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As Simple As Snow
Gregory Galloway

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
Tanya Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Assumption
Aurora Rose Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

As Sure as the Dawn (Mark of the Lion, #3)
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Asterix the Gaul
Derek Hockridge, René Goscinny, Anthea Bell, Albert Uderzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

As the Crow Flies
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted
John Cassaday, Joss Whedon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Peter Stark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Astray
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Astronaut Academy: Re-entry (Astronaut Academy, 2)
Dave Roman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Astronomer's Wife
Kay Boyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1591

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

As Waters Gone By
Cynthia Ruchti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Asylum
Patrick McGrath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Asylum for Nightface
Bruce Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Erving Goffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume II
Jacana Media

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Joe Layden, Cary Elwes, Rob Reiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Atala
François-René de Chateaubriand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Atalanta
Jennifer Saint

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

At Any Price
Brenna Aubrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #10)
Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Gordon W. Prange

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
A. Roger Ekirch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

At First Sight
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

At Freddie's
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

At Gettysburg; Or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle
Matilda Pierce Alleman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

At Grave's End
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Athlete Vs. Mathlete
W.C. Mack

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years, #1)
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Atlantis Found
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Atmospheric Disturbances
Rivka Galchen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

At Night All Blood Is Black: A Novel
David Diop, Transl. Anna Moschovakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

At Peace
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine, Rachel S.F. Heller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Attachments
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Attack of the Black Rectangles
Amy Sarig King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Attack Of The Black Rectangles
A.S King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Attack of the Fiend
Patrick Arrasmith, Joseph Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part 1 (Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, #1)
Hajime Isayama, Ryo Kawakami

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Hajime Isayama, Sheldon Drzka

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Attack on Titan, Vol. 2
Hajime Isayama

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Attack on Titan, Vol. 3
Hajime Isayama

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Attack on Titan, Vol. 4
Hajime Isayama

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Attack on Titan, Vol. 5
Hajime Isayama

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Attack on Titan, Vol. 6
Hajime Isayama

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

At the Bay
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

At the Bottom of the World (Jack and the Geniuses, #1)
Bill Nye, Gregory Mone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

At the Edge of the Orchard
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

At the Full and Change of the Moon
Dionne Brand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Philip Dray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

At the Mountains of Madness
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

At the Water's Edge
Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Audacity Jones to the Rescue (Audacity Jones #1)
Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Audrey Rose
Frank De Felitta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Robin Lane Fox

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1966

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
Peter Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Augustown: A Novel
Kei Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Augustus
John Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #1)
Nancy Atherton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)
Edward Everett Tanner III

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Aura
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1962

Au Revoir Crazy European Chick
Joe Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
Amie Kaufman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

Aurora Rising
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Aurora's End
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklós Nyiszli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Auschwitz and After
Charlotte Delbo

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Austenland
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Authority: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Autobiography
John Cowper Powys

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1791

Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005