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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

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 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 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 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 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

All the World's a Stage
Gretchen Woelfle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

All Three Stooges
Erica S. Perl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

All We Know
Simon French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Almost Home
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Love Like the Sun
Riss M. Neilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Alpha
Jasinda Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was in June
Clive James

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

A Madness So Discreet
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Man Called Horse
Dorothy M. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

A Man Like Smith
Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

A Man's World
Donald McRae

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscious of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Ambivalent Conquests
Inga Clendinnen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Ambush
James O. Born, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Meeting In The Dark
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

America Is Not the Heart
Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

American Assassin
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Icon
Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

American Notes
Charles Dickens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1842

American Nursing
Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

American Reckoning
Christian G. Appy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

American Son
Brian Ascalon Roley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

American Wasteland
Jonathan Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

America (The Book)
Jon Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Midnight Clear
William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Mirror Mended
Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2022

Amity
Nathan Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Among the Barons
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Among the Brave
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Among the Burning Flowers
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Among the Enemy
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Among the Free
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Among the Thugs
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

A Morbid Taste For Bones
Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Mother's Reckoning
Sue Klebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

A Municipal Report
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909