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

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984 books starting with "A"

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The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
by E.A. Hanks
Apr 08 2025
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The 10 PM Question
by Kate De Goldi
Sep 28 2010
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10 Things I Can See From Here
by Carrie Mac
Feb 28 2017
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10:04: A Novel
by Ben Lerner
Sep 02 2014
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100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
by Ken Jennings
Jun 13 2023
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The 100 Year Miracle
by Ashley Ream
May 24 2016
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100,000 First Bosses: My Unlikely Path as a 22-Year-Old Lawmaker
by Will Haskell
Jan 18 2022
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1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die
by Patricia Schultz
Jun 07 2007
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
by Jennet Conant
May 01 2005
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11/22/63: A Novel
by Stephen King
Nov 08 2011
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1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel
by Anne Holt
Dec 27 2011
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13 1/2
by Nevada Barr
Sep 29 2009
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
by Mona Awad
Feb 23 2016
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13, rue Thérèse: A Novel
by Elena Mauli Shapiro
Feb 02 2011
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1356: A Novel
by Bernard Cornwell
Jan 08 2013
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The 13th Hour: A Thriller
by Richard Doetsch
Dec 29 2009
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14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
by DW Gibson
Jul 07 2020
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142 Ostriches
by April Davila
Feb 25 2020
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann
Aug 09 2011
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15 Seconds
by Andrew Gross
Jul 10 2012
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16 & Pregnant: A Novel
by LaLa Thomas
Jan 03 2023
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1616: The World in Motion
by Thomas Christensen
Mar 13 2012
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nov 16 2021
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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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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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