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One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

One Thousand Dollars
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1919

One Today
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

One Two Three
Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
Peter Lynch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

On Fairy-Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1939

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

On Free Choice Of The Will
Transl. Thomas Williams, Augustine of Hippo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 395

On Friendship
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1769

On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

On Imagination
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

On Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1830

On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

On Justice Power and Human Nature
Transl. Paul Woodruff, Thucydides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Dave Grossman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Only If You're Lucky
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Only the Beautiful
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

On Mystic Lake
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

On Photography
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

On Revolution
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

On Such A Full Sea
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1937

On the Beach
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

On the Come Up
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

On the Devil's Court
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Andrew Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

On the Equality of the Sexes
Judith Sargent Murray

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1790

On the Far Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

On the Move
Thom Gunn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

On The Nature Of Things
Lucretius

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1910

On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1859

On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

On the Shortness of Life
Seneca

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 49

On the Soul
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On the Sublime
Longinus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 100

On the train the woman standing
Claudia Rankine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

On Turning Ten
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

On War
Carl von Clausewitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Open
Andre Agassi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Open City
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Lauren Slater

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Operation Sisterhood
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Opposite of Always
Justin A. Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Walter J. Ong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Oranges
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Oration on the Dignity of Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1496

Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ordinary Hazards
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | YA | Published in 2019

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Ordinary People
Judith Guest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Orestes
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 409

Orientalism
Edward Said

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Origin
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Oroonoko
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1688

Orphan Island
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Other Birds
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Otherwise
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Other Words for Home
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Our Country Friends
Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle S. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
Holger Rathgeber, John Kotter, Illustr. Peter Mueller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Ourika
Claire de Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1823

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D. Putnam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Our Sister Killjoy
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977