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All Shook Up

Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

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 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 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 In Full

Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

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 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 Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

American Nursing

Patricia D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

American Reckoning

Christian G. Appy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

American Scripture

Pauline Maier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

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 Million Little Pieces

James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Among the Barons

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Among the Betrayed

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Among the Brave

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

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

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Municipal Report

O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

A Murder in Virginia

Suzanne Lebsock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Amy and Isabelle

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Amy Hill Hearth

Amy Hill Hearth, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Sarah Louise Delany

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

An Abundance of Katherines

John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

An Acquaintance with Darkness

Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

An American Genocide

Benjamin Madley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

An American Requiem

James Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

David Crockett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1834

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

An Astrologer's Day

R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

A Nation Under Our Feet

Steven Hahn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient

Norman Cousins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Anatomy of Injustice

Raymond Bonner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Ancient Light

John Banville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

And I Darken

Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

And It Don't Stop

Raquel Cepeda

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

And Then All Hell Broke Loose

Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

And We Stay

Jenny Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

An Empire for Slavery

Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1751

An Equal Music

Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Nervous Splendor

Frederic Morton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A New Religious America

Diana Eck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Philip Massinger

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1625

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

An Imaginary Life

David Malouf

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1978

Animal Dreams

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Animal Wise

Virginia Morell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1995

Anita and Me

Meera Syal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Anna and the French Kiss

Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Anna And The Swallow Man

Gavriel Savit

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Anna Christie

Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Anna Dressed In Blood

Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998