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The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

The One And Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The One and Only Ruby
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The One Day You Were My Husband
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Marianne Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The One-In-A-Million Boy
Monica Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Only News I Know
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

The Only One Left
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Only Road
Alexandra Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Only Woman in the Room
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Open Boat
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

The Open Window
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Chip Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Origin of Others
Toni Morrison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1884

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Robert B. Marks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Thomas J. Sugrue

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Orphanage by the Lake
Daniel G. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Ellen Marie Wiseman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Orphan of Ellis Island
Elvira Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Orphan's Tale
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Other Americans
Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Other Einstein: A novel
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Other Foot
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

The Other Mrs.
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
Maya Shankar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Other Side of the Bridge
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Other Side of the Sky
Farah Ahmedi, Tamim Ansary

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Other Side of Truth
Beverley Naidoo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Andrés Reséndez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Other Two
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

The Other Valley
Scott Alexander Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Other Woman
Sandie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Bret Harte

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1869

The Outside Circle
Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Transl. Kelly Mellings

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

The Outsider
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Oval Portrait
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1842

The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1842

The Overnight Guest
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Overstory
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1871

The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994