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The Reason You Walk
Wab Kinew

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Recipe Box
Viola Shipman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Reckoning
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

The Recognitions
William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Record Keeper
Agnes Gomillion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Recovery Agent
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Recruit
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1706

The Rector of Justin
Louis Auchincloss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Red Address Book
Sofia Lundberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Red and the Black
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1895

The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Red Baron
Manfred von Richthofen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1917

The Red Book
Barbara Lehman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Red Book: Liber Novus
C.G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Redbreast
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Redeemer
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton (Alexander Seaton, #1)
S.G. MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Red-Haired Woman
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Red-Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #2)

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

The Red House Mystery
A.A. Milne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Red Hunter
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Red Lotus
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Red Notebook
Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken, Antoine Laurain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Red Pony
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1933

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel
Rick Riordan, Orpheus Collar

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Ida B. Wells

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

The Red Right Hand
Joel Townsley Rogers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Red Room
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1896

The Red Scrolls of Magic
Wesley Chu, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

The Red Sea Sharks (Tintin #19)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Red Umbrella
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Refugees
Herbert Read

Nonfiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1933

The Regrets
Amy Bonnaffons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Regulators
Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Rehearsal
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Reign of Wizardry
Jack Williamson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Reivers
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1746

The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Reluctant Widow
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Remainder
Alia Trabucco Zerán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
Barry N. Malzberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
Grantlee Kieza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon, #10)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Remnant
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Removed
Brandon Hobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Renegades of Pern
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Renunciations: Poems
Donika Kelly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

The Replacement
Brenna Yovanoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Report
Jessica Francis Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Report Card
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Reprieve
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Reptile Room
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Republic
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Republic of Imagination
Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3)
Scott Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Rescue
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Rescue (Dog Whisperer, #1)
Nicholas Edwards

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
Kate Andersen Brower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Residue Years
Mitchell S. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Resolution of Callie & Kayden
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Restaurant
Pamela M. Kelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Restaurant Critic's Wife
Elizabeth LaBan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Resurrectionist
James Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
E.B. Hudspeth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Retreat
Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Retreat of Western Liberalism

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Retribution of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Return
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Returned
Jason Mott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Return of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

The Return of the Dancing Master
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe
Stephen C. Meyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955