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Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Ordeal by Innocence
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Order to Kill
Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Ordinary Affects
Kathleen Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Díaz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ordinary Hazards
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2019

Ordinary Human Failings
Megan Nolan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Ordinary People
Judith Guest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Oread
H.D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Oreo
Fran Ross, Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Orestes
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 409

Orfeo
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life
Jason Selk, Tom Bartow, Matthew Rudy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orientalism
Edward Said

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and 'The Mystic East'
Richard E. King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Orientation: And Other Stories
Daniel Orozco

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Orient Express
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Origin
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Jack N. Rakove

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Original Sin (Personal Demons, #2)
Lisa Desrochers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Origin in Death
J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Origins
L.J. Smith, Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Origins of an Academy Bully
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860
Lacy K. Ford Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
David Cannadine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Oroonoko
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1688

Orphan #8
Kim Van Alkemade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orphan Island
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Orphan Monster Spy (Orphan Monster Spy, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Orphan Number Eight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orphan of Asia
Chuo-liu Wu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
Andrea Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Orphan X (Orphan X, #1)
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Gregg Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Orpheus and Eurydice
Ovid, Virgil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
Michael Schulman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Os Maias
Eça de Queirós

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Other Birds
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Other Half
Sarah Rayner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Louis D. Brandeis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1914

Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance
John Kay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Otherworld (Last Reality, #1)
Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Otis Spofford (Ellen & Otis, #2)
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1953

Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1888

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1
Bisco Hatori

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War
Lisa Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian

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

Our Castle by the Sea
Lucy Strange

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Our Chemical Hearts
Krystal Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Our Country Friends
Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Our Crooked Hearts
Melissa Albert

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Our Daily Bread
Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Our Dark Duet
Victoria Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle S. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire Fuller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Guys
Bernard Lefkowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Our House
Louise Candlish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Illustr. Peter Mueller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Ourika
Claire de Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1823

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D. Putnam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Kind of Traitor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Our Lady of 121st Street
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Our Lady of Darkness
Fritz Leiber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Rebecca Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
Will Durant

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1935

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002