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Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Clifton L. Taulbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

On Competition
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One Child
Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Thing
Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One Life: My Mother's Story
Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

One Minute to Midnight
Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One of Us
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

One Shot at Forever
Chris Ballard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Robert Maurer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

One Way Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One With You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

On Gold Mountain
Lisa See

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

On Hitler's Mountain
Irmgard Hunt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Only Ever Yours
Louise O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Only the Animals
Ceridwen Dovey

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Only the Good Spy Young
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

On Sparta
Plutarch

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 100

On the Citizen: (Or: De Cive)
Thomas Hobbes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Heavens
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 351

On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

On the Way to the Wedding
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

On the Wings of Heroes
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

On Trails
Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

On Wings of Blood
Briar Boleyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

Openly Straight
Bill Konigsberg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Open Season
Jonathan Kellerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Operating Instructions
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Gordon MacKenzie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Ordeal by Innocence
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Orientation: And Other Stories
Daniel Orozco

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Otherwise Engaged
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Our Daily Bread
Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Our Guys
Bernard Lefkowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Our Inner Ape
Frans de Waal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Our Savage Neighbors
Peter Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Our Share of Night: A Novel
Mariana Enríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Twisted Hero
Yi Mun-Yol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Our Vicious Oaths
N. E. Davenport

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Outerbridge Reach
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1937

Out of Bounds
Beverley Naidoo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2001

Out of Our Past
Carl Degler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

Out of Salem
Hal Schrieve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing History of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Erik Loomis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Out of the Night that Covers Me
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Walt Odets

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Out to Canaan
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Napoleon Hill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Over A Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Hanna Jansen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Overboard
Elizabeth Fama

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Over the Edge of the World
Laurence Bergreen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex
Aubrey Marcus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Packinghouse Daughter
Cheri Register

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Paladin's Faith
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Paladin's Hope
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Paladin's Strength
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Palimpsest
Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Pandora's Lab
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017