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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

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

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 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 Alice

Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

After Ever Happy

Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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 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 Nature

Lorraine Daston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

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

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 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

A Hat Full of Sky

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

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 Burning

Janika Oza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A History Of Loneliness

John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Hundred Summers

Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

A Jest of God

Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Akata Warrior

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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