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Run, Rose, Run
Dolly Parton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

R.U.R.
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Ruth
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Rachel Incident
Caroline O'Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Racial Contract
Charles W. Mills

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Racketeer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Radical and the Republican
James Oakes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Raft
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rainmaker
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R. K. Narayan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1907

The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1594

The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1712

The Rats In The Walls
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Reading List
Sara Nisha Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Real Thing
Henry James

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Reckoning
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1895

The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Red Convertible
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Red Pony
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1933

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Ida B. Wells

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

The Red Shoes
Sheila Black

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Sweater
Joseph O. Legaspi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Red Umbrella
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Rememberer
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Report Card
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Reptile Room
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Republic
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Return of Ellie Black
Emiko Jean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Return of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Revolt Of Mother
Mary Wilkins Freeman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
Sonia Manzano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

The Rez Sisters
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

The Richest Man in Babylon
George Samuel Clason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Elizabeth Letts

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Rider
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1791

The Rights of the Colonists
Samuel Adams

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1772

The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Rig Veda: An Anthology
Transl. Wendy Doniger, Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

the rites for Cousin Vit
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

The Ritual: A Dark College Romance
Shantel Tessier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The River
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The River
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The River Between
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The River Between Us
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Road
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Road to Character
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Road to Mecca
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Road To Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1937

The Roar
Emma Clayton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Roaring Girl
Greg Hollingshead

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Rock and The River
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Rocking Horse Winner
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1926

The Rockpile
James Baldwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965