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A Piece of Steak
Jack London

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

A Place at the Table
Laura Shovan, Saadia Faruqi

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

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. Risa Kobayashi, Transl. Martin Brown

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
Dan Santat, Lisa Yee, Illustr

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

Ars Poetica
Horace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1991

Ars Poetica?
Czesław Miłosz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Artemis
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Artificial Condition
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Rule Against Murder
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Aru Shah and the End of Time
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 269

As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

As Bright As Heaven
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Scatter Of Light
Malinda Lo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Sea of Unspoken Things
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Secular Age
Charles Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence Sterne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1768

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1959

A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Sheldon Vanauken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

As Good As Dead
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Shadow in the Ember
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ashes
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ashes Of Roses
Mary Jane Auch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Ashlords
Scott Reintgen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837
Paul E. Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de Las Casas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1552

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Short Walk Through a Wide World
Douglas Westerbeke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Shropshire Lad, Poem XXXVI
A. E. Housman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

Ash Wednesday
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1790