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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

Adelaide: A Novel
Genevieve Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1710

A Devoted Son
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Disability History of the United States
Kim E. Nielsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Distant Episode
Paul Bowles

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

A Dog Has Died
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

Adonais
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1821

A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Advice to My Son
Peter Meinke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

A Fable
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

A Fall of Marigolds
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Family Supper
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1983

A Far Cry From Africa
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A Fatal Grace
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Affluenza
John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Fierce Discontent
Michael McGerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Following
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Africa Kills Her Sun
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Afro-Latina
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

After
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

After
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

After Annie: A Novel
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After The First Death
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

After the Last Border:Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
Jessica Goudeau

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

After Twenty Years
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1906

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

After We Collided
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
Eric Jay Dolin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Again Later
Martha Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1966

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
Joan W. Blos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Gesture Life
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Glimpse
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1955

A Good Neighborhood
Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

A Great Need
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Agricola
Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 98

A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

A Handful of Dates
Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1964

A Handful of Stars
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

A Hanging
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1931

A Happy Death
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

A Haunted House
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1921

A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul G. Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Heart in a Body in the World
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Hero Of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

A High Five for Glenn Burke
Phil Bildner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Ahimsa
Supriya Kelkar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Raj Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

A History Of Wild Places
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
Melissa Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

A Horseman in the Sky
Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A House With Good Bones
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1851

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1981

Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

A Is For Alibi
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ajax
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

A Jelly-Fish
Marianne Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1909

A Journal Of The Plague Year
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1917