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Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Against the Machine

Paul Kingsnorth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

A Game of Retribution

Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Garden to Keep

Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Agatha Christie

Gillian Gill

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Agatha Christie

Lucy Worsley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Agatha Christie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

A Gathering of Old Men

Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Agency

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies

John W. Kingdon

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Agent Sonya

Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Agent Zigzag

Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Age of Ambition

Evan Osnos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Age of Anger

Pankaj Mishra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Age of Iron

John Maxwell Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Gift for Tenderness

Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Agile Practice Guide

Project Management Institute

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Girl Named Zippy

Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

A Good Man in Africa

William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Good Marriage

Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Good Person

Kirsten King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

A Gracious Plenty

Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Great Improvisation

Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

A Great Leap Forward

Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

William Braxton Irvine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (pmbok® Guide)

Project Management Institute

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer

Sena Jeter Naslund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Harvest of Hearts

Andrea Eames

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

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 Full of Headstones

Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Heart So White

Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

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 100 Objects

Neil Macgregor

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Julian Barnes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

A History of Warfare

John Keegan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

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 Horse Named Sky

Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Kirbi Fagan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

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

Airman

Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

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 Killer's Wife

Victor Methos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting

Sophie Irwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Alcestis

Katharine Beutner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Alchemy of the Mind

Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Rory Sutherland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

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

Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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