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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

A Very Short Story
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1792

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka
William Butler Yeats

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

A Visit of Charity
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1941

A Visit to Grandmother
William Melvin Kelley

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1964

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
Anna Julia Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

A Voice in the Wind
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Vampyre
John Polidori

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1819

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Yan Glaser

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Van Gogh Deception
Deron R. Hicks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
William James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902

The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Vegetarian
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Veiled Kingdom
Holly Renee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Veldt
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

The Vendor of Sweets
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Venice Sketchbook
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Venus Hottentot
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Victims
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

The View From Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Villa
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Violent Bear It Away
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Virginian
Owen Wister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Virus
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

The Viscount Who Loved Me
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Vision of Sir Launfal
James Russell Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1848

The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1839

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Voyage of the Frog
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

V.
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Valentine
Elizabeth Wetmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Valentine
Wendy Cope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Valentine for Ernest Mann
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Katherine Howe, Anderson Cooper

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Vanishing Acts
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Variation
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Varjak Paw
S. F. Said

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Vathek
William Beckford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1786

Veiled Sentiments
Lila Abu-Lughod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Velvet Was the Night
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Venus
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1593

Venus in Furs
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Verity
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Vermeer's Hat
Timothy Brook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Veronika Decides To Die
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Verses upon the Burning of our House
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

V for Vendetta
Alan Moore

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

Vicious
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Vicious
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victory City
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Derrick Barnes, Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2022

Video Blues
Mary Jo Salter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Vietgone
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
GB Tran

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Villette
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Vineland
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Violeta
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Virgil Wander
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Volkswagen Blues
Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Volpone
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

Vow of Thieves
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Voyage In The Dark
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Voyager
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993