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Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
Rebecca Ross, Rebecca Ross
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
James Oakes
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore, Kate Moore
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R. K. Narayan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Holly Jackson
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
K.A. Yoshida, David Mitchell, Naoki Higashida
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013
The Recognition of Śakuntalā
Kālidāsa, Kalidasa, W.J. Johnson
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.
Tom Rinaldi
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
Louise Erdrich
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Ida B. Wells
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
Dan Gemeinhart
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
Fiction | Novel | Published in 1999
The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)
J.R.R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022
The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Wilkins Freeman
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998
The Richest Man in Babylon
George Samuel Clason, George S. Clason
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Elizabeth Letts
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
The Rig Veda
Transl. Wendy Doniger, Wendy Doniger, Anonymous
Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and the Conversation Poems
Samuel Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells, Kermit Vanderbilt
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985
The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1)
Shantel Tessier, Shantel Tessier
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
The Road to Serfdom
Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Friedrich A. Hayek
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Rocking-Horse Winner
D. H. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998
The Romance of the Rose
Jean de Meun, Frances Horgan, Guillaume De Lorris
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999