Titles of which the first words starts with A, but A alone is off limits. A Purple Place for Dying would be against the rule, that is. Oh, and you have to like the book.

Absalom, Absalom Faulkner
All the King's Men Warren
After Theory Eagleton
Alone With America Richard Howard
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley

Aspects of the novel by E.M. Forster (so much for Mr Eagleton!)
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
Astérix le Gaulois by Goscinny and Uderzo
Art and illusion by Ernst Gombrich
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

...this is too easy; all you have to do is list your catalogue in alphabetical order of title, which in my case brings up about 120 books starting with "A", most of which I don't actively dislike. I think we need another constraint. What about requiring that the title also contains alliteration on "A"?

Adam, one afternoon by Italo Calvino
Author, author by David Lodge
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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I agree, way too easy. I have pages and pages of books starting with "A".

Hmm, can I do one word (not counting "A" and "The")?

Abbeys, by M.R. James
The Abyss, by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Adventuress, by Audrey Niffenegger
Animalia, by Graeme Base
Antipodes, by Maria-Antonia Oliver

Let me try alliterating:

The Advocate Adviser, by Pat Califia
Afternoon in the Attic, by John Kobler
Alligators All Around, by Maurice Sendak
Alphabets Animés, by Hugues Demeude
Angels in America. by Tony Kushner

How about A. . . a?

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Animalia by Graeme Base
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

Edited to add that since I stole lilithcat's answer of Animalia, I'll add Audubon's Birds of America by John James Audubon(unfortunately, not the real thing--only the Baby Elephant Folio)

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Hmm . . .

Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi
Alexandria, by E.M. Forster
The Annotated Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Arts & Crafts Design in America, by James C. Massey
Athenaion politeia, by Livio Catullo Stecchini

Always Coming Home by UKL
And It Was Good by L'Engle
Amazing Grace by Kozol
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Alvin Journeyman by Card (had to hold my nose a bit while including that one)

A bunch of mini-games!

I can't seem to come up with 5 in any of the mini-games, but maybe between them...

Aliteration:
Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings

One Word:
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill

A...a:
Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick

OK, I sorta cheated... but I got 5!

I have a lot more than just 5 that start with the letter A not counting those that start with 'a'.

After Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I like the variations & mini-games within the "A" game. Well done.

Anastasia: the Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth
The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass: as practiced in the 17th and 18th centuries

Alternities
Amaryllis
Arachne

Agent of Vega
Anna Banana

Anna Banana suggests a new variant - titles with no vowels other than "A". It might be quite tricky...

Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Abandoned by Jules Verne
After Babel by George Steiner
Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams

I could only do "no vowels except A" by scouring my library:

Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
Cassandra by Christa Wolf
Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing
Sadhana by Anthony de Mello

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Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin
Backtrack, by Joseph Hansen
Balthazar, by Lawrence Durrell
Bath, by Judith Newman
Black Cap, by Cynthia Asquith

Anna the Adventuress
And Then There Were None
All Around the Town
And Both Were Young
Alice in Wonderland

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie
All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
Alone by Lisa Gardner

Sorry, I didn't do the all A varient.

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Abarat by Clive Barker
Abba Abba by Anthony Burgess
Abracadabra by Kimberly Lyons
Agatha by Kathleen Tynan
Atalanta by Fred Johnston

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Agatha Christie An Autobiography
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All The Trouble in the World by P.J. O'Rourke
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris

Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
The Algebraist by Iain Banks

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Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Action Hero's Handbook by David Borgenicht
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis
And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi

I soo want to read Kavalier and Clay right now. Been a while since Final Solution.

An Artist of the Floating World - Ishiguro
Atlas Shrugged - Rand
As the Crow Flies - Archer
Avenger - Forsyth
Anthony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare

The Angel's Crime by Preston Pairo
Abide With Me by E.Lynn Harris
Angel Fire East by Terry Brooks
Hotel Alleluia by Lucinda Roy
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
After All These Years by Susan Isaacs
Alaska by James Michener
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Along Came a Spider by JAmes Patterson
Ana Historic by Daphne Marlatt
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Adam Bede by George Elliot
Away by Jane Urquhart
Are you there God It's Me Margaret by Judy Bloom
Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes

Asperger's From the Inside Out, by Michael John Carley
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte
The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque

An accident of love Mary Ellen Barrett
About my Sisters Debra Ginsberg
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara
Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver
Angel of Light Joyce Carol Oates