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An Elephant in the Garden

Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

An Encounter

James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1913

An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1882

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

An Episode of War

Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1690

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

John Dryden

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1668

An Essay on Criticism

Alexander Pope

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1711

An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1734

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Thomas Malthus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1798

A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

Henry Cole

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A New Earth: Create a Better Life

Eckhart Tolle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A New England Nun

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

A New National Anthem

Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Angelfall

Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Angel Of Greenwood

Randi Pink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Angels and Demons

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Tony Kushner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Anger Is a Gift

Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Lorna Landvik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

A Night Divided

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

A Night to Remember

Walter Lord

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

Anil's Ghost

Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

An Image of Africa

Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals

Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Temple Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Animal's People

Indra Sinha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2019

An Inspector Calls

J.B. Priestley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Anna In The Tropics

Nilo Cruz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

Anna O

Matthew Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Anna Of Byzantium

Tracy Barrett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Anne of Avonlea

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1909

Anne Of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1908

Annie Bot

Sierra Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Annihilation of Caste

B. R. Ambedkar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

An Obstacle

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1890

An Octoroon

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

An Offer From a Gentleman

Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Noiseless Patient Spider

Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1868

An Ordinary Man

Paul Rusesabagina

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Another Brooklyn

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Country

James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House

Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

A Not So Meet Cute

Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

An Outpost Of Progress

Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

A Novel Love Story

Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Anowa

Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Antelope Woman

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Anthills Of The Savannah

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Antigone

Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Antigone

Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Anxious People

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

anyone lived in a pretty how town

E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Any Small Goodness

Tony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Anything But Typical

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Anything Is Possible

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A&P

John Updike

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

A Painted House

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Pair of Silk Stockings

Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

A Pair of Tickets

Amy Tan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Apeirogon

Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

A Perfect Spy

John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Apex Hides the Hurt

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1756

A Photo Finish

Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Piece Of Cake: A Memoir

Cupcake Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006