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A Rage for Order
Robert F. Worth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Remarkable Woman
Anne Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

A Replacement Life
Boris Fishman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Rabbit at Rest
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor's Story
David Shurter

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rabbit Redux
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rabbit, Run
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Race for Profit
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Race in America
Matthew Desmond, Mustafa Emirbayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Marc Mauer, Sabrina Jones

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Radiance of Tomorrow
Ishmael Beah

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Radical Candor
Kim Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Radical Evolution
Joel Garreau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Radioactive Boy Scout
Ken Silverstein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Radio Free Dixie
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Raiders Night
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA

Rainbow Boys
Alex Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA

Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Raining Sardines
Enrique Flores-Galbis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Rain Village
Carolyn Turgeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ramayana: A Retelling
Daljit Nagra

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Rameau's Nephew
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
Warren St. John

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ramona
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Ramona Quimby Age 8
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Ransom
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rape Fantasies
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era
Sterling North

Fiction | Novel | YA

Rat Life
Tedd Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA

Rattlebone
Maxine Clair

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Raven's Gate
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Raw
Belle Aurora

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Reached
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | YA

Real American
Julie Lythcott-Haims

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Reaping the Whirlwind
Rosey Dow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Rear Window
Cornell Woolrich

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Reason for Hope
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Red Azalea
Anchee Min

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
Sandra Dallas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Red Cap
G. Clifton Wisler

Fiction | Novel | YA

Red Card
Daniel J. Hale, Matthew LaBrot

Fiction | Novel | YA

Redchapel
Mike Resnick

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Red Doc>
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Red Dragon
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Redemption
Julie Chibbaro

Fiction | Novel | YA

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Rosemary Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA

Red Sky at Morning
Richard Bradford

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Red Sorghum
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Reefer Madness
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Refuge
Dot Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Refund
Karen E. Bender

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Regeneration
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Reinventing Government
Ted Gaebler, David Osborne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Rejection Proof
Jia Jang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Religio Medici
Sir Thomas Browne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Remember Me Like This
Bret Anthony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Renia's Diary
Renia Spiegel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Reputations
Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rescuing Jeffrey
Richard Galli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Resilience
Amy Eleanor Heart, ed., Larissa Glasser, ed., Sugi Pyrrophyta, ed.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
Mihir S. Sharma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Revelation
C. J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Revolution
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Ying Chang Compestine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Rewind
William Sleator

Fiction | Novel | YA

Reynard the Fox
Robert van Genechten

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rezso Kasztner
Ladislaus Löb

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult

Rice Without Rain
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Richard II
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Richard III
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Richard Rive
Shaun Viljoen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Richistan
Robert Frank

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Rich Lizard: And Other Poems
Deborah Chandra

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult

Rikers High
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA

Rikki Tikki Tavi
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Ringworld
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ripper
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Rise Again!
Robert J. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult