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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 Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

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 Hymn to Life
Gisèle Pelicot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Ain't Nobody's Fool
Martha Ackmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

A Jest of God
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Akata Woman
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Kind of Flying
Ron Carlson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

A Kingdom of Stars and Shadows
Holly Renee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Alamut
Judith Tarr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

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

Alebrijes
Donna Barba Higuera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Alex Cross Must Die
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Alex Cross's Trial
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
Hugh Brogan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Alex & Me
Irene Pepperberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

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 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

A Light in the Window
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Little History of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

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

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 In
Billie Jean King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

All of the Above
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

All of Us Murderers
K. J. Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All of Us Villains
Christine Lynn Herman, Amanda Foody

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

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 Shimmering Skies
Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Rhodes Lead Here: A Novel
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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
James Salter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Lives We Never Lived
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

All the Lonely People
Mike Gayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All the Missing Pieces
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

All the Shah's Men
Stephen Kinzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

All the Stars in the Heavens
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015