst Jünger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

On The Natural Faculties
Galen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 200

On The Nature Of Things
Lucretius

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1910

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Origin of Language
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1866

On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1859

On The Pleasure of Hating
William Hazlitt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1826

On the Prowl
Karen Chance, Patricia Briggs, Sunny, Eileen Wilks

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2007

On the Religious Life
Prosper Guéranger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

On the Soul
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On the Sublime
Longinus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 100

On the Suffering of the World
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1850

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

On the Way to the Wedding
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

On the Wings of Heroes
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

On Tour
Zoe Sugg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

On Trails
Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

On Truth
Harry G. Frankfurt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

On Violence
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

On War
Carl von Clausewitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

On Wings of Eagles
Ken Follett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

On Wings of Song
Thomas M. Disch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

On Witchcraft (Dover Occult)
Cotton Mather

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1692

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Onyx (Lux, #2)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
Larry Levin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Opal
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

Open and Shut (Andy Carpenter, #1)
David Rosenfelt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Open Book
Jessica Simpson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Open City
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Open Heart
Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Open House
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Lauren Slater

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Openly Straight (Openly Straight, #1)
Bill Konigsberg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Open Season
Linda Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Open Secrets
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5
Stella Rimington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Open Throat
Henry Hoke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Operation Do-Over
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Operation Redwood
S. Terrell French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Operation Sisterhood
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Ophelia After All
Racquel Marie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Ophie's Ghosts
Justina Ireland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Opium and Absinthe
Lydia Kang

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Op Oloop
Juan Filloy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Opposite of Always
Justin A. Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Opposition
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730
Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, I. Bernard Cohen

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1704

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Walter J. Ong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1
Ichigo Takano

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Orange World and Other Stories
Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

Orbital
Samantha Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023