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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1903

Rebel
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle, #2)
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Rebel Belle
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Rebel Heart
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Rebel Heart (Dust Lands, #2)
Moira Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Rebel Heir
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Rebellion & In From the Cold (Serena & Ian) (The MacGregors, #0.1, #0.2)
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)
Alwyn Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Rebel Spring
Michelle Rowen, Morgan Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (American History)
Jackson Lears

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Reboot
Amy Tintera

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Reborn
Jaymin Eve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Rebound
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Recipe for a Perfect Wife
Karma Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Reckless
Lauren Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Reckless Girls: A Novel
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Reckless (Mirrorworld, #1)
Cornelia Funke, Oliver Latsch, Yngve Bjørn Berven

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Reclaimed
Jaymin Eve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future
Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, Steve Van Bockern, Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
G. Moxley Sorrel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Recursion
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red Alert (NYPD Red, #5)
James Patterson, Marshall Karp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red Azalea
Anchee Min

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
Sandra Dallas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Red Bones
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Redburn
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Red Cap
G. Clifton Wisler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Red Card
Daniel J. Hale, Matthew LaBrot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Isaac Babel

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1926

Redchapel
Mike Resnick

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

Red Clocks
Leni Zumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Red Country
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Red Doc>
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Dragon
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Vikram Chandra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
Vine Deloria Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Redeemed
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Redeemed (Dirty Air, #4)
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Redeemed (The Missing, #8)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Redeeming 6
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System
Jarrett Adams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Redefining realness: My path to womanhood, identity, love, & so much more
Janet Mock

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Redemption
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Redemption Ark
Chris Moore, Alastair Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Redemption in Indigo
Karen Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Redemption Road
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Redemptor (Raybearer, #2)
Jordan Ifueko

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Redgauntlet
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1824

Red Glove
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Redhead by the Side of the Road
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Red Kayak
Priscilla Cummings

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Red Leaves
Thomas H. Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Red Lily
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Red Mist
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Red Moon
Benjamin Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Rosemary Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker, #2)
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Red Rabbit
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan, #2)
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Red Rackham's Treasure (Tintin #12)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Red Riding Hood
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, David Leslie Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Red Rising
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Red River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine
Joanna Jolly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
Desmond Shum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Red Sails to Capri (Puffin Newberry Library)
Ann Weil

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1952

Red Scarf Girl
Ji-li Jiang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
Scott Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Redshirts
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Red Sky at Morning
Richard Bradford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Red Sky in Morning
Paul Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Sorghum
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Red: The Heroic Rescue
Ted Dekker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Redwall
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Red, White, and Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red, White, and Whole
Rajani LaRocca

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Red, White, Blue
Lea Carpenter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Red Widow (Red Widow, #1)
Alma Katsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reefer Madness
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People
Jack G. Shaheen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Reel (Hollywood Renaissance #1)
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021