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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
Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn

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

A Piece of Steak
Jack London

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

A Place at the Table
Saadia Faruqi, Laura Shovan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Place to Hang the Moon
Kate Albus

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

A Place to Stand
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

A Poison Tree
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Apollo
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Apollo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Apology
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Charles B. Dew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Appetite for Innocence
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Apple: Skin to the Core
Eric Gansworth

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2020

Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)
Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Approach of Winter
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

A Prayer for My Daughter
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

April Morning
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

A Primer for the Small Weird Loves
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult

A Private Experience
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

A Promised Land
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

A Psalm Of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1838

A Question of Power
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Quilt of a Country
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2001

Araby
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Arcadia
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Arcadia
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Archer's Voice
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Arc of Justice
Kevin Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Arden of Faversham
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1592

A Real Durwan
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

A Reaper at the Gates
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Areopagitica
John Milton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1644

A Report to an Academy
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1917

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Respectable Woman
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1894

A Retrieved Reformation
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1903

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Are you the new person drawn toward me?
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Bronislaw Malinowski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Ariadne
Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ariel
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

A Rip in Heaven
Jeanine Cummins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa, Transl. Martin Brown, Transl. Risa Kobayashi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1976

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

A Room with a View
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1930

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1872

A Rover's Story
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

A Royal Conundrum
Lisa Yee, Illustr, Dan Santat

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Arrival at Santos
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Arsenic and Adobo
Mia P. Manansala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941