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Titles for Children

  • William Shakespeare
  • Who Was Edgar Allen Poe?
  • The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown
  • Jane Austen
  • Who Was Mark Twain?
  • Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott
  • Little Author in the Big Woods
  • The Road to Oz
  • A Voice of Her Own
  • Kid Authors
  • Grace Lin
  • A River of Words
  • Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Journey That Saved Curious George
  • Zora!
  • Exquisite
  • Feed Your Mind
  • 26 Fairmont Avenue
  • Charles Schulz
  • Planting Stories
  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
  • Amanda Gorman
  • The Fabled Life of Aesop
  • Brown Girl Dreaming
  • Who is R. L. Stine?
  • Saving the Countryside
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • My Father's Dragon
  • Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Little Women
  • The Cricket in Time Square
  • The Moffats
  • The Willoughbys
  • The Littles
  • Bud, Not Buddy
  • Julie of the Wolves
  • Charlotte's Web
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • Esperanza Rising
  • The BFG
  • Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
  • Cool Backyard Grilling
  • Adventurous Eats
  • Cool Raw Food Recipes
  • Plant, Cook, Eat!
  • Cooking Skills
  • The Forest Feast for Kids
  • Super Good Baking for Kids
  • National Geographic Kids Cook Book
  • Bake, Make & Learn to Cook
  • Kid Chef
  • The No-Cook Cookbook
  • The Complete Cookbook for Young Scientists
  • Cooking Class Global Feast
  • The Vegetarian Cookbook
  • The Munch Munch Cookbook for Kids
  • The Best Ever Bread Book
  • Cool Dairy-Free Recipes
  • The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs
  • Slurpable Smoothies and Drinks
  • Kid in the Kitchen
  • Foolproof in the Kitchen
  • Awesome Snacks and Appetizers
  • Tasty Sandwiches
  • Cook It! The Dr. Seuss Cookbook for Kid Chefs
  • Grab-and-Go Eats
  • My Vegan Year
  • The Disney Princess Cookbook
  • A Duck in a Sock
  • Six Days at Camp with Jack and Max
  • Zapato Power
  • Noises in Space
  • Andy Shane is NOT in Love
  • Terror in Tights
  • Rich
  • Fox Hunt
  • Back to the Past
  • The Last Task
  • Horseback Hopes
  • Free Climb
  • Frank and the Skunk
  • The Gold of Black Rock Hill
  • Doubles Troubles
  • The Prince, the Cook, and the Cunning King
  • Shipwreck!
  • Mr. Wolf Bounces Back
  • Fireborn
  • Root Magic
  • Children of the Fox
  • The Edge of Strange Hollow
  • The Hungry Ghosts
  • Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed!
  • Cathedral of Bones
  • The Last Rabbit
  • One Jar of Magic
  • Oddity
  • Da Vinci's Cat
  • Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
  • Healer of the Water Monster
  • Curse of the Phoenix
  • The Hatmakers
  • The Last Windwitch
  • Gussy
  • How to Save a Queendom
  • The Dreamweavers
  • Wilderlore: The Accidental Apprentice
  • The Plentiful Darkness
  • The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (As Told to His Brother)
  • The Coming Storm
  • Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales
  • Amari and the Night Brothers
  • The Gilded Girl
  • The Other Side of Luck
  • Nightingale
  • The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo
  • Witches of Brooklyn
  • Scary Godmother
  • Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter
  • Over the Garden Wall
  • Fake Blood
  • The Drained Brains Caper
  • The Lunch Witch
  • Stitched: The First Day of the Rest of Her Life
  • The Sleepover
  • Camp Midnight
  • Baba Yaga's Assistant
  • Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter
  • The Lost Path
  • All My Friends Are Ghosts
  • Ghost Friends Forever
  • House of Fear
  • Just Beyond: The Horror at Happy Landings
  • The Prisoner of Shiverstone
  • Suee and the Shadow
  • Took
  • The Creeps: Night of the Frankenfrogs
  • Hex Vet: Witches in Training
  • Hotel Dare
  • Secrets of Camp Whatever
  • Beetle & the Hollowbones
  • That One Spooky Night
  • The Ghoul Next Door
  • Wizards of Once
  • Aru Shah and the End of Time
  • Dragon Rider
  • The Revenge of Magic
  • Keeper Of The Lost Cities
  • Cathedral of Bones
  • How to Save a Queendom
  • Jinx
  • The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
  • The Forbidden Library
  • Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
  • The Iron Trial
  • Amari and the Night Brothers
  • The Dragon Path
  • The Lost Legacy
  • Magyk
  • Force of Fire
  • Thieves of Weirdwood
  • Ada Twist, Scientist
  • What Do You Do With an Idea?
  • Cleonardo, the Little Inventor
  • The Most Magnificent Thing
  • Changes, Changes
  • Boxitects
  • The Crayon Man
  • If I Built a Car
  • Just Like Robe Goldberg
  • Dreaming Up
  • Count on Me
  • Magnolia Mudd and the Super Jumptastic Launcher Deluxe
  • Jabari Tries
  • Awesome Dawson
  • Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem
  • Oh No!
  • Iggy Peck, Architect
  • Gus's Garage
  • The Little Red Fort
  • Survival Guide: Lost in the Mountains
  • Tangled in the Rainforest
  • Can You Survive the Schoolchildren's Blizzard?
  • Explore: The Most Dangerous Journeys of All Time
  • How to Survive in the Wilderness
  • Finding Food and Water
  • How to Survive an Earthquake
  • Surviving the Wilderness
  • Maker Comics: Survive in the Outdoors
  • Go Wild: Be an Explorer
  • Can You Survive the Wilderness
  • How to Survive in the Rainforest
  • How to Be a World Explorer
  • How to Survive in the Ocean
  • How to Survive on a Mountain
  • In an Emergency
  • How to Survive a Tsunami
  • Survivors: Into the Wilderness
  • How to Survive on a Deserted Island
  • Go Wild: Be a Survivor
  • How to Survive Being Lost at Sea
  • The Science of Survival
  • Wilderness Survival
  • Finding Your Way
  • Stranded on an Island
  • Take Your Pick of Survival Situations
  • Can You Survive Extreme Mountain Climbing
  • City of the Plague God
  • Goddess Girls: Athena the Brain
  • Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good
  • Girl Giant and the Monkey King
  • Zeus the Mighty: The Quest for the Golden Fleas
  • The Shadow Thieves
  • Fenris & Mott
  • The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable Fib
  • The Red Sun
  • Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom
  • Beasts of Olympus: Beast Keeper
  • The Serpent's Secret
  • Race to the Sun
  • Odd and the Frost Giants
  • Have a Hot Time, Hades!
  • The Storm Runner
  • We Belong
  • Valkyrie
  • Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
  • Thor's Wedding Day
  • 9 from the Nine Worlds
  • The Last Fallen Star
  • Momotaro: Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters
  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
  • Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for the Unbreakable Arts
  • Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor
  • Aru Shah and the End of Time
  • Freya and the Magic Jewel

Titles for Teens

  • Laid Back Camp
  • Sleep Princess in the Demon Castle
  • Crumbs
  • Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
  • The Summer of Jordi Perez
  • The Last Dragonslayer
  • Pumpkinheads
  • When Dimple Met Rishi
  • An Abundance of Katherines
  • Batter Royale
  • Catherine Called Birdie
  • Miss Meteor
  • She's the Worst
  • Everything Leads to You
  • Whiteout
  • Sofi and the Bone Song
  • My Sister and the Cat
  • So This is Ever After
  • 10 Blind Dates
  • Cafe con Lychee
  • Love & Gelato
  • Kind of a Big Deal
  • The Witch King
  • Wintersong
  • A Dark and Hollow Star
  • Euphoria Kids
  • Ash
  • The Daughters of Ys
  • Master of One
  • An Enchantment of Ravens
  • The Iron King
  • Mechanica
  • The Call
  • Seven Black Diamonds
  • Spindle Fire
  • The Falconer
  • The Darkest Part of the Forest
  • The Wish Granter
  • Briar Heart
  • Stolen Songbird
  • The Girl Who Never Was
  • Furyborn
  • How to Succeed in Witchcraft
  • Daughter of the Pirate King
  • Legendborn
  • The Girl Beneath the Sea
  • Belle Revolte
  • Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
  • The Gilded Ones
  • Witchy
  • Seraphina
  • Caraval
  • Year of the Reaper
  • Dealing with Dragons
  • The Amulet of Samarkand
  • Steelheart
  • Beasts of Prey
  • The Hazel Wood
  • Hotel Magnifique
  • Furyborn
  • Not Even Bones
  • Eragon
  • The Crimson Canes
  • Spellhacker
  • The Gilded Wolves
  • Aurora Rising
  • Loveless
  • The Outsiders
  • Lifetime Passes
  • The Disasters
  • One For All
  • Check, Please! Vol. 1: #Hockey
  • The Raven Boys
  • We Hunt the Flame
  • The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
  • Cemetery Boys
  • Let Me Hear a Rhyme
  • Undead Girl Gang
  • Little Thieves
  • Immoral Code
  • Lore
  • Raybearer
  • Seafire
  • Dress Codes for Small Towns
  • The Good Luck Girls
  • Age of Ultron
  • Wonder Woman: Love is a Battlefield
  • Miles Morales: Straight Out of Brooklyn
  • Crisis of Infinite Earths
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Captain Marvel & The Carol Corps
  • Superman: Up in the Sky
  • A-Force: Warzones!
  • Daredevil: Born Again
  • Batwoman: Haunted Tides
  • The Infinity Gauntlet
  • Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
  • Blade: Blood and Chaos
  • Black Widow: Homecoming
  • Thor: The God Butcher
  • Batgirl: Silent Knight
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Legacy
  • Batman: Hush
  • The Call
  • Go Hunt Me
  • Summer's Edge
  • Our Crooked Hearts
  • The Bone Witch
  • A Night to Die For
  • Teen Frankenstein
  • Hide
  • Survive the Night
  • Carrie
  • The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
  • Horror Hotel
  • Scream Site
  • Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
  • In the Hall with the Knife
  • In the Study with a Wrench
  • In the Ballroom with the Candlestick
  • Horrid
  • What Big Teeth
  • There's Someone Inside Your House
  • Through the Woods
  • Rules for Vanishing
  • Unwind
  • Scythe
  • Flawed
  • The Hunger Games
  • Flame in the Mist
  • The Wrath and the Dawn
  • Legend
  • The Darkest Minds
  • Divergent
  • The Giver
  • Renegades
  • Keeper of the Lost Cities
  • The Raven Boys
  • Sky Raiders
  • Zodiac
  • The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
  • Legendborn
  • How Not to Fall in Love
  • Tweet Cute
  • The Henna Wars
  • Castle in the Clouds
  • Unwind
  • A Phở Love Story
  • You've Reached Sam
  • Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
  • More Than Maybe
  • My Fine Fellow
  • Daughter of the Moon Goddess
  • Coming Back
  • Love from Scratch
  • The Moon and More
  • To All the Boys I've Loved Before
  • Anna and the French Kiss
  • Perfect Chemistry
  • The Geography of You and Me
  • Everything, Everything
  • After
  • Autoboyagraphy
  • Romeo & What's Her Name
  • Sick Kids in Love
  • Birthday
  • The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
  • Let's Talk About Love
  • Slammed
  • Generation One
  • Alive
  • Escaping Eleven
  • The Actual Star
  • Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
  • After the Fire
  • Life
  • Generation Witch
  • Mercury
  • The Abandoned Empress
  • Conversion
  • Greenwood
  • Flight
  • The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong
  • Unspoken
  • The Love That Split the World
  • The Chosen One
  • A Million Junes
  • Three Dark Crowns
  • The Diminished
  • Hotel Magnifique
  • Stranger
  • Generation One
  • Generation Witch
  • Mercury
  • Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
  • A Million Junes
  • Three Dark Crowns
  • The Name of the Star
  • Stranger
  • The Counterfeit Family of Vee Crawford-Wong
  • Conversion
  • The Name of the Star
  • After the Fire
  • The Abandoned Empress
  • Elatsoe
  • Flight
  • Hotel Magnifique
  • Unspoken
  • Life
  • The Chosen One
  • Greenwood
  • The Actual Star
  • The Diminished
  • Escaping Eleven

Titles for Adults

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • All Boys Aren't Blue
  • Lawn Boy
  • The Hate U Give
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • Maus
  • The Bluest Eye
  • Gender Queer
  • Out of Darkness
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
  • In the Dream House
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Invisible Man
  • The Great Gatsby
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Death of the Heart
  • Things Fall Apart
  • 1984
  • Frankenstein
  • Great Expectations
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Another Country
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Get a Life, Chloe Brown
  • Roll With It
  • Just Ask!
  • The Pretty One
  • Silent Days, Silent Dreams
  • We're All Wonders
  • The Year We Fell Down
  • All the Way to the Top
  • The Oracle Code
  • Demystifying Disability
  • I Talk Like a River
  • Being Seen
  • Being Heumann
  • Nujeen
  • Emmanuel's Dream
  • El Deafo
  • Armond Goes to a Party
  • How to Be Human: Diary of an Autistic Girl
  • She is not Invisible
  • Out of My Mind
  • Five Flavors of Dumb
  • Sitting Pretty
  • We Go in a Circle
  • Autobiography of a Face
  • I Will Dance
  • Rules
  • We Want to Go to School!
  • The Butterfly's Dance
  • The Witches of New York
  • The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
  • Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
  • Wild and Wicked Things
  • A Witch in Time
  • The Once and Future Witches
  • The Year of the Witching
  • Practical Magic
  • A Lullaby for Witches
  • A Wicked and Beautiful Garden
  • The Witch's Heart
  • The Mercies
  • A Secret History of Witches
  • The Familiars
  • Creatures of Charm and Hunger
  • Hex Life: Wicked Tales of New Witchery
  • The Witches of St. Petersburg
  • Spellbook of the Lost and Found
  • Garden Spells
  • Witchmark
  • The Winter Witch
  • The Nature of Witches
  • The Witch of Painted Sorrows
  • The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
  • The Bone Witch
  • A Rush of Wings
  • A Letter to Three Witches
  • The Best We Could Do
  • American Widow
  • Quiet Girl in a Noisy World
  • Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
  • Everything is Teeth
  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
  • Darkroom
  • It Won't Always Be Like This
  • Lighter Than My Shadow
  • Flying Couch
  • The Fire Never Goes Out
  • Calling Dr. Laura
  • Snapshots of a Girl
  • Tangles
  • In-Between Days
  • Forget Sorrow
  • Relish
  • Shuggie Bain
  • Good Eggs
  • Persepolis
  • Detransition, Baby
  • Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
  • Marriage of a Thousand Lies
  • Wild and Wicked Things
  • The House of Impossible Beauties
  • The Animals at Lockwood Manor
  • Bestiary
  • The Confessions of Frannie Langton
  • Willa and Hesper
  • Less
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  • Honey Girl
  • Memorial
  • Let's Get Back to the Party
  • The Other Man
  • The Prophets
  • Red at the Bone
  • Shuggie Bain
  • The Song of Achilles
  • The Thirty Names of Night
  • Hello, Transcriber
  • The Art of Betrayal
  • The Butterfly House
  • Before She Disappeared
  • Arsenic and Adobo
  • Black Widows
  • How to Kill Your Best Friend
  • All These Ashes
  • Autumn Leaves, 1922
  • Lightseekers
  • Darkness Beyond
  • The Damage
  • A Peculiar Combination
  • M, King's Bodyguard
  • The Corpse Flower
  • Aftermath
  • Bones of Hilo
  • The Good Death
  • The Bucket List
  • A Deadly Fortune
  • Central Park
  • The Historians
  • The Jigsaw Man
  • Killer Content
  • Lady Sunshine
  • Clark and Division
  • The House on Vesper Sands
  • The Echo Man
  • All That's Left Unsaid
  • Murder in Westminster
  • Wild and Wicked Things
  • A Death in Door County
  • After the Hurricane
  • A Deadly Bone to Pick
  • The Houseboat
  • The Art of Decoy
  • The Fields
  • The Lady with the Gun Asks
  • The Other Guest
  • Kalmann
  • The Bangalore Detectives Club
  • The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way
  • Miss Aldridge Regrets
  • Cleopatra's Dagger
  • No Strangers Here
  • In Place of Fear
  • Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories
  • Nightchaser
  • In the Garden Trilogy Collection
  • The Marriage Game
  • The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels & Other Gentlemen
  • Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
  • Shiver
  • The Duchess Deal
  • Sweet Talkin' Lover
  • Bared to You
  • Boyfriend Material
  • The Kiss Quotient
  • First Grave on the Right
  • The Wedding Date
  • Get a Life, Chloe Brown
  • For the Roses
  • The Right Swipe
  • Looking for Leroy
  • Baby Love
  • Do or Die
  • At the Quiet Edge
  • Catch Her When She Falls
  • The Gatekeeper
  • Like a Sister
  • The Accomplice
  • Girl in Ice
  • Killer View
  • The Hunted
  • The Lost Kings
  • The Chase
  • The Pallbearers Club
  • Blood Will Tell
  • The Night They Vanished
  • Scorpion
  • Every Vow You Break
  • The Lamplighters
  • The Fall Girl
  • When You Are Mine
  • An Honest Lie