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Executive
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Exiting Nirvana
Clara Claiborne Park

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Exit, Pursued by a Bear
E. K. Johnston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Expecting Adam
Martha Beck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Experience
Martin Amis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Exposure
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Tom Bissell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Extraordinary Means
Robyn Schneider

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Eye of a Hurricane
Ruthann Robson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Eye of Conscience
Milton Meltzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Eye of the Storm: Eilida's Tragedy
Elle Klass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Eyes of a Blue Dog
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

Eyes Of The Emperor
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Faithful Place
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Mark Salter, John McCain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Fallout
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Family Life
Akhil Sharma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Family Tree
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Famous All Over Town
Danny Santiago

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Famous Last Words
Katie Alender

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Far and Away
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Farewell, My Queen
Chantal Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Far Far Away
Tom McNeal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1949

Far to Go
Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Fat Kid Rules The World
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Fear Street
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Feast Your Eyes
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentent Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Feel Free
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Felix Longoria's Wake
Patrick J. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Ferryman
Claire Mcfall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Fever
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

Fields of Fire: A Novel
James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Fifty Shades Freed
E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Fight of the Century
Michael Chabon, ed., Ayelet Waldman, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Figures of Enchantment
Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Final Days
Susan Orpett Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Final Gifts
Patricia Kelley, Maggie Callanan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Finders Keepers
Emily Rodda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Finding Audrey
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Finding Emilie
Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Finding Moon
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Finding Nouf
Zoe Ferraris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Finding Winnie
Lindsay Mattick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Finding Zoe
Brandi Rarus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Fire and Fury
Michael Wolff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fire and Ice
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Fire at Sea
Thomas Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Fire on the Mountain
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Fire Season
Philip Connors

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

First Farmers
Peter Bellwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

First in Their Hearts
Thomas James Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

First Kill
Michael Kronenwetter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fish
L. S. Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Five Flavors of Dumb
Antony John

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Five Seasons
A.B. Yehoshua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Five Women Who Loved Love
Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Fixing Patriarchy
Donald E. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Flags of Our Fathers
Ron Powers, James Bradley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Flawed Dogs
Berkeley Breathed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Fledgling: Jason Steed
Mark A. Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Flesh and Bone
Cydney Chadwick

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Fly Away Peter
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Fly Girls
Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Flying Carpets
Hedy Habra

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Following Fake Man
Barbara Ware Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Fontamara
Ignazio Silone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Fool for Love
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Fools and Other Stories
Njabulo S. Ndebele

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Footfalls
Wilbur Daniel Steele

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

For a Lost Soldier
Rudi van Dantzig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Forced Founders
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999