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Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

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 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

Alcestis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

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 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 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 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 My Rage
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

All My Sons
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

All Over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
Michael Patrick MacDonald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

All Summer In A Day
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1954

All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

All Systems Red
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2017

All That I Owe the Fellows of the Grave
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1933

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Marshall Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

All The Bright Places
Jennifer Niven

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All the Broken Pieces
Ann E. Burg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

All the Broken Places
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All the Dangerous Things
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All the Devils are Here
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All The Lovely Bad Ones
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

All the Missing Girls
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the President's Men
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Bryn Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Years of Her Life
Morley Callaghan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
Christina Soontornvat

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

All This Time
Mikki Daughtry, Rachael Lippincott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ed. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ed. Katharine K. Wilkinson

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All We Have Left
Wendy Mills

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Nicole Chung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

All Your Perfects
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All You Zombies
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

Almond
Won-pyung Sohn, Transl. Joosun Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Almost American Girl
Robin Ha

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2020

Almost a Woman
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Almost, Maine
John Cariani

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Alone
Megan E. Freeman

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

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Along Came a Spider
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

A Long Long Time Ago And Essentially True
Brigid Pasulka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Long Way from Chicago
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider
Ishmael Beah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

A Long Way Home
Saroo Brierley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Lost Lady
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Alphabet
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

alternate names for black boys
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

A Lucky Child
Thomas Buergenthal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Always Running
Luis Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Amadeus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018