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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

A Simple Favor
Darcey Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Simple Heart
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1877

A Single Man: A Novel
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires
Jerry Hicks, Esther Hicks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ask for Andrea
Noelle W. Ihli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ask Me No Questions
Marina Budhos

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Maureen Callahan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Ask The Dust
John Fante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

A Small Good Thing
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

A Small Needful Fact
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988

A Snake Falls to Earth
Darcie Little Badger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

As Nature Made Him
John Colapinto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

A Snicker of Magic
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

A Song Below Water
Bethany C. Morrow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Song to Drown Rivers
Ann Liang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Sorceress Comes to Call
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Sorrowful Woman
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

A Soul of Ash and Blood
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Soul to Keep
Opal Reyne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Sound Of Thunder
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

A Spark of Light
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Aspects of the Novel
E. M. Forster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1927

A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Stolen Life: A Memoir
Jaycee Dugard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Katherine Howe, Anderson Cooper

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

A Stranger in the House
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Study in Charlotte
Brittany Cavallaro

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

A Summer Tragedy
Arna Bontemps

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A Tale For The Time Being
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Talent for Murder
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Tale Of A Tub
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1704

A Tale of Three Kings: A Study of Brokenness
Gene Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

A Talk to Teachers
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

A Tangle of Knots
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

At an Inn
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1892

A Taste of Blackberries
Doris Buchanan Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

A Tempest
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

A Tempest of Tea
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

A Temporary Matter
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Athlete Vs. Mathlete
W.C. Mack

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

At Home
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Thousand Boy Kisses
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

A Thousand Broken Pieces
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

A Thousand Never Evers
Shana Burg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Thousand Steps into Night
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Time For Mercy
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Time to Kill
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Time To Talk
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Atlanta Exposition Speech
Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1895

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Atmosphere: A Love Story
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel
David Diop, Transl. Anna Moschovakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Touch of Ruin
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Town Called Solace
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1710

A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1739

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

A True Story
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1874

At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine, Rachel S.F. Heller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Attack Of The Black Rectangles
A.S King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

At the ’Cadian Ball
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At the Galleria Shopping Mall
Tony Hoagland

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

At the Gym
Mark Doty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002