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Rose in Chains
Julie Soto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Roselily
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

Rouge: A Novel
Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Roughing It
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1724

Ruby
Cynthia Bond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Ruin and Rising
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Ruined
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Ruins of a Great House
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1953

Rule of the Bone
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Rules
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Rules of the Game
Amy Tan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Rules of the Road
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Rumble Fish
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
Liesl Shurtliff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Run
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Runaway Ralph
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Runaway: Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Run: Book One
John Lewis, Illustr. L. Fury, Illustr. Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2021

Runner
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Running Loose
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Running Out Of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Running With Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Running with Sherman
Christopher McDougall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Run, Rose, Run
Dolly Parton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Runt
Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

R.U.R.
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Ruth
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Ruthless Creatures
J. T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Rachel Incident
Caroline O'Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Racial Contract
Charles W. Mills

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Racketeer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Radical and the Republican
James Oakes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Raft
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rainmaker
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R. K. Narayan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1907

The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1594

The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1712

The Rats in the Walls
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Reading List
Sara Nisha Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Real Thing
Henry James

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Reckoning
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

The Recruit
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Red and the Black
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1895

The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Red Convertible
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Red Pony
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1933

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Ida B. Wells

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

The Red Shoes
Sheila Black

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Sweater
Joseph O. Legaspi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Red Umbrella
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Rememberer
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Report Card
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Reptile Room
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Republic
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Return of Ellie Black
Emiko Jean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Return of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Revolt Of Mother
Mary Wilkins Freeman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022