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On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

On Justice Power and Human Nature
Transl. Paul Woodruff, Thucydides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

Only the Beautiful
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

On Mystic Lake
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

On Photography
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

On Revolution
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

On Such A Full Sea
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1937

On the Beach
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

On the Come Up
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

On the Devil's Court
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

On the Equality of the Sexes
Judith Sargent Murray

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1790

On the Far Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

On the Move
Thom Gunn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

On The Nature Of Things
Lucretius

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1910

On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1859

On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

On the Shortness of Life
Seneca

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 49

On the Soul
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

On the Sublime
Longinus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 100

On the train the woman standing
Claudia Rankine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

On Turning Ten
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

On War
Carl von Clausewitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Open City
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Operation Sisterhood
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Oranges
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Oration on the Dignity of Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1496

Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ordinary People
Judith Guest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Orestes
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 409

Orientalism
Edward Said

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Oroonoko
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1688

Orphan Island
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Other Birds
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Otherwise
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Our Country Friends
Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Our Declaration
Danielle S. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Ourika
Claire de Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1823

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D. Putnam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Our Souls At Night
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Town
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Our Violent Ends
Chloe Gong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Outlander
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Outlawed
Anna North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope Pérez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Out Of Nowhere
Maria Padian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Out of the Easy
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Out of This Furnace
Thomas Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Out, Out—
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

Ox Cart Man
Donald Hall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Oxygen
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005