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Each Little Bird That Sings
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Each Tiny Spark
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Each Vagabond by Name
Margo Orlando Littell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Eagle Blue
Michael D'Orso

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Eagle Strike
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Early Autumn
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Early Thunder
Jean Fritz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Earth Abides
George R. Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Earth and Ashes
Atiq Rahimi

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

Earth and High Heaven (Cormorant Classic Reprint Series)
Gwethalyn Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Earth Girl (Earth Girl, #1)
Janet Edwards

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
N. Scott Momaday

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Earthlings
Sayaka Murata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Earthquake at Dawn
Kristiana Gregory

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Earthquake Terror
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Earth's End
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Josh Lieb, Steve Bodow, Jon Stewart, Rory Albanese, David Javerbaum

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

Earth Unaware
Aaron Johnston, Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

East
Edith Pattou

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Eastbound
Maylis de Kerangal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

East (East, #1)
Edith Pattou

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Easter 1916
Charles Townshend

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Easter 1916 and Other Poems
W.B. Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core! (The Guardians, #2)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Easter Bunny Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #19)
Leslie Meier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Easter Island
Jennifer Vanderbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

East Lynne
Henry Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

East of Eden
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

East of the Mountains
David Guterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

East, West
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

East Wind: West Wind
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Easy
Tammara Webber

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Easy Motion Tourist
Leye Adenle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Easy Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Eaters Of The Dead
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Lynne Truss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss

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

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Eat the Document
Dana Spiotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Eat to Live
Joel Fuhrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Ebony and Ivy
Craig Steven Wilder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bede, Ronald Latham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 731

Echo
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Echo Burning
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Echoes in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Echoes of Scotland Street
Samantha Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Echoes of You
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Echo Mountain
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Echo Park
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
Peter Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eclipse
Cate Tiernan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Alfred W. Crosby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Janisse Ray

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Mike Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
Timothy Morton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Econometrics
Fumio Hayashi

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1843

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
Ludwig von Mises

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1920

Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
Max Weber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1921

Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Ecstasy Unveiled
Larissa Ione

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Eden's Escape (Eden of the Lamp, #2)
M. Tara Crowl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Edgar Allan Poe
Harry Lee Poe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1799

Edgedancer
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2016

Edge of Collapse
Kyla Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Edge of Eternity
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Edgewater
Courtney Sheinmel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1879

Edith's Diary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Edith Wharton: A Biography
R.W.B. Lewis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1975

Ed King
David Guterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Jesse Norman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Edna in the Desert
Maddy Lederman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
Esmé Raji Codell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Educating Rita
Willy Russell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
David Wallace Adams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Louis L'Amour

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Edward II
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

Eeny Meeny
M.J. Arlidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Effortless
Greg McKeown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Greg McKeown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Efrén Divided
Ernesto Cisneros

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Efuru
Flora Nwapa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Eggs
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Eggshell Skull
Bri Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Egg & Spoon
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014