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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 of Lies

Brittney Arena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Dark and Secret Magic

Wallis Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Daughter of Fair Verona

Christina Dodd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Different Mirror for Young People

Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2012

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Admiring Silence

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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 in the Dark

Scott Reintgen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Dry White Season

André Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Adult Braces

Lindy West

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Fellowship of Bakers & Magic

J. Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

A Flag for Sunrise

Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Flea in Her Ear

Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

A Forgery of Fate

Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

A Fort of Nine Towers

Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Fortunate Man

John Berger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

A Free Life

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Friend of the Earth

T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Frolic of His Own

William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

After

Amy Efaw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

After

Francis Chalifour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

After Alice

Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Ever Happy

Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Afterlife

Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After Lunch with Frank O'Hara

Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Afternoon on the Amazon

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Aftertaste

Daria Lavelle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

After the Fire

Will Hill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

After the Funeral

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

After the Music Stopped

Alan S. Blinder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

After the Snow

S. D. Crockett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

After This

Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Against All Enemies

Richard A. Clarke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Against Empathy

Paul Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Against Nature

Lorraine Daston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Against the Machine

Paul Kingsnorth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

A Game of Retribution

Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Garden to Keep

Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Agatha Christie

Gillian Gill

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Agatha Christie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Agency

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agent Zigzag

Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Age of Ambition

Evan Osnos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Age of Anger

Pankaj Mishra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Age of Iron

John Maxwell Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Gift for Tenderness

Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Agile Practice Guide

Project Management Institute

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Girl Named Zippy

Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Agnes of God

John Pielmeier

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

A Good Man in Africa

William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

A Gracious Plenty

Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Great Improvisation

Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

A Great Leap Forward

Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

William Braxton Irvine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer

Sena Jeter Naslund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Harvest of Hearts

Andrea Eames

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025