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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 Torch Against the Night
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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 Trick of the Light
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

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

Awake
Jen Hatmaker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
Anthony de Mello

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

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
Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Lindsay Moore

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 Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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
Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Mónica Armiño

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