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The Revenge of Geography
Robert D. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Revenge of Seven
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Revisioners
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Revolt of the Angels
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Oscar Zeta Acosta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
Sonia Manzano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Rez Sisters
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5)
Charles Stross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Rhetoric of Fiction
Wayne C. Booth

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Rhythm of Memory
Alyson Richman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Rice Mother
Rani Manicka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Rich Boy
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Richest Man in Babylon
George Samuel Clason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

The Riddle
Alison Croggon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Riddle of Penncroft Farm
Dorothea Jensen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Ridge
Michael Koryta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Rift
Nina Allan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Right Move
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1791

The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Right Swipe
Alisha Rai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ring
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Ring of Solomon
Simon Jones, Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Ring of Thoth
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Ringworld Engineers
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Candace Fleming

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
Peter Parnell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Risen
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

The Rise of Endymion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Rise of Magicks
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Rise of Nine
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

The Rising
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Rising of the Moon
Flynn Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Risk
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
S.T. Abby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Risk Pool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Rithmatist
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Ritual
Adam L.G. Nevill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1)
Faye Kellerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Rivals
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The River
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The River and the Source
Margaret A. Ogola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The River Between
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The River Between Us
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The River King
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The River Niger
Joseph A. Walker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The River of No Return
Bee Ridgway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Rivers of Zadaa
D.J. MacHale

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The River Why
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Road
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

The Road Back
Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Road from Coorain
Jill Ker Conway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Road Home
Rose Tremain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Road to Avalon (Dark Ages of Britain, #1)
Joan Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Road to Character
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Road to Mecca
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Road to Memphis
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Road to Oz (Oz, #5)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1909

The Road to Paris
Nikki Grimes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Road To Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

The Road to the City
Natalia Ginzburg

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2021