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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Andrea di Robilant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Very Long Engagement
Sébastien Japrisot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Very Merry Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #5)
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Very Punchable Face
Colin Jost

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Very Scandalous Holiday
Nancy Fraser, et al.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

A Village Singer
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1893

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1792

A Vintage Affair
Isabel Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka
William Butler Yeats

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

A Visit to London for Thomas the Tank Engine (Thomas & Friends Picture Books)
Various

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1742

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
Anna Julia Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

A Voice in the Wind
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Void
Georges Perec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Vow So Bold and Deadly
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

A Voyage to Arcturus
David Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Vacationers
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Vagabond
Colette Gauthier-Villars

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Vagrants
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Valentine Baby Mystery (Cam Jansen Mysteries, #25)
David A. Adler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Valkyries
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Valley of Horses
Sandra Burr, Jean M. Auel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Valley Of Horses
Jean M. Auel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Valley Of Unrest
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and the Struggle
L. J. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Vampire Prince
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

The Vampire's Assistant
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

The Vampire Tapestry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Van Alen Legacy
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Yan Glaser

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Van Gogh Cafe
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2006

The Van Gogh Deception
Deron R. Hicks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Vanished Man
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
Jan Harold Brunvand

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Vanishing Season
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2)
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
William James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902

The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Nick Burd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Vegetarian
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Veins of the Ocean
Patricia Engel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1922

The Velvet Hours
Alyson Richman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
Alan Downs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Vendor of Sweets
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Venetian Betrayal
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Venetian Years
Giacomo Casanova

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Venice Sketchbook
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Verge: A Play In Three Acts
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

The Verifiers (Claudia Lin, #1)
Jane Pek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Versions of Us
Laura Barnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Very, Very Far North
Dan Bar-el

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box, #1)
Mark Gatiss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Vet's Daughter
Barbara Comyns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Vibrant Years
Sonali Dev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1766

The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)
M.C. Beaton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Vicomte de Bragelonne
David Coward, Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Judith Flanders

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Victory at Sea
William Sowden Sims

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Victory Garden
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Vietnam War
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The View from Castle Rock
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

The View from Mount Joy
Lorna Landvik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The View From Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Villa
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Village
Nikita Lalwani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

The Village by the Sea
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
Susan Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Village of Stepanchikovo
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Villain
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Vincent Boys
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Vincent Brothers
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Vine Witch (The Vine Witch, #1)
Luanne G. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Vintner's Luck (Vintner's Luck, #1)
Elizabeth Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Violent Bear It Away
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Violent Land
Jorge Amado, Samuel Putnam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Violets of March
Sarah Jio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Sam Kean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Viper's Nest
Peter Lerangis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Virgin Blue
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Virgin Cure
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Virginian
Owen Wister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902