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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

A Line to Kill
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Alito
Mollie Hemingway

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Little Piece of Ground
Elizabeth Laird

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

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 Fall Down
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

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 in Her Head
Elizabeth Comen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Mine I Carry With Me
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Darragh Mckeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

All That Remains
Sue Black

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Devils Are Here
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Living and the Dead
Hayley Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Noise at Once
Deandra Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

All These Worlds
Dennis E. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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

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 Things Wise and Wonderful
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

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 We Say
Ben Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Almost Life
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Long Game
Elizabeth McCracken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Along the Infinite Sea
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Long Time Coming
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Always, Clementine
Carlie Sorosiak

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Always Looking Up
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

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

A Map of Days
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Map of Future Ruins
Lauren Markham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Amari and the Despicable Wonders
B. B. Alston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

A Matter of Malice
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

A Memory of Light
Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

America, América
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025