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100 Sideways Miles
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

13 Little Blue Envelopes
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl
Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

1919: The Year that Changed America
Martin W. Sandler

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1919

22 Britannia Road
Amanda Hodgkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

2666
Roberto Bolano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Rebecca Goldstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
Cathy Davidson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

419
Will Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

47
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

47 Ronin
Mike Richardson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1994

4-Hour Work Week
Tim Ferriss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

5 Levels Of Leadership
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

61 Hours
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

90 Minutes in Heaven
Don Piper, Cecil Murphey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

A Bag of Marbles
Joseph Joffo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Abby
Verna Clay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Bell for Adano
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

A Bend in the Road
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Abigail Adams
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Abingdon Square
María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1977

ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
Bob Ong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Bone from a Dry Sea
Peter Dickinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

A Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

About a Mountain
John D'Agata

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Above Us Only Sky
Michele Young-Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Break with Charity
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Absolution
Patrick Flanery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Absurd Person Singular
Sir Alan Ayckbourn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Abundance
Peter H. Diamandis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Catskill Eagle
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Accordion Crimes
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Certain Justice
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

A Childhood
Harry Crews

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

Achilles
Elizabeth Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Achilles in Vietnam
Jonathan Shay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

A Chorus of Stones
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

A Conspiracy of Paper
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

A Country Doctor
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1919

Acquainted With The Night
Christopher Dewdney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

A Crack in Creation
Jennifer Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Crack in the Earth
Haim Watzman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Crime In The Neighborhood
Suzanne Berne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

A Crime So Monstrous
E. Benjamin Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Across the Bridge
Mavis de Trafford Young

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1955

Across The Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Across the River and into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Across The Universe
Beth Revis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Crucible of Souls
Mitchell Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Act of God
Jeremiah Healy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Acts of the Apostles
St. Luke the Evangelist

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 70

A Cure for Night
Justin Peacock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Cure for Suicide
Jesse Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curse Dark As Gold
Elizabeth C. Bunce

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Adaline Falling Star
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Adam and Eve: Though He Knew Better
John Erskine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Adam Bede
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Adam Smith
Nicholas Phillipson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

A Deal In Wheat
Frank Norris

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1903

A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

A Diary from Dixie
Mary Boykin Chestnut

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1866

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Admission
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Dog Named Christmas
Greg Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Dog's Way Home
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Door Near Here
Heather Quarles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

A Dream Deferred
Shelby Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Dream Play
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

Adrift: A Mer Cavallo Mystery
Micki Browning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Drink before the War
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Dry White Season
André Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Aesop's Fables
Aesop

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 620

A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

A Family Affair
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1881

A Family Apart
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Family by Any Other Name
Bruce Gillespie

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

A Farewell to Alms
Gregory Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Claire Hartfield

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Affinity
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Afghanistan
Alex Ullmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992