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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 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 Lives We Never Lived

Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 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

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 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

America for Americans

Erika Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

American Assassin

Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Tim Alberta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

American Fantasy

Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

American Heiress

Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

American Icon

Bryce G. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

American Kings

Seth Wickersham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Million Junes

Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Barbara Oakley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Month of Summer

Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Agreeable Murder

Julia Seales

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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