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American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

American Gods
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American History
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

American History: A Survey
Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

American Indian Stories
Zitkála-Šá

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1921

Americanized: Rebel without a Green Card
Sara Saedi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

American Like Me
America Ferrera

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

American Moor
Keith Hamilton Cobb

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

American Panda
Gloria Chao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Royals
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

American Rust: A Novel
Philipp Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

American Scripture
Pauline Maier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Edmund S. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

American Sniper
Jim DeFelice

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["I lock you in..."]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight ...”]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

American Street
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

American War
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

America's First Daughter
Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

America the Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

Amerika: The Missing Person
Transl. Willa Muir, Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

A Merry Little Meet Cute
Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Message to Garcia
Elbert Hubbard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1899

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Amina's Voice
Hena Khan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

A Miracle for Breakfast
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Model of Christian Charity
John Winthrop

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1729

Among School Children
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Among School Children
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Amongst Women
John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Among the Betrayed
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
Max Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Among the Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Among the Impostors
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Amoretti XXXV: "My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize"
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Arshay Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Mother In Mannville
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

A Mystery Of Heroism
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Academy for Liars
Alexis Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An Actor Prepares
Constantin Stanislavski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

An Agony. As Now.
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Analects of Confucius
Confucius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country
Shana Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

An American Marriage
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

An American Sunrise
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

An Ancient Gesture
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

An Anonymous Girl: A Novel
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Anathema
Keri Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

And of Clay Are We Created
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1989

Andrew Carnegie And The Rise Of Big Business
Harold C. Livesay

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1975

And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students
Miles Corwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

And The Band Played On
Randy Shilts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

And The Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomás Rivera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

And the People Stayed Home
Kitty O’Meara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

A Nearly Normal Family
M. T. Edvardsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

An Elderly Lady is up to No Good
Helene Tursten

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1766