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The Raven King
Nora Sakavic

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Raven Scholar
Antonia Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Reading List
Sara Nisha Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Real Thing
Henry James

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

There Are No Saints
Sophie Lark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Reckoning
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

The Recruit
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Red and the Black
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1895

The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Red Convertible
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Red Pony
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1933

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Ida B. Wells

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

The Red Shoes
Sheila Black

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Sweater
Joseph O. Legaspi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Red Umbrella
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

There Is No Devil
Sophie Lark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

There is no Frigate like a Book
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1866

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Fiona Hill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Rememberer
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Report Card
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Reptile Room
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Republic
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

There's A Certain Slant Of Light
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | Adult | Published in 2024

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Rest of Our Lives
Ben Markovits

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

There There
Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Return of Ellie Black
Emiko Jean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Return of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Revolt Of Mother
Mary Wilkins Freeman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
Sonia Manzano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

There Was a Party for Langston
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

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 Right Move
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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
Anonymous, Transl. Wendy Doniger

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
Adam L.G. Nevill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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 Has Roots
Amal El-Mohtar

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
M. Scott Peck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Road of Bones
Demi Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025