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The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Alex Crow
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Almost Sisters
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Leonard Shlain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Amateur
Robert Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Ambassadors
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The American
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

The American Heiress
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

The American Political Tradition
Richard Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Anatomy of Wings
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

The Angelic Year
Ambika Wauters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Anti-Politics Machine
James Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Apocalypse Now Book
Peter Cowie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Appeal
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Appointment
Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Architect's Apprentice
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Art Forger
B A. Shapiro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Artist of Disappearance
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Art of Being Normal
Lisa Williamson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Art of Deception
Stephanie Burgis

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Fiction
John Gardner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Art of Keeping Cool
Janet Taylor Lisle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Art of Love
A.B. Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Art of Resistance
Justus Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Art of the Commonplace
Wendell Berry

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Art of the Personal Essay
Phillip Lopate

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

The Art of the Wasted Day
Patricia Hampl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Ash Garden
Dennis Bock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Assistant
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Associate
Phillip Margolin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Association of Small Bombs
Karan Mahajan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Atlantis Plague
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

The Auroras of Autumn
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1950

The Auschwitz Escape
Joel C. Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Austere Academy
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Oscar Zeta Acosta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Autobiography of an Execution
David R. Dow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1931

The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Autobiography of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ball and the Cross
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Baltimore Waltz
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Bamboo Dancers
N. V. M. Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Bark Tree
Raymond Queneau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Basement Room
Graham Greene

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1935

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Bat Poet
Randall Jarrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Battle for Christmas
Stephen Nissenbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Battle of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Beach Trees
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Beast in the Garden
David Baron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Beatles
Bob Spitz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Beautiful Side of Evil
Johanna Michaelsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

The Beauty and the Sorrow
Peter Englund

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Joel Ben Izzy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

The Beggar Maid
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

The Beggar's Opera
John Gay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1728

The Behavior of the Hawkweeds
Andrea Barrett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

The Believers
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Belle of Amherst
William Luce

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Bells
Richard Harvell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Berlin Wall
Frederick Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Best And The Brightest
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Bicycle Diaries
David Kroodsma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Big Bad Wolf
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Big Money
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Big Necessity
Rose George

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005