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Obasan
Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Rachel Simmons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Odds Against
Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Odour of Chrysanthemums
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Of Nightingales That Weep
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | YA

Of Poseidon
Anna Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA

Of Sound Mind
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | YA

Oh, Beautiful
John Paul Godges

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Old Filth
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Oleanna
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult

Olive's Ocean
Kevin Henkes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Omon Ra
Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Omoo
Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

On a Pale Horse
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On Borrowed Time
Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult

On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Once Upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Clifton L. Taulbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

One Came Home
Amy Timberlake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

One Child
Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA

One Foot in Eden
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One! Hundred! Demons!
Lynda Barry

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

One L
Scott Turow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

One Life: My Mother's Story
Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

One Minute to Midnight
Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One of Us
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

One Shot at Forever
Chris Ballard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

One Thousand White Women
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult

One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

Fiction | Play | Adult

On Gold Mountain
Lisa See

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

On Hitler's Mountain
Irmgard Hunt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Only Ever Yours
Louise O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | YA

Only the Animals
Ceridwen Dovey

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

On Photography
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

On the Beach
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult

On the Wings of Heroes
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

On Trails
Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Open City
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Karen Foxlee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Orientation: And Other Stories
Daniel Orozco

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Origin
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult

Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult

Our Daily Bread
Lauren B. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Our Guys
Bernard Lefkowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Our Savage Neighbors
Peter Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Our Sister Killjoy
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Our Souls At Night
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Our Twisted Hero
Yi Mun-Yol

Fiction | Novel | Adult