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Alex Cross Must Die
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Alex Cross's Trial
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
Hugh Brogan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Alex & Me
Irene Pepperberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Alfred Kazin's Journals
Richard M. Cook

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Algorithms To Live By
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ali and Nino
Kurban Said

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Alibis
André Aciman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Alice
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Stacy A. Cordery

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Alito
Mollie Hemingway

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

Allegiance
Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

All Fall Down
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

All for Love
John Dryden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

All God's Chillun Got Wings
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

All God's Dangers
Theodore Rosengarten

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

All Good Children
Catherine Austen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

All Grown Up
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Alligator Bayou
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

All In
Billie Jean King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

All in Her Head
Elizabeth Comen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

All Is Not Forgotten
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All I Want Is Everything
Cecily Von Ziegesar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

All Joy and No Fun
Jennifer Senior

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

All of the Above
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

All of Us Murderers
K. J. Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All of Us Villains
Christine Lynn Herman, Amanda Foody

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

All Our Kin
Carol B. Stack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All Our Shimmering Skies
Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All Our Wrong Todays
Elan Mastai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All Our Yesterdays
Cristin Terrill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

All Over Creation
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

All Rhodes Lead Here: A Novel
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All's Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

All Shook Up
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

All That Is
James Salter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Darragh Mckeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All That Remains
Sue Black

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Answers
Michael Kupperman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

All the Devils are Here
David Seabrook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

All the Devils Are Here
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

All the Impossible Things
Lindsay Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

All the Lives We Never Lived
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Living and the Dead
Hayley Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

All the Lonely People
Mike Gayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All the Missing Pieces
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All the Noise at Once
Deandra Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

All These Worlds
Dennis E. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All the Shah's Men
Stephen Kinzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

All the Stars in the Heavens
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

All the Truth That's in Me
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

All the World's a Stage
Gretchen Woelfle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

All Things Wise and Wonderful
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

All Three Stooges
Erica S. Perl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

All We Know
Simon French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

All We Say
Ben Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Almost Home
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Almost Life
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Along the Infinite Sea
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Alpha
Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Always
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Always, Clementine
Carlie Sorosiak

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Always Looking Up
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was in June
Clive James

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Amari and the Despicable Wonders
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscious of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Ambivalent Conquests
Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Ambush
James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

America, América
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

America for Americans
Erika Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

American Assassin
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Tim Alberta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Icon
Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

American Kings
Seth Wickersham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

American Notes
Charles Dickens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1842

American Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010