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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 In
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

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

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
Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Life Can Afford
Emily Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

All That's Left in the World
Erik J. Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

All the Beauty in the World
Patrick Bringley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Glimmering Stars
Mark Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Little Raindrops
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Other Mothers Hate Me
Sarah Harman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

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 Water in the World
Eiren Caffall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All the Years of Her Life
Morley Callaghan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

All They Will Call You
Tim Z. Hernandez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

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 This Twisted Glory
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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

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 Letter to Whiskey
Kandi Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Alphabet
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Magic Steeped in Poison
Judy I. Lin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

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

A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

A Mango-Shaped Space
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

A Man In Full
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Man Said to the Universe
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

A Man Who Had No Eyes
MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

A Map of Home
Randa Jarrar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Amari And The Great Game
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

A Marvellous Light
Freya Marske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1940

Amazing Grace
John Newton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Amazing Grace Adams
Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023