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A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Remarkable Woman
Anne Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A Replacement Life
Boris Fishman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor's Story
David Shurter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin, Hélène Iswolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Race in America
Matthew Desmond, Mustafa Emirbayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Radiance of Tomorrow
Ishmael Beah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Raiders Night
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Raining Sardines
Enrique Flores-Galbis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Rain Village
Carolyn Turgeon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ramayana
Daljit Nagra

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1982

Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Rape Fantasies
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era
Sterling North

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1963

Rat Life
Tedd Arnold

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Rattlebone
Maxine Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Raven's Gate (Power of Five, #1)
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Raw (RAW Family, #1)
Belle Aurora

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Reached (Matched, #3)
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Real American: A Memoir
Julie Lythcott-Haims

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Reaping the Whirlwind: A Trent Tyson Historical Mystery
Rosey Dow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Phillip Berman, Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
Sandra Dallas

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Red Cap
G. Clifton Wisler

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1994

Redchapel
Mike Resnick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Red Doc>
Anne Carson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Redemption
Julie Chibbaro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Rosemary Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Red Sky at Morning
Richard Bradford, Richard Bradford

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Red Sorghum
Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1)
Jason Matthews, Jason Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Refuge
Dot Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Refund
Karen E. Bender

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Religio Medici
Sir Thomas Browne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1642

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Remember Me Like This
Bret Anthony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia Spiegel, Elizabeth Bellak

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Reputations
Anne McLean, Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Rescuing Jeffrey
Richard Galli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
Mihir S. Sharma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
C. J. Sansom, C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy, #2)
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Rewind
William Sleator

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Reynard the Fox
Robert van Genechten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Rice without Rain
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1987

Richard Rive
Shaun Viljoen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Rich Lizard: And Other Poems
Deborah Chandra, Leslie Bowman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Rikers High
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Ripper
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Rite of Passage
Alexei Panshin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

River Boy
Tim Bowler

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

River of Earth
James Still

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
William D. Layman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Ben Hamper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Robert Frost
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
Stephen Thomas Knight

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