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A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

A Young People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2007

The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Yankee Years
Joe Torre

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

The Year of Billy Miller
Kevin Henkes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
Cait Flanders

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Year of Miss Agnes
Kirkpatrick Hill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Year of the Dog
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Year Of The Hangman
Gary L. Blackwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Year of the Runaways
Sunjeev Sahota

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Year of the Witching
Alexis Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Years
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Year We Disappeared
Cylin Busby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Year We Fell Down
Sarina Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Year We Fell From Space
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Yield: A Novel
Tara June Winch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
Anton DiSclafani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Young Elites
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Younger Wife
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Young Landlords
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

The Young Lions
Irwin Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Young Man and the Sea
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Yanomamo: The Fierce People
Napoleon Chagnon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Yearbook
Seth Rogen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Year of Yes
Shonda Rhimes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Year One
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
Sierra Crane Murdoch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Yellow Brick War
Danielle Paige

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Yellow Crocus
Laila Ibrahim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Yellowface
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Yellow Wife
Sadeqa Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Yerba Buena
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Yes, Daddy
Jonathan Parks-Ramage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Yes No Maybe So
Aisha Saeed, Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Yes Please
Amy Poehler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Y is for Yesterday
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Yolk
Mary H. K. Choi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Yonnondio
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

York Mystery Plays
York Mystery Plays

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1
Kiyohiko Azuma, Amy Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

You
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You, Again
Kate Goldbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
Jen Sincero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

You Are Not Alone
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Are Not So Smart
David Mcraney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

You Belong To Me
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

You Can Heal Your Life
Louise Hay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

You Can't Stop Me
Max Allan Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

You Deserve Each Other
Sarah Hogle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

You Had Me At Hello
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

You Had Me at Hola
Alexis Daria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Have a Match
Emma Lord

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

You Know Me Al
Ring Lardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

You Know You Love Me

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

You'll Be the Death of Me
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

You Love Me
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

You Never Can Tell
Kathleen Eagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Youngblood
Matt Gallagher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1932

Young Jane Young
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

You Owe You: Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your Why
Eric Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Bebe Moore Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Your Dad Will Do
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Your Duck is My Duck
Deborah Eisenberg

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

You're Invited
Amanda Jayatissa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

You're Never Weird on the Internet
Felicia Day, Joss Whedon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Kate Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne Dyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Sunil Yapa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Your Money or Your Life
Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Yours Truly
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023