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Opposite of Always
Justin A. Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Walter J. Ong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Oranges
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Oration on the Dignity of Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1496

Orbital
Samantha Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ordinary Hazards
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2019

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Ordinary People
Judith Guest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Orestes
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 409

Orientalism
Edward Said

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Origin
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Oroonoko
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1688

Orphan Island
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Orpheus and Eurydice
Ovid, Virgil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Other Birds
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Otherwise
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1888

Our Country Friends
Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle S. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Our Fault
Mercedes Ron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
John Kotter, Illustr. Peter Mueller, Holger Rathgeber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Ourika
Claire de Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1823

Our Infinite Fates
Laura Steven

Fiction | Novel | YA

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D. Putnam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Our Sister Killjoy
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Our Souls At Night
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Town
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Our Violent Ends
Chloe Gong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Warren St. John

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Outlander
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Outlawed
Anna North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Outline
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope Pérez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Out of My Dreams
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Out Of Nowhere
Maria Padian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Out of the Easy
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Out of the Woods
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Out of This Furnace
Thomas Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Out on a Limb
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Out, Out—
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Out Stealing Horses
Transl. Anne Born, Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

Ox Cart Man
Donald Hall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Oxygen
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Pachinko
Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Pack Up the Moon
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Pageboy: A Memoir
Elliot Page

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1939

Pamela
Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1740

Paperboy
Vince Vawter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Paper Towns
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Paper Wishes
Lois Sepahban

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Paradise
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

Paradise of the Blind
Duong Thu Huong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Paradise on Fire
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Paradise Regained
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1671

Paradiso
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1320