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Omensetter's Luck
William H. Gass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

Omnivore (Of Man and Manta, #1)
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Omon Ra
Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Omoo
Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

On a Pale Horse
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

On a Quiet Street
Seraphina Nova Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

On a Sunbeam
Tillie Walden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

On Basilisk Station
David Weber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

On Beauty
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

On Beauty and Being Just
Elaine Scarry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

On Becoming a Leader
Warren Bennis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

On Being Ill
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On Borrowed Time
Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Once and Always
Judith McNaught

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Once an Eagle
Anton Myrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Once Burned
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Once in Every Life
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
María Hinojosa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Once More with Feeling
Elissa Sussman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Crime
Peter Ferguson, Michael Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Once Upon a Dream
Liz Braswell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Once Upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Tim
Stuart Gibbs, Illustr. Stacy Curtis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel
Quentin Tarantino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Once We Were Brothers
Ronald H. Balson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Once We Were Home
Jennifer Rosner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

On Christian Liberty (Facets)
Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
Albert Einstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

On Death and Dying
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

On Dreams
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

On Dublin Street
Samantha Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On Duties
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One Breath Away
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

One by One
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

One Came Home
Amy Timberlake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

One Child
Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

One Dark Window
Rachel Gillig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

One Day
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

One Day on Beetle Rock
Sally Carrighar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

One Door Away from Heaven
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

On Education
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

One-Eyed Cat
Paula Fox

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

One False Note (The 39 Clues, #2)
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

One Fell Sweep
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

One Fifth Avenue
Candace Bushnell, Donna Murphy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Foot in Eden
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, #2)
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

One for Sorrow
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
Olivia Hawker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One for the Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

One Good Deed
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

One Grave at a Time
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

One Half from the East
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

One! Hundred! Demons!
Lynda Barry

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2002

One Hundred Names
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

One Indian Girl
Chetan Bhagat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One Last Rainy Day: The Legacy of a Prince
Kate Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One Last Thing Before I Go
Jonathan Tropper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

On Elegance While Sleeping
Vizconde de Lascano Tegui

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Life: My Mother's Story
Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Brian Doyle

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

One Lost Soul
J.M. Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Scott Turow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

One Man's Justice
Akira Yoshimura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999