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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Liz Cheney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Oath of Loyalty
Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Oath of Office (Jack Ryan Universe #26)
Marc Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Obasan
Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Object Lessons
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Oblivion
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Obsessed
T. R. Ragan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

OBSESSED
James Patterson and James O. Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD
Allison Britz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Obsession
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Obsession in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Obsidian
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Obsidian Butterfly
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Obsidian (DreadfulWater, #5)
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Obsidian (Lux, #1)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Obsidio
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

O Caledonia
Elspeth Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

OCDaniel
Wesley King

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Ocean Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ocean Sea
Alastair McEwen, Alessandro Baricco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Odd Apocalypse
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Odder
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Odd Girl Out
Ann Bannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Odd Hours
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Odd One Out
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Odds Against
Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Oedipus
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 60

Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 401

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Of Blood and Bone (Chronicles of The One, #2)
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Of Cattle and Men
Ana Paula Maia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Of Empire (Penguin Great Ideas)
Francis Bacon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Of Fire and Stars (Of Fire and Stars, #1)
Audrey Coulthurst

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Off Season (Dead River, #1)
Jack Ketchum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Off the Deep End
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Off the Grid
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Off to Be the Wizard
Scott Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Of Love And Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1937

Of Nightingales That Weep
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
William Bradford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1651

Of Poseidon
Anna Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Of Sound Mind
Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Of the Abuse of Words
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Of the Conduct of the Understanding (Key Texts)
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Of Triton
Anna Banks

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Of War and Ruin (The Bound and the Broken, #3)
Ryan Cahill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Of Wolves and Men
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oh, Beautiful
John Paul Godges

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Ohio
Stephen Markley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Oh, William
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oil and Marble
Stephanie Storey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Oil on Water
Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

O is for Outlaw (Kinsey Millhone, #15)
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Olalla
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2023

Old Bones
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Old Filth
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Jonathan Raban

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Old Granny Fox
Thornton W. Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Old Mortality
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Old Ramon
Jack Schaefer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Old Rendering Plant
Wolfgang Hilbig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Old School
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Old Times On The Mississippi
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Old Yeller
Fred Gipson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Oleanna
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Olga Dies Dreaming
Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

Olive's Ocean
Kevin Henkes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Ollantay
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Olney Hymns
William Cowper

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Olympus, Texas
Stacey Swann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Omakase
Weike Wang

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Omar Rising
Aisha Saeed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Ombria in Shadow
Patricia A. McKillip

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Omens
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013