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Abandoned Farmhouse
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Abduction!
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Abel's Island
William Steig

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1988

Abend Der Worte
Paul Celan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1950

Abeng
Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

About Grace
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Absolutely Almost
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Absolutely Normal Chaos
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Absolution
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Abuelito Who
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Acceleration
Graham McNamee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Across a Hundred Mountains
Reyna Grande

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Across the Desert
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Act of Union
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Adam's Song
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Adelaide
Genevieve Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Adonais
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Advice to My Son
Peter Meinke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Africa Kills Her Sun
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Afro-Latina
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

After
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

After (After, #1)
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

After Annie
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

After Apple-picking
Robert Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult

After Dark
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

After Ever After
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

After the First Death
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

After Twenty Years
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

After We Collided (After, #2)
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Again Later
Martha Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1966

Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
Aeschylus, Philip de May, P.E. Easterling

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Agnes Grey
Angeline Goreau, Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Agricola
A.J. Woodman, C.S. Kraus, Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Ahimsa
Supriya Kelkar

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2022

Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1851

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Airborn (Matt Cruse, #1)
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
Sophocles, Shomit Dutta

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Alabama Moon (Alabama Moon, #1)
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
Pat Frank, David Brin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Alcestis
William Arrowsmith, Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1865

Ali Cross (Ali Cross, #1)
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1975

All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

All Adults Here
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

All American Boys
Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

All Boys Aren’t Blue
George M. Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Allegory Of The Cave
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter, Megan Wagner Lloyd, Illustr. Michelle Mee Nutter

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

All Fours
Miranda July

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

All Good People Here
Ashley Flowers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

All Her Little Secrets
Wanda M. Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

All I Asking for Is My Body
Franklin Odo, Milton Murayama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Allies
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

All My Sons
Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

All Over But the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998