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A Rage for Order
Robert F. Worth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
Chester B. Himes, Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1973

A Reaper at the Gates
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Redbird Christmas
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Red Death
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Red Herring Without Mustard
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

A Reformation Debate: John Calvin and Jacopo Sadoleto
John Calvin, Jacopo Sadoleto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1539

A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Remarkable Woman
Anne Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A Renegade History of the United States
Thaddeus Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

A Replacement Life
Boris Fishman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Reporter's Life
Walter Cronkite

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763 - 1789
James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1982

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Marianne Williamson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
Charles Royster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles, #4)
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

A Rip in Heaven
Jeanine Cummins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)
Abir Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa, Transl. Martin Brown, Transl. Risa Kobayashi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A River of Royal Blood (A River of Royal Blood, #1)
Amanda Joy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1976

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Rogue by Any Other Name
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Rogue of One's Own
Evie Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Rogue's Life
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

A Room Full of Bones
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Room with a View
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

A Room with a View (Level 6)
E.M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

A Rose for Ecclesiastes
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1967

A Rover's Story
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

A Royal Pain
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Ruin of Roses
K.F. Breene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Rule Against Murder
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Rulebook for Arguments
Anthony Weston

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1986

A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Rabbit at Rest
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Rabbit Cake
Annie Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1944

Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor's Story
David Shurter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Rabbit Hole: Play
David Lindsay-Abaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Rabbit Redux
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
Terry Miles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Race and Reunion
David W. Blight

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Race for Profit
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Race in America
Matthew Desmond, Mustafa Emirbayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Race Matters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Race to Incarcerate
Marc Mauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Marc Mauer, Sabrina Jones

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2013

Race to the Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Rachel's Holiday
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
Michael Omi, Howard Winant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Racso and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #2)
Jane Leslie Conly, Leonard Lubin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Radar Girls
Sara Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Radiance of Tomorrow
Ishmael Beah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Radiant Angel (John Corey, #7)
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Radiant Shadows
Melissa Marr

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Tara Brach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Radical Candor
Kim Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Radical Evolution
Joel Garreau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
David Platt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Radioactive Boy Scout
Ken Silverstein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Radio Golf
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Radio Silence
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Raft of Stars
Andrew J. Graff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Rag and Bone (Rag and Bone, #1)
K.J. Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Ragdoll (Fawkes and Baxter, #1)
Daniel Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Rage
Bob Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Rage Against the Dying (Brigid Quinn, #1)
Becky Masterman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Rage and Ruin
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Rage of a Demon King
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Rage of Angels
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Ragged Company
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1868

Ragnarok
A.S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Raid
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Raiders Night
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1966

Railsea
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Rain
Don Paterson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Rain (Blackwater, #6)
Michael McDowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Rainbow Boys
Alex Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Rainbow Valley
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1919

Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy, #5)
Adrian McKinty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Raining Sardines
Enrique Flores-Galbis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Rain of Gold
Victor Villaseñor

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018