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1375 books starting with "A"

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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
by Mary Beth Norton
Feb 11 2020
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1775: A Good Year for Revolution
by Kevin Phillips
Nov 27 2012
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1776
by David McCullough
May 22 2005
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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
by Bruce Goldfarb
Feb 04 2020
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
by Billy Collins (editor)
Mar 25 2008
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
by Liaquat Ahamed
Jun 02 2026
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1876
by Gore Vidal
Feb 12 1976
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1919 The Year That Changed America
by Martin W. Sandler
Jan 08 2019
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1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar
by Eric Burns
May 15 2015
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1922
by Stephen King
Nov 12 2019
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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Oct 14 2025
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1948: A Soldier's Tale - The Bloody Road to Jerusalem
by Uri Avnery
Feb 25 2009
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1974: A Personal History
by Francine Prose
Jun 18 2024
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1984: 75th Anniversary
by George Orwell
Jul 01 1977
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1989 (An Allie Burns Novel, 2)
by Val McDermid
Oct 11 2022
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2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
by Marie-Helene Bertino
Aug 05 2014
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
Dec 30 1998
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Penguin Galaxy)
by Arthur C. Clarke
Oct 25 2016
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2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
by Albert Brooks
Apr 10 2012
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2034: A Novel of the Next World War
by Elliot Ackerman
Mar 08 2022
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206 Bones: A Novel
by Kathy Reichs
Aug 25 2009
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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
Oct 16 2007
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Sep 04 2018
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23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Record-Breaking Victory
by John Wilcockson
Jun 14 2005
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
Jan 04 2011
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2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
May 22 2012
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24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy
by Nora Neus
Jul 18 2023
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25 Ways to Win With People: How to Make Others Feel like a Million Bucks
by John Maxwell and Les Parrot
Jun 06 2005
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2666: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
Nov 11 2008
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
by Rachel L. Swarns
Jun 13 2023
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