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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Gabriel García Márquez
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968
A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab (a philosophical poem)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Miriam Brody, Bebi Fernández, Mary Wollstonecraft
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
A Vision (A Reissue with the Author's Final Revisions)
William Butler Yeats, W.B. Yeats
Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966
A Voice from the South
Mary Helen Washington, Anna Julia Cooper
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)
Francine Rivers, Richard Ferrone
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998
The Vagina Monologues
Gloria Steinem, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Eve Ensler
Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)
Karina Yan Glaser
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James, William James
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Pauline Baynes, C.S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006
The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
Virginia Woolf
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000
Venus and Adonis
Christa Jansohn, Ferdinand Freiligrath, William Shakespeare
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003
Venus in Furs
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Larry Wolff, Joachim Neugroschel
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Timothy Brook
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Keith Gessen, Svetlana Alexievich, Alma Lapinskienė
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006