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Book summaries of the best fiction and nonfiction books starting with the letter "A"

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1375 books starting with "A"

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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
by Susan Cheever
Dec 19 2006
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American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
Oct 30 2007
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An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
by Phyllis Chesler
Oct 01 2013
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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
by Steven Rinella
Dec 02 2008
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American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
by Shahan Mufti
Nov 22 2022
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American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
by Matt Farwell and Michael Ames
Mar 12 2019
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The American Civil War: A Military History
by John Keegan
Oct 20 2009
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
by Alan Taylor
May 21 2024
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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
by H.W. Brands
Oct 12 2010
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American Copper
by Shann Ray
Nov 03 2015
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
by Joseph J. Ellis
Oct 30 2007
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American Crow: A Novel
by Ryan Burruss
Oct 06 2026
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The American Daughters: A Novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Feb 27 2024
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American Delirium
by Betina González
Feb 16 2021
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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
by Daniel Stashower
Sep 06 2022
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American Detective: An Amos Walker Novel
by Loren D. Estleman
Apr 03 2007
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An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
by David Finkel
Feb 13 2024
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American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
by Karen Harper
Feb 26 2019
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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
by David Baron
Jun 06 2017
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American Estrangement
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Aug 10 2021
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An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
by Khizr Khan
Oct 24 2017
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by Monica Hesse
Jul 11 2017
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The American Future: A History
by Simon Schama
Jun 01 2009
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The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse
by S. L. Price
May 20 2025
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American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by Hannah Nordhaus
Mar 10 2015
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American Girls
by Alison Umminger
Jun 07 2016
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American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
by Ted Steinberg & Theodore Steinberg
Mar 06 2006
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American Grief in Four Stages
by Sadie Hoagland
Nov 01 2019
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American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
Sep 26 2023
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American Hagwon
by Min Jin Lee
Sep 29 2026
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    When No One Else Will
    by Amanda Skenandore
    1940s Chicago nurse risks everything at an illegal women’s clinic during a high-profile trial of courage and sisterhood.
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    A Pair of Aces
    by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
    Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

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    A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
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    Summer's Never Over
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    A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
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    The Jellyfish Problem
    by Tessa Yang
    A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.
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    Feast
    by Catherine Kurtz
    In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
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