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A Jest of God
Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
Rochelle Sutin, Lawrence Sutin, Jack Sutin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Jack & Jill (Alex Cross, #3)
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Jack London: An American Life
Earle G. Labor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Jack Maggs
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1796

Jaguar (Jacob Lansa, #2)
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

Jake and Lily
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

James Joyce: A New Biography
Gordon Bowker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Jam on the Vine
Lashonda Katrice Barnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Jane Austen: A Life
Carol Shields

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Jane Steele
Lyndsay Faye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Janus: A Summing Up
Arthur Koestler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Anthony Swofford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Jennie Gerhardt
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Jennifer Government
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Jerusalem Delivered
Anthony Esolen, Torquato Tasso

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Jesus Land: A Memoir
Julia Scheeres

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

JFK: Reckless Youth
Nigel Hamilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Jim the Boy
Tony Earley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Joan of Arc: A History (Cut Edge)
Helen Castor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza, #2)
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

John Adams
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2001

John Bull's Other Island
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

John Cardinal O'Connor
Nat Hentoff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

John Donne: The Reformed Soul
John Stubbs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

John Keats: The Making of a Poet
Aileen Ward

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought
Thomas N. Corns, Gordon Campbell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Richard Reeves, Richard V. Reeves

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father
Francis J. Bremer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Jonah's Gourd Vine
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography
Jocelyn Baines

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Joss Whedon: The Biography
Nathan Fillion, Amy Pascale

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Journey into the Whirlwind
Eugenia Ginzburg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Journey of the Sparrows
Daisy Cubias, Fran Leeper Buss

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Journey's End
R.C. Sherriff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, #12)
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Juliet
Anne Fortier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Jumping the Nail
Eve Bunting

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1993

Junky
Allen Ginsberg, Oliver Harris, William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Just After Sunset
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Just a Kiss (Summer Harbor, #3)
Denise Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Just Another Hero (Jericho, #3)
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)
Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
Jason Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Jesus I Never Knew
Philip Yancey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
Paul Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
John Carlos, Dave Zirin, Cornel West

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm, Ian Jack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Journal of John Woolman
John Woolman, Janet Whitney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1774

The Journey Home
Isabelle Holland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
Jo Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015