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At the Gym
Mark Doty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

At the Mountains of Madness
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

At the Sea-Side
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1913

Aubade
Major Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Aubade with Burning City
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Audition
Katie Kitamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Audre & Bash are Just Friends
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Auggie & Me
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Auguries of Innocence
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Augustown: A Novel
Kei Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Aura
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Martin E. P. Seligman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Authority: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1791

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Ava's Man
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Ave Maria
Frank O'Hara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Average Waves in Unprotected Waters
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

A Very Short Story
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1792

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka
William Butler Yeats

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

A Visit of Charity
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1941

A Visit to Grandmother
William Melvin Kelley

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1964

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
Anna Julia Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

A Voice in the Wind
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Wagner Matinee
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Week in the Woods
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

A Week in Winter
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Whale of the Wild
Illustr. Lindsay Moore, Rosanne Parry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A White Heron
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1886

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Wicker Basket
Robert Creeley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Wind In The Door
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

A Wish in the Dark
Christina Soontornvat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Awkward
Svetlana Chmakova

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

A Wolf Called Wander
Illustr. Mónica Armiño, Rosanne Parry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Woman in Berlin
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy
Sonia Purnell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman on a Roof
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1963

A Work in Progress
Jarrett Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

A Work Of Artifice
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

A World In Disarray
Richard Haass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A World Without Princes
Soman Chainani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

A Worn Path
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

Axolotl
Julio Cortázar

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

A Young People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2007

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Babette's Feast
Karen Blixen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bad Boy: A Memoir
Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Bad Cree
Jessica Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Bad Mormon
Heather Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Summer People
Emma Rosenblum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Bag of Bones
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Bag of Bones
Dunya Mikhail

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ballad
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Ballad of Birmingham
Dudley Randall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeild

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1936

Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Balto and the Great Race
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Transl. Ina Rilke, Dai Sijie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bamboo People
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Cynthia Enloe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992