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The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
P.T. Barnum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Art of Resistance
Justus Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Art of Rhetoric
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Art of Secrets
James Klise

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene and Joost Elffers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Art of the Commonplace
Wendell Berry

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring
Gary Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Art of War
Sun Zi (also written in English as Sun Tzu)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 512

The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
Baltasar Gracián

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Art Thief
Noah Charney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Aspern Papers
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1888

The Assassins of Rome (Roman Mysteries, #4)
Caroline Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Assault
Harry Mulisch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Assistant
Robert Walser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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 Color of After
Emily X. R. Pan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Astronaut Wives Club
Lily Koppel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Athenian Constitution
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Athenian Murders
José Carlos Somoza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Atlantic Sound
Caryl Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Atlantis Complex
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Atlantis Gene
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Atlantis Plague
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Atlantis World (The Origin Mystery, #3)
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Atlas Complex
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Atlas Paradox
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Atomic City Girls
Janet Beard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Atonement Child
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The A to Z of You and Me
James Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Atrocity Archives
Charles Stross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Attack
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

The Au Pair
Emma Rous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Au Pair Affair
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Authenticity Project
Clare Pooley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Oscar Zeta Acosta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Autobiography of a Flea
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1933

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Autobiography of an Execution
David R. Dow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Ian Jack

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

The Autobiography of George Muller
George Müller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1931

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley, Malcolm X

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Autograph Man
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
David Bach

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Awakening
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Awakening of Malcolm X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Awakening of Miss Prim
Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries #1)
L.J. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Awakening (Vampire Huntress Legend, #2)
L.A. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Ax
Donald E. Westlake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Ayah's Tale: a novella of British Colonial India
Sujata Massey

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013