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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

A Real Durwan
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

A Report to an Academy
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1917

A Respectable Woman
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Retrieved Reformation (Tale Blazers)
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

A Rip in Heaven
Jeanine Cummins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
Rebecca Ross, Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Annie Proulx, Norman Maclean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A River Sutra
Gita Mehta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

A Room with a View
E.M. Forster, E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1990

A Rover's Story
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
Philip Caputo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Race
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Race to the Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Ragged Company
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow, E.L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Rain of Gold
Victor Villaseñor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Rain, Rain, Go Away
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Ramona Quimby Age 8
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

Rashomon
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1915

Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
Jordan Ifueko

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Raymie Nightingale
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Raymond's Run
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 24

Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby, S.A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reaching Out
Francisco Jiménez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Real Americans
Rachel Khong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Real Friends
Shannon Hale, Illustr. LeUyen Pham

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Reality Boy
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Really Good, Actually: A Novel
Monica Heisey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Rear Window
Cornell Woolrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Rebound (The Crossover, #0.5)
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Published in 2018

Recitatif
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Recursion
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Red Azalea: A Memoir
Anchee Min

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
Thomas Harris, Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Redeployment
Phil Klay

Fiction | Short Story | 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 | Published in 2006

Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Red Rising
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Red River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Red Scarf Girl
Ji-li Jiang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Redwall (Redwall, #1)
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Red, White, and Whole
Rajani LaRocca

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Reflections in a Golden Eye
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke, L.G. Mitchell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Refugee
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Regret
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2011

Regretting You
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

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

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Requiem
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Requiem
Anna Akhmatova

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Requiem for a Dream
Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky, Richard Price

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999