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An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Another Day in the Death of America
Gary Younge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
Mark Bray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Antihero
Gregg Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Antonietta
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

An Untamed State
Roxane Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

An Unwanted Guest
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
Max Lucado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Any Way the Wind Blows
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Anywhere You Run
Wanda M. Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Apart at the Seams
Marie Bostwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Apocalypse Never
Michael Shellenberger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Apocalyptic Planet
Craig Childs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Apollyon
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Apostle's Cove
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
Greer Stothers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Apple
David Pogue

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Appointment With Death
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Apt Pupil
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1982

Aquarium
David Vann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Arabian Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1704

Arabian Nights and Days
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Archenemies
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Archer's Quest
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Arctic Summer
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Are We Rome?
Cullen Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life
Tom Rath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Argylle
Elly Conway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Armada
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Armageddon Summer
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1894

Arranged Marriage
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Arrow's Flight
Mercedes Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Arrugas
Paco Roca

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Art and Illusion
Ernst Gombrich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Arthur, High King of Britain
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Arthurian Romances
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1170

Arthur Miller
Christopher Bigsby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

As Close to Us As Breathing
Elizabeth Poliner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

As Cool as I Am
Pete Fromm

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

As for Me and My House
Sinclair Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Asha and the Spirit Bird
Jasbinder Bilan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Ashfall
Mike Mullin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Ash Princess
Laura Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Asian American Dreams
Helen Zia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Asking for It
Kate Harding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ask the Passengers
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Assassins
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

As She Left It
Catriona McPherson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

As Simple As Snow
Gregory Galloway

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

As Sure as the Dawn
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Peter Stark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Astronomer's Wife
Kay Boyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1591

As We Are Now
May Sarton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Asylum
Madeleine Roux

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Asylum for Nightface
Bruce Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

As You Wish
Cary Elwes, Joe Layden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

At Fault
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

At First Sight
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At Home in Mitford
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Attachments
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Attention Seeker
Darcy Michael

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Philip Dray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Robin Lane Fox

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1966

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

Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Aurora
David Koepp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1863

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

Autumn
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Avalon High
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005