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There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

The Rez Sisters
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

The Richest Man in Babylon
George Samuel Clason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Elizabeth Letts

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Rider
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1791

The Rights of the Colonists
Samuel Adams

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1772

The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Rig Veda: An Anthology
Transl. Wendy Doniger, Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Rise of the Roman Empire
Polybius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 171

the rites for Cousin Vit
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

The Ritual: A Dark College Romance
Shantel Tessier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The River
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The River
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The River Between
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The River Between Us
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Road to Character
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Road to Mecca
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Road To Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1937

The Roar
Emma Clayton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Roaring Girl
Greg Hollingshead

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Rock and The River
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Rocking Horse Winner
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1926

The Rockpile
James Baldwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965

The Romance of the Rose
Guillaume De Lorris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1230

The Rom-Commers
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Room on Rue Amélie
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Room Where It Happened
John Bolton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Rose Code
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Round House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Rover
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Omar Khayyam

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1100

The Ruined Maid
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1866

The Ruins of Gorlan
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Rules of Magic
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Runaway King
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Running Dream
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Running Man
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
John Mark Comer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade, Transl. Willard R. Trask

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Saints of Swallow Hill
Donna Everhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Salt Path
Raynor Winn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Samurai's Garden
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Samurai's Tale
Erik Christian Haugaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sandbox
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Sand Child
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Sandman
E. T. A. Hoffmann

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1816

The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Satyricon
Petronius, Transl. Piero Chiara, Transl. P.G. Walsh

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 60

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Scarlet Ibis
James Hurst

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1850

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Scarlet Plague
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Scent Keeper
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The School For Good and Evil
Soman Chainani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1777

The School Story
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Schooner Flight
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Schwa Was Here
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Science of Breakable Things
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Scorch Trials
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Sculptor's Funeral
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

The Sea
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Sea in Winter
Christine Day

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Searcher
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Sea-Wolf
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

The Second Coming
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Second Life of Mirielle West
Amanda Skenandore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Second Mountain
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreaking Historical Novel of the Titanic
Shana Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Second Shepherd's Play
Wakefield Master

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1500