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The First Part Last
Angela Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The First Phone Call from Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The First Rule of Punk
Celia C. Perez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The First Stone
Mark Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The First Summit
Theodore A. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The First to Die at the End
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The First Treatise of Government
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1689

The First Wives Club
Olivia Goldsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The First World War
John Keegan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
Avner Offer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Fisherman
John Langan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fish That Ate The Whale
Rich Cohen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Joanne Rocklin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate
Gary Chapman

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Five Love Languages of Children
Gary Chapman, D. Ross Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Five-Star Weekend
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fix
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fixer
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Fixer Upper
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Flame Bearer
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Flick
Annie Baker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Flight Portfolio
Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Floating Opera
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Flood
Michael McDowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Fly
Elise Gravel

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

The Fog
James Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Fold
Peter Clines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Food Explorer
Daniel Stone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Force
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Foreign Student
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Forever of Ella and Micha
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Forever Song
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Forever War
Joe Haldeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Forgotten
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
Gregory A. Freeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Forgotten Hours
Katrin Schumann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Forgotten Man
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Fort
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Noam Wasserman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Foundling
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fountains of Silence: A Novel
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Janet Mills

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Four Loves
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Four-Part Key
Scott Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fourteenth Goldfish
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better
Gretchen Rubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fourth Bear
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Fourth Friend
Joy Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fourth Hand
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Fourth Monkey
J.D. Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fourth Protocol
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fourth Stall
Chris Rylander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
William Strauss, Neil Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fox
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Foxglove King
Hannah F. Whitten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Foxhole Court
Nora Sakavic

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Fragile Threads of Power
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fraud
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Mark Sanborn, John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Freedom Summer Murders
Don Mitchell

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Erin Gruwell and Freedom Writers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Free World
David Bezmozgis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Friend
Teresa Driscoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Friendship War
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Friend Zone
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Frog Princess
E.D. Baker

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

The Frogs
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Steve Argyle, Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Full Cupboard of Life
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Fundamentals of Ethics
Russ Shafer Landau

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Funhouse
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994