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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 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 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 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 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 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

The Association of Small Bombs
Karan Mahajan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Atlantis Plague
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Attack
Kurt Schlichter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

The Au Pair Affair
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Auroras of Autumn
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1950

The Auschwitz Escape
Joel C. Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Austen Affair
Madeline Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Austere Academy
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Oscar Zeta Acosta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Autobiography of an Execution
David R. Dow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1931

The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Avatar
Jonathan Cahn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013