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Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Gordon MacKenzie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Ordeal by Innocence
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Organizational Culture and Leadership
Edgar H. Schein

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orientation: And Other Stories
Daniel Orozco

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Original Sin
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Otherwise Engaged
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Our Daily Bread
Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Our Guys
Bernard Lefkowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Our Inner Ape
Frans de Waal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Our Savage Neighbors
Peter Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Our Share of Night: A Novel
Mariana Enríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ours Is a Tale of Murder
Nora Murphy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Our Twisted Hero
Yi Mun-Yol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Our Vicious Oaths
N. E. Davenport

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Our Woman in Moscow
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Out
Natsuo Kirino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Outerbridge Reach
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1937

Out of Bounds
Beverley Naidoo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2001

Out of Our Past
Carl Degler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

Out of Print
George Brock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Out of Salem
Hal Schrieve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing History of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Erik Loomis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Out of the Crisis
W. Edwards Deming

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Out of the Maze
Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Out of the Night that Covers Me
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Walt Odets

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Out to Canaan
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Napoleon Hill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Over A Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Hanna Jansen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Overboard
Elizabeth Fama

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Over My Dead Body
Greg Melville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Over the Edge of the World
Laurence Bergreen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Owned
A. K. Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex
Aubrey Marcus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Obsession
Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

The Odds of You
Kate Dramis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Odd Women
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

The Office Bffs: Tales of the Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There
Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Official We Do Not Care Club Handbook
Melani Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Old Regime and The French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1856

The One
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The One Day You Were My Husband
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
Kenneth H. Blanchard, William Oncken Jr.

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The One Safe Place
Tania Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The One Thing You Need to Know
Marcus Buckingham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Only
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Only Alien on the Planet
Kristen D. Randle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Only Story
Julian Barnes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Only Survivors
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Opposite of Spoiled
Ron Lieber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Orange Houses
Paul Griffin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Daniel K. Richter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ordinary Princess
M.M. Kaye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Orenda
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Organic Machine
Richard White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Organization Man
William H. Whyte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
María Rosa Menocal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Orphan Keeper
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Other Emily
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Other Mothers
Katherine Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Other Side
Juan Pablo Villalobos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2019

The Other Side of Dark
Sarah Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

The Other Side of Silence
Ted Allbeury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Other Side of the Island
Allegra Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Otherwhere Post
Emily J. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

The Outlander
Gil Adamson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Outstation
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
Kelly Harms

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions
Joseph Nguyen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025