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As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

At an Inn
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1892

Athlete Vs. Mathlete
W.C. Mack

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

At Home
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

Atlanta Exposition Speech
Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1895

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Atmosphere: A Love Story
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel
David Diop, Transl. Anna Moschovakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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
Rachel S.F. Heller, Amir Levine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Attack Of The Black Rectangles
A.S King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

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

Audition
Katie Kitamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Audre & Bash are Just Friends
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Auggie & Me
R. J. Palacio

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

Auguries of Innocence
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Augustown: A Novel
Kei Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Martin E. P. Seligman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Authority: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1791

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

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

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Average Waves in Unprotected Waters
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Awkward
Svetlana Chmakova

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Axolotl
Julio Cortázar

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

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 Absent Author
Ron Roy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Academy
T. Z. Layton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A. J. Baime

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Address
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deirdre Mask

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Amina Al-Sirafi
S. A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1884

The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1883

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Roger Lancelyn Green

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1892

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1876

The Adventures of Ulysses
Bernard Evslin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Craig Whitlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Agony and the Ecstasy: A Novel of Michelangelo
Irving Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Albatross
Charles Baudelaire, Transl. Eli Siegel

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1861

The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Alchemist
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1610

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 Alienist
Caleb Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Almond Trees
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Ambitious Guest
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

The Amen Corner
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The American Crisis
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1776

The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
Jim Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The American Roommate Experiment
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The American Scholar
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1837

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Tracie McMillan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The America Play
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Anomaly
Transl. Adriana Hunter, Hervé Le Tellier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021