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One Day
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

One Day in December
Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Foot in Eden
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
Olivia Hawker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One for the Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

One Friday Morning
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1952

One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One! Hundred! Demons!
Lynda Barry

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2002

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
Kate Kennedy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One Last Rainy Day: The Legacy of a Prince
Kate Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Scott Turow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

One Native Life
Richard Wagamese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

One Of Ours
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

One of the Girls
Lucy Clarke

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

One Of These Days
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

One of Us Is Back
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

One of Us Is Dead
Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One of Us is Lying
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

One of Us Is Next
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

One Perfect Couple
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

One Plus One: A Novel
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

One Second After
William Forstchen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
Stephanie Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

One Summer in Savannah: A Novel
Terah Shelton Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

One Thousand Dollars
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1919

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

One Today
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

One Two Three
Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
Peter Lynch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

One Wrong Step
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

On Fairy-Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1939

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

On Free Choice Of The Will
Transl. Thomas Williams, Augustine of Hippo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 395

On Freedom
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

On Friendship
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1769

On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

On Imagination
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

On Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1830

On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

On Justice Power and Human Nature
Transl. Paul Woodruff, Thucydides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Dave Grossman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Only for the Week
Natasha Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Only If You're Lucky
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Only the Beautiful
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

On Mystic Lake
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

On Photography
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

On Revolution
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

On Such A Full Sea
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1937

On the Beach
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

On the Come Up
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

On the Devil's Court
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Andrew Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

On the Equality of the Sexes
Judith Sargent Murray

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1790

On the Far Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

On the Move
Thom Gunn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

On The Nature Of Things
Lucretius

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1910

On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1859

On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

On the Shortness of Life
Seneca

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 49

On the Soul
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On the Sublime
Longinus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 100

On the train the woman standing
Claudia Rankine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

On Turning Ten
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

On War
Carl von Clausewitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Onyx Storm
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Open
Andre Agassi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Open City
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Lauren Slater

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Open Season
C. J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Open Throat
Henry Hoke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014