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The Family Game
Catherine Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Family Remains
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Family Under The Bridge
Natalie Savage Carlson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Famished Road
Ben Okri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Far and the Near
Thomas Wolfe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1935

The Farming Of Bones
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Fat Girl
Andre Dubus II

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

The Father
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

The Fault in Our Stars
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Feather Thief
Kirk Wallace Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Federalist Papers
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1787

The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

The Female Brain
Louann Brizendine

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Female Eunuch
Germaine Greer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

The Female Quixote
Charlotte Lennox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1752

The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

The Field Guide
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Senge

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

The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fighting Ground
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

The Final Four
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Final Gambit
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fine Print
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

The Fire This Time
Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Firm
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The First Ladies
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The First Rule of Punk
Celia C. Perez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The First Seven Years
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The First Stone
Don Aker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

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 World War
John Keegan

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

The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
Joe Siple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Flea
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

The Flick
Annie Baker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Flock
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

The Flowers
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The Fly
Karl Shapiro

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

The Fly
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

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 War
Joe Haldeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Fort
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

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 Foundling
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Fountains of Silence: A Novel
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Four Loves
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Fourteenth Goldfish
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Fourth Stall
Chris Rylander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Fourth State of Matter
Jo Ann Beard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1996

The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fox Wife
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Friend
Sigrid Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Friendship War
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Frogs
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fundamentals of Ethics
Russ Shafer Landau

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

The Fun They Had
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

The Furnished Room
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

The Fury
Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Future
Naomi Alderman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Future of Life
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001