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The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1897

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Their Finest Hour
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1949

The Iron Giant
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

The Iron Heel
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Iron Trial
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Island
Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Island on Bird Street
Uri Orlev

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

The Island Within
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

The It Girl
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Jacket
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Jade Peony
Wayson Choy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Japanese Quince
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1910

The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
SJ James Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1854

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1929

The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Joke
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Jolly Corner
Henry James

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1908

The Journey
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

The Journey to the West: Volume I
Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Anthony C. Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Judge's List
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1894

The Juvie Three
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Keeper of Happy Endings
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Keeper of Hidden Books
Madeline Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Keeper of Lost Things
Ruth Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Keeper of Stars
Buck Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Keeper of Stories
Sally Page

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Key to Extraordinary
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Kid Who Ran for President
Dan Gutman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Killers
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

The Kill Order
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
Ridley Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th Century America
Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Kingdom Of This World
Alejo Carpentier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1895

The King of Mulberry Street
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The King's Speech
Mark Logue , Peter Conradi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Robert Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Kitchen Front: A Novel
Jennifer Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Kite Fighters
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Knight at Dawn
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The Knight in Rusty Armor
Robert Fisher

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

The Known World
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
Transl. N. J. Dawood, Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1956

The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1889

The Labors of Hercules Beal
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Labyrinth of Solitude
Octavio Paz

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1950

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Lady in the Looking Glass
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

The Lady Of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

The Lady, or the Tiger?
Frank R. Stockton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1882

The Lady With The Dog
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Lager Queen of Minnesota
J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lais of Marie de France
Marie De France

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1100

The Lake
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1827

The Lake House
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

The Lake of Lost Girls
Katherine Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons in Living
Joseph M. Marshall III

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Lamb
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Lamb
Lucy Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Lamp at Noon
Sinclair Ross

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

The Landlady
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

The Landlady
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

The Land of Counterpane
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1885

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Jason De León

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Landry News
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Language of Baklava
Diana Abu-Jaber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Francis S. Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Laramie Project
Moises Kaufman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

The Last Anniversary
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

The Last Book In The Universe
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II
Madeline Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Last Carolina Girl
Meagan Church

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016