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An Outpost Of Progress
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

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

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

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

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Charles B. Dew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

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

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

Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Bronislaw Malinowski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Ariel
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Arrival at Santos
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

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

Aru Shah and the End of Time
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

As Good As Dead
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Ashes
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ash Wednesday
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ask The Dust
John Fante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

As Nature Made Him
John Colapinto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

At Home
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine, Rachel S.F. Heller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

At the ’Cadian Ball
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At the Galleria Shopping Mall
Tony Hoagland

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

At the Gym
Mark Doty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

At the Mountains of Madness
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

At the Sea-Side
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1913

Aubade
Major Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Aubade with Burning City
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Auggie & Me
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Aura
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ava's Man
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Ave Maria
Frank O'Hara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Abolition of Man
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Adding Machine
Elmer Rice

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1929

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1884

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1892

The Adventures of Ulysses
Bernard Evslin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Age Of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Age Of Reason
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1794

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Albatross
Charles Baudelaire, Transl. Eli Siegel

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1861

The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Ainissa Ramirez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Alchemyst
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

The Alice Network
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Almond Trees
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985