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

Book Summaries

1085 books starting with "A"

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American Rust
by Philipp Meyer
Feb 24 2009

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American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
by Robert W. Fieseler
Jun 17 2025

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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
by Kate Winkler Dawson
Feb 11 2020

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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
by Kevin Hazzard
Sep 20 2022

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American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
by Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice
Apr 02 2019

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American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation
by Barb Rosenstock
Apr 15 2025

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Erased
by Anna Malaika Tubbs

In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.

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Songs of Summer
by Jane L. Rosen

A young woman crashes a Fire Island wedding to find her birth mother—and gets more than she bargained for.

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The Original Daughter
by Jemimah Wei

A dazzling debut by Jemimah Wei about ambition, sisterhood, and family bonds in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

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Awake in the Floating City
by Susanna Kwan

A debut novel about an artist and a 130-year-old woman bound by love and memory in a future, flooded San Francisco.

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