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O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

OCDaniel
Wesley King

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

October
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

October in the Chair
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1768

Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

Ode to Dirt
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Ode to Teachers
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode to Walt Whitman
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Oedipus
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 60

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Mawi Asgedom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2001

Of Love And Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1937

Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
William Bradford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1651

Of the Threads that Connect the Stars
Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oh, William
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oil on Water
Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Old Love
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Old Man at the Bridge
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

Old Pond
Basho

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1686

Old School
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Old Yeller
Fred Gipson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Olga Dies Dreaming
Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

On Anger
Rage Hezekiah

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

On Beauty
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

On Being Brought from Africa to America
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Once
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Once by the Pacific
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Once More to the Lake
E. B. White

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Once There Were Wolves
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Once Upon a River
Diane Setterfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Once Upon a Time
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Once We Were Brothers
Ronald H. Balson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

On Christian Doctrine
Augustine of Hippo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On Death and Dying
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

On Dreams
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

One Amazing Thing
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One by One
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

One Day in December
Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One for the Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One Of Ours
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

One of Us is Lying
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

One of Us Is Next
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

One Second After
William Forstchen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
Stephanie Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

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

On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

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 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 Far Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

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 Road
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

On the Soul
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

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

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

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

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

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