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A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Linda Urban

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Across A Hundred Mountains

Reyna Grande

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Across The Desert

Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Act of Union

Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

Eboo Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

Daisy Hernandez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Curious Beginning

Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curse for True Love

Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Cyborg Manifesto

Donna Haraway

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1985

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Adam's Song

Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

A Dance of the Forests

Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

A Dance With Dragons

George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Dark Brown Dog

Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1901

A Darker Shade of Magic

V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day's Wait

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

Addicted to You

Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Address Unknown

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Deadly Wandering

Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Death in Cornwall

Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M. Hallowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Called Homeless

Sarah Lean

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

A Dog Has Died

Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

A Dog's Life

Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

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 Dowry of Blood

S. T. Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

A Drop of Corruption

Robert Jackson Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Duet For Home

Karina Yan Glaser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Fate Inked in Blood

Danielle Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Thomas Naylor, John de Graaf, David Wann

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 Fire in the Flesh

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A First Time for Everything

Dan Santat

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

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

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

After I Do

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 quake

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

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

After You

Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Against the Loveless World

Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Agent Running in the Field

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Called Samson

Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Girl Named Disaster

Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996