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Reflected in You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Reflections in a Golden Eye
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Paul Rabinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Reflections on the Psalms
C.S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Reform or Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Refuge
Dot Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Terry Tempest Williams

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Refugee
Britannica Kids

Nonfiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Refund
Karen E. Bender

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Regency Buck (Alastair-Audley, #3)
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Regeneration
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Regretting You
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Reign of a King
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Reilly's Luck
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Reinventing Government
Ted Gaebler, David Osborne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Rejection Proof
Jia Jiang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Relato de un náufrago
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Release
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Release Me
J. Kenner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Relentless
Tim S. Grover, Shari Lesser Wenk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Relic
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Religio Medici
Thomas Browne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Reliquary
Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Lucy Knisley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Remarkables
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Remembering the Bones
Frances Itani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Remember Me
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Remember Me?
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Remember Me Like This
Bret Anthony Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Remember the Alamo
Amelia E. Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Remember When
J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Remember When (Foster Saga, #1)
Judith McNaught

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Remembrance
Jude Deveraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Remy
Katy Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
Adam Kinzinger, Michael D'Antonio

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Renegades
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Renia's Diary
Renia Spiegel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1944

Rent
Jonathan Larson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Replay
Ken Grimwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Reprieve
James Han Mattson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reputations
Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Requiem
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Requiem for a Dream: A Novel
Hubert Selby Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Rescue
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Rescue on the Oregon Trail (Ranger in Time, #1)
Kate Messner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Rescuing Jeffrey
Richard Galli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Reservation Road (Vintage Contemporaries)
John Burnham Schwartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Resilience
Amy Eleanor Heart, ed., Larissa Glasser, ed., Sugi Pyrrophyta, ed.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Resistance
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Resolution and Independence
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
Nancy Duarte

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Restart
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Tricia Hersey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Restless
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Restless Stars
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Restoration
Rose Tremain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Restore Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Retribution
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

Return to Paradise
Simone Elkeles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Return to Sender
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Return to Valetto
Dominic Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Reunion
Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Reunion in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Revealed
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Revelation
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Revelations
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008