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Fordlandia
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Forest Dark
Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Forget Me
K.A. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Forgive Me
Amanda Eyre Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Forgotten Fire
Adam Bagdasarian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

For Love of Country
Howard Schultz, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

For the Clan
Archer Kay Leah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Nathan Englander

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

For the Sake of Elena
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

For the Time Being
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

For Today I Am a Boy
Kim Fu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Fortune Smiles
Adam Johnson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Forty Autumns
Nina Willner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Forty Words For Sorrow
Giles Blunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Founding Faith
Steven Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Four Blind Mice
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Four Miles to Pinecone
Jon Hassler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Fourth of July Creek
Smith Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Foxfire
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Frankenstein's Cat
Emily Anthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Freaky Green Eyes
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman
Arna Bontemps

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1961

Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Freedom Riders
Ann Bausum

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Freedom Summer
Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Walkers
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Frog Music
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

From a Buick 8
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

From a Distance
Tamera Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

From Here to Eternity
James Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

From Russia, With Love
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

From Sleep Unbound
Andree Chedid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Funny Girl
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Furious Love
Sam Kashner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Gallows Hill
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Game
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Garbage Land
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Garden of Beasts
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Gathering the Bones
Ramsey Campbell, ed., Jack Dann, ed., Dennis Etchison, ed.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Genesis
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Gentlemen and Players
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

George Washington, Spymaster
Thomas B. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Get in Trouble
Kelly Link

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghetto Klown
John Leguizamo

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghosts of War
Ryan Smithson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2009

Ghost Wars
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

Gilded Age
Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1957

Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1951

Girl at War
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Girl Waits with Gun
Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Give Me Liberty
Frank Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015