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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

A Real Durwan
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

A Report to an Academy
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1917

A Respectable Woman
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1894

A Retrieved Reformation
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1903

A Rip in Heaven
Jeanine Cummins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1976

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

A Room with a View
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1930

A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Race
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Race and Reunion
David W. Blight

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Ragged Company
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1868

Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Rain of Gold
Victor Villaseñor

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Ramona the Brave
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Ramona the Pest
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

Random Family
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1844

Rashomon
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1915

Raymie Nightingale
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Raymond's Run
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 24

Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reaching Out
Francisco Jiménez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Reading with Patrick
Michelle Kuo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Reality Boy
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Recitatif
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Recursion
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Redefining realness: My path to womanhood, identity, love, & so much more
Janet Mock

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Redeployment
Phil Klay

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Redhead by the Side of the Road
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Red Kayak
Priscilla Cummings

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Red Rising
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Red River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Red Scarf Girl
Ji-li Jiang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Redwall
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Red, White, and Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Reflections in a Golden Eye
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Paul Rabinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Reflections On The Revolution In France
Edmund Burke

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1790

Refugee
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2003

Regretting You
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Remember
Christina Georgina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Remember
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Rent
Jonathan Larson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Requiem
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Requiem
Anna Akhmatova

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Noam Chomsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Reservation Love Song
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Resistance
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Restart
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Return to Sender
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1393

Reviving Ophelia
Mary Pipher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life
David Treuer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Rhetoric
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | BCE

Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1897

Rich People Problems
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Riding Freedom
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Riding The Bus With My Sister
Rachel Simon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Rifleman Dodd
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

Righteous Dopefiend
Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1819

Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas Brinkley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Elizabeth Rush

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Eli Saslow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Road to Chlifa
Michele Marineau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Roman Fever
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1934