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RoomHate
Penelope Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Roomies
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Roommates: My Grandfather's Story
Max Apple

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Room Service
Maren Stoffels

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Room to Dream
Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Root Magic
Eden Royce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Brenda Maddox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Rosa Parks: A Life
Douglas Brinkley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Rosaura A Las Diez
Marco Denevi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Rose Daughter
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2)
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1876

Rose in Chains
Julie Soto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Rose Madder
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

Roses Are Red
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Roses of May (The Collector, #2)
Dot Hutchison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Rose Under Fire
Elizabeth Wein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
Tade Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Rot and Ruin
Jonathan Maberry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Rot & Ruin
Jonathan Maberry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Rotters
Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Rouge: A Novel
Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Rough Country
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Roughing It
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Lara Prior-Palmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Round the Moon
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (Rowan Hood, #1)
Nancy Springer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Rowan of Rin (Rowan of Rin, #1)
Emily Rodda

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Rowdy
Jay Crownover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1724

Roxy
Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Royal Beatings
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Royal Blood
Ellen Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Royal Elite Epilogue
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Royal Flash (The Flashman Papers, #2)
George MacDonald Fraser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Royal Holiday
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Royally Matched
Emma Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Royally Not Ready
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Royally Screwed
Emma Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Royals
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Rubbernecker
Belinda Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Ruby Bridges
Kio Herrera

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Published in 1998

Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion
K. Tempest Bradford

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Ruby Red
Transl. Anthea Bell, Kerstin Gier

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Rucker Park Setup
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Ruckus
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Rudin
Ivan Turgenev, Isabel Florence Hapgood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

Rufus M. (The Moffats, #3)
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Ruin
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Ruin and Rising
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Ruined
Amy Tintera

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Ruin (Ruin, #1)
Rachel Van Dyken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Ruins
Achy Obejas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Ruins (Pathfinder, #2)
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Rule
Jay Crownover

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Rule Britannia
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Ruled Britannia
Harry Turtledove

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Rule of the Bone
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Rule of Two
Drew Karpyshyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Rules
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Rules For Old Men Waiting
Peter R. Pouncey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Rules for the Direction of the Mind
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1619

Rules for Vanishing
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Rules of Attraction
Simone Elkeles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Rules of Sociological Method
Émile Durkheim

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

Rules of the Road
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
Francesca Marciano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Rumble Fish
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

Rumors
Anna Godbersen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Rumors of Spring
Richard Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Rumour Has it
Jill Mansell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
Liesl Shurtliff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Run
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Runaway
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Runaway Groomsman
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Runaway Love
Melanie Harlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Runaway Ralph
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy
Adrian Alphona, Brian K. Vaughan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Runaway Twin
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Run: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Illustr. Nate Powell, Illustr. L. Fury

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2021

Run, Boy, Run
Uri Orlev

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Runemaker (Margit Andersson, #1)
Tiina Nunnally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Run for Your Life
Michael Ledwidge, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Run Me to Earth
Paul Yoon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Runner
Robert Newton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005