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Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA

Any Small Goodness
Tony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Apocalyptic Planet
Craig Childs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Aquarium
David Vann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Arabian Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Arctic Summer
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Are We Rome?
Cullen Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Armada
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Armageddon Summer
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Arrugas
Paco Roca

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Arthurian Romances
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Arthur Miller
Christopher Bigsby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult

As Close to Us As Breathing
Elizabeth Poliner

Fiction | Novel | Adult

As Cool as I Am
Pete Fromm

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ashes Of Roses
Mary Jane Auch

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ashfall
Mike Mullin

Fiction | Novel | YA

Asian American Dreams
Helen Zia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Asking for It
Kate Harding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ask Me No Questions
Marina Budhos

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ask the Passengers
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA

Aspects of the Novel
E. M. Forster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult

Assassins
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult

As She Left It
Catriona McPherson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

As Simple As Snow
Gregory Galloway

Fiction | Novel | YA

Astronomer's Wife
Kay Boyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Asylum for Nightface
Bruce Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA

As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume II
Jacana Media

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Philip Dray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Robin Lane Fox

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

Fiction | Play | Adult

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Au Revoir Crazy European Chick
Joe Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | YA

Austenland
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA

Autonomous
Annalee Newitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Avalon High
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA

Avengers of the New World
Laurent Dubois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Average Waves in Unprotected Waters
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Accidental Asian
Eric Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

The Accident Season
Moira Fowley-Doyle

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Acharnians
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book

The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Affair
C. P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The African Queen
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Afterlife
Donald Antrim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Agony of Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade

The Aguero Sisters: A Novel
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Alex Crow
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Alienist
Caleb Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Almost Sisters
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Leonard Shlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Amateur
Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Ambassadors
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Ambitious Guest
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Amen Corner
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult

The American
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The American Heiress
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

The American Political Tradition
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
Charles Howard Mcilwain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Anatomy of Wings
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

The Angelic Year
Ambika Wauters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Antelope Wife
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Anti-Politics Machine
James Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Apocalypse Now Book
Peter Cowie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Apothecary
Maile Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade