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Augustus
John Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Au Revoir Crazy European Chick
Joe Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Austenland
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Autism Out Loud
Kate Swenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

Autonomous
Annalee Newitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Autopsy
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Avalon High
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Avengers of the New World
Laurent Dubois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Awakenings
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Awaken The Giant Within
Anthony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Aztec
Gary Jennings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Absolutist
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Accidental Asian
Eric Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Accidental Favorite
Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Accident Season
Moira Fowley-Doyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Acharnians
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 425

The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
Cate Osborn, Erik Gude

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Adjunct
Maria Adelmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The Affair
C. P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Affair
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1958

The African Queen
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Afterlife
Donald Antrim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Agony of Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Aguero Sisters: A Novel
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1949

The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Alex Crow
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Michael Booth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Almost Sisters
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Leonard Shlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Alternatives
Caoilinn Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Amateur
Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Ambassadors
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Amendment
Kiersten Modglin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The American
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

The American Heiress
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

The American Political Tradition
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

The American Promise
James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage, Susan M. Hartmann

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
Charles Howard Mcilwain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Anatomy of Wings
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Ancestor's Tale
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

The Angelic Year
Ambika Wauters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Angel of Indian Lake
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Anthropologists
Aysegül Savas

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2024

The Anti-Communist Manifesto
Jesse Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Anti-Politics Machine
James Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Apocalypse Now Book
Peter Cowie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Appeal
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Appeal
Janice Hallett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Appointment
Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Architect's Apprentice
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Arrangement
Robyn Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Artist
Lucy Steeds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Artist of Disappearance
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Amanda Palmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Art of Being Normal
Lisa Williamson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Art of Deception
Stephanie Burgis

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Lajos Egri

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1942

The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress
Jim Rohn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Art of Fiction
John Gardner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Art of Inheriting Secrets
Barbara O'Neal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Art of Keeping Cool
Janet Taylor Lisle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Epictetus

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 124

The Art of Love
A.B. Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Art of Resistance
Justus Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Art of Social Media
Guy Kawasaki, Peg Fitzpatrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Art of the Commonplace
Wendell Berry

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Art of the Personal Essay
Phillip Lopate

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

The Art of the Start
Guy Kawasaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Art of the Wasted Day
Patricia Hampl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
Jeff Goins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Art Spy
Michelle Young

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

The Ash Garden
Dennis Bock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Assistant
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Associate
Phillip Margolin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001