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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Liz Cheney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

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Wesley King

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

October
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

October in the Chair
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Odder
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Odds Against Tomorrow
Nathaniel Rich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1768

Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode on Melancholy
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

Ode to Dirt
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Ode to Psyche
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode to Teachers
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode to Walt Whitman
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Odour of Chrysanthemums
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Oedipus
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 60

Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 401

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Mawi Asgedom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2001

Off to the Races
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Of Love And Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1937

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
William Bradford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1651

Of the Threads that Connect the Stars
Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oh, William
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
Stephanie Storey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Oil on Water
Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1830

Old Love
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Old Man at the Bridge
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

Old Man's War
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Old Pond
Basho

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1686

Old School
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Old Yeller
Fred Gipson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Olga Dies Dreaming
Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

Olive's Ocean
Kevin Henkes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Olivetti
Allie Millington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Omar Rising
Aisha Saeed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

On Anger
Rage Hezekiah

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

On a Quiet Street
Seraphina Nova Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

On Beauty
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

On Being Brought from Africa to America
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

On Being Sane in Insane Places
David L. Rosenhan

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1973

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Anthony Fauci

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Once
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Once by the Pacific
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Once More to the Lake
E. B. White

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Once There Were Wolves
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Once Upon a River
Diane Setterfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Once Upon a Time
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel
Quentin Tarantino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Upon a Wardrobe
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Once We Were Brothers
Ronald H. Balson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

On Christian Doctrine
Augustine of Hippo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On Death and Dying
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

On Dreams
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

One Amazing Thing
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One by One
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

One by One
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

One Came Home
Amy Timberlake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

One Dark Window
Rachel Gillig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

One Day
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

One Day in December
Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Foot in Eden
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

One for the Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

One Friday Morning
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1952

One! Hundred! Demons!
Lynda Barry

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2002

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
Kate Kennedy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Scott Turow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

One Native Life
Richard Wagamese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

One Of Ours
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922