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American Rust: A Novel
Philipp Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

American Scripture
Pauline Maier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Edmund S. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

American Sniper
Jim DeFelice

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["I lock you in..."]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight ...”]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

American Street
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

American War
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

America's First Daughter
Laura Kamoie, Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

America the Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

Amerika: The Missing Person
Transl. Willa Muir, Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Amina's Voice
Hena Khan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Among School Children
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Among School Children
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Amongst Women
John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Among the Betrayed
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
Max Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Among the Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Among the Impostors
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Amoretti XXXV: "My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize"
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Academy for Liars
Alexis Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An Actor Prepares
Constantin Stanislavski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

An Agony. As Now.
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Analects of Confucius
Confucius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country
Shana Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

An American Marriage
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

An American Sunrise
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

An Ancient Gesture
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

An Anonymous Girl: A Novel
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Anathema
Keri Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

And of Clay Are We Created
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1989

Andrew Carnegie And The Rise Of Big Business
Harold C. Livesay

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1975

And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students
Miles Corwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

And The Band Played On
Randy Shilts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

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 Criticism
Alexander Pope

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1711

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

Angelfall
Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Angel Of Greenwood
Randi Pink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Angels and Demons
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Tony Kushner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Anger Is a Gift
Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

An Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Animal Farm
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals
Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Animal's People
Indra Sinha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Jean Mendoza, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Debbie Reese

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2019

An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
Alex Tresniowski, Laura Schroff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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