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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 Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

At the Water's Edge

Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Aurora Rising

Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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

Avatar Volume 1

Michael Dante DiMartino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

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

Ayesha at Last

Uzma Jalaluddin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Empress

Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Accidental Favorite

Fran Littlewood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Accidental Superpower

Peter Zeihan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Agathas

Kathleen Glasgow, Liz Lawson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Age of Spiritual Machines

Ray Kurzweil

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Age of Walls

Tim Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Alcatraz Escape

Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

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 Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

Scott Galloway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Altar of Pergamon

Jonathan Cahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Anniversary

Andrea Bajani, Transl. Geoffrey Brock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Anthropologists

Aysegül Savas

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2024

The Anti-Communist Manifesto

Jesse Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Antidote

Oliver Burkeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Architecture of Happiness

Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006