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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 Alice
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Lunch with Frank O'Hara
Craig Cotter

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

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

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

A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

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

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 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 Deliverance
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Great Leap Forward
Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

A Heart So White
Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Higher Loyalty
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Hope In The Unseen
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Horse And Two Goats
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

A House of My Own
Sandra Cisneros

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A House of Trees
Joan Colebrook

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

A Human Being Died That Night
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

A Jest of God
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Kind of Flying
Ron Carlson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Alamut
Judith Tarr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Albert Camus: A Biography
Herbert R. Lottman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Albion's Seed
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Alcestis
Katharine Beutner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Alchemy of the Mind
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Alexander Pope: A Life
Maynard Mack

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1968

Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Alex Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
Hugh Brogan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Alex & Me
Irene Pepperberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Alfred Kazin's Journals
Richard M. Cook

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Algorithms To Live By
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ali and Nino
Kurban Said

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Alibis
André Aciman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Stacy A. Cordery

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

A Lie Of The Mind
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

A Life in the Twentieth Century
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

A Living Nightmare
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

All But My Life: A Memoir
Gerda Weissmann Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

Allegiance
Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

All for Love
John Dryden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

All God's Chillun Got Wings
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

All God's Dangers
Theodore Rosengarten

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

All Good Children
Catherine Austen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

All Grown Up
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Alligator Bayou
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

All Is Not Forgotten
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All I Want Is Everything
Cecily Von Ziegesar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

All Joy and No Fun
Jennifer Senior

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

All of the Above
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

All Our Kin
Carol B. Stack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All Our Wrong Todays
Elan Mastai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

All Our Yesterdays
Cristin Terrill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

All Over Creation
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

All's Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

All Shook Up
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Darragh Mckeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Answers
Michael Kupperman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

All the Devils are Here
David Seabrook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

All the Impossible Things
Lindsay Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Stars in the Heavens
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

All the Truth That's in Me
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013