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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 Dust
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

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 Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Adam Makos, Larry Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

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 in the Sky
Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A House With Good Bones
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2022

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

Ain't No Makin It
Jay Macleod

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1987

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

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

Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Killing Cold
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Kind of Spark
Elle McNicoll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany Barnett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Alabama Moon
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Land More Kind than Home
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes
Atia Abawi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

A Lantern in Her Hand
Bess Streeter Aldrich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1928

Alas, Babylon
Pat Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

A Late Encounter with the Enemy
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Al Capone Does My Homework
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Gennifer Choldenko

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Alcestis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1865

Ali Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
David Attenborough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Light in the Flame
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Lion to Guard Us
Clyde Robert Bulla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

A List of Cages
Robin Roe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

A Litany for Survival
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

A Litany in Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1600

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

A Little History of the World
E.H. Gombrich

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1936

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1905

Alive
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All about Love: Love Song to the Nation Book 1
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

All Adults Here
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All American Boys
Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Allegiant
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Allegory Of The Cave
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Illustr. Michelle Mee Nutter

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

All Fours
Miranda July

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

All Good People Here
Ashley Flowers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All Her Little Secrets
Wanda M. Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All I Asking for Is My Body
Milton Murayama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Allies
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Robert Fulghum

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1986

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
Beth Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

All My Sons
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947