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And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

And the People Stayed Home
Kitty O’Meara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1766

An Elephant in the Garden
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

An Encounter
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1913

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1882

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

An Episode of War
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1690

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
John Dryden

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1668

An Essay on Man
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1734

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1798

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Angel Of Greenwood
Randi Pink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Angels and Demons
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Anger Is a Gift
Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Animal's People
Indra Sinha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Anna In The Tropics
Nilo Cruz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

Anna O
Matthew Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Anne of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1909

Anne Of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1908

Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Annihilation of Caste
B. R. Ambedkar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

An Obstacle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1890

An Ordinary Man
Paul Rusesabagina

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Country
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

An Outpost Of Progress
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Anthem
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Antigone
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Anxious People
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

anyone lived in a pretty how town
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Anything But Typical
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A&P
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

Apeirogon
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Apex Hides the Hurt
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Apollo
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Apollo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Apology
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Apple: Skin to the Core
Eric Gansworth

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2020

Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Approach of Winter
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

April Morning
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Araby
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

Arcadia
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Arcadia
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Archer's Voice
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Arc of Justice
Kevin Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Arden of Faversham
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1592

Areopagitica
John Milton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1644

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Are you the new person drawn toward me?
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Ariadne
Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ariel
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1872

Arrival at Santos
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Arsenic and Adobo
Mia P. Manansala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Ars Poetica
Horace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1991

Ars Poetica?
Czesław Miłosz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968