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A Crime So Monstrous
E. Benjamin Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Across so Many Seas
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
John Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Universe
Beth Revis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Across the Vanishing Sky
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
Kristiana Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

A Crown of Swords
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Crucible of Souls
Mitchell Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
Steve Harvey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Herminia Ibarra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Act of God
Jeremiah Healy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Acts of Faith
Philip Caputo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Acts of the Apostles
St. Luke the Evangelist

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 70

Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 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

A Dangerous Business
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Addicted for Now
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Deal In Wheat
Frank Norris

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1903

A Deal With the Elf King
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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
Will Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Adultery
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Dying Colonialism
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

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 False Start
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Familiar Stranger
A.R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Endless
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Flower Traveled in My Blood
Haley Cohen Gilliland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

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
Francine Prose

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

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 That Night
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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