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England, England
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

England in 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

England, their England
A.G. Macdonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Engleby
Sebastian Faulks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

English Creek (Montana Trilogy)
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

English Passengers
Matthew Kneale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Enigma Otiliei
George Călinescu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Enigma Variations
André Aciman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Enna Burning
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Enough
Cassidy Hutchinson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free
Oprah Winfrey, Ania M. Jastreboff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Enshittification
Cory Doctorow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Ensnared
A.G. Howard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)
Ngaio Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Joe Orton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

Enter Three Witches
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Entice
Carrie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
Dave Ramsey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Entry Island
Peter May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Entwined
Heather Dixon Wallwork

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Entwined with You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Envy
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Eon
Greg Bear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Eona: The Last Dragoneye
Alison Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Epic Fail
Claire LaZebnik

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Epic (Him, #2.5)
Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Epic of Gilgamesh : The Babylonian Epic and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
Andrew George

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Epilogue
C.J. Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Vincent Carretta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Equus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

Eragon
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Erak's Ransom
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Erasure
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1170

Erewhon
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Eric
Terry Pratchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Eros the Bittersweet
Anne Carson

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Erotism: Death and Sensuality
Georges Bataille

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Escape
Carolyn Jessop

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Escape Clause
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Escaped Alone
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Escape From Freedom
Erich Fromm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
Andrea Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Escape from Syria
Samya Kullab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Escape Room (Underlined Paperbacks)
Maren Stoffels

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Escape to freedom: The story of young Frederick Douglass : a play for young people
Ossie Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Escaping Destiny
Amelia Hutchins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Escaping from Houdini
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Escaping Peril
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Escaping Salem
Richard Godbeer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Escaping the Giant Wave
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Esio Trot
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Essay on the Freedom of the Will
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1839

Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
Yoshida Kenkō, 吉田兼好

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1332

Essays in Persuasion
John Maynard Keynes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Esther Waters
George Augustus Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

Etched in Bone
Anne Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Etched In Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Regina Calcaterra

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Eternal
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Eternal Kiss of Darkness
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Eternal Life
Dara Horn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1911

Ethics
Baruch Spinoza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1677

Ethics for the New Millennium
Dalai Lama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Ethnic Groups in Conflict
Donald Horowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction
Timothy Rice

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Etiquette & Espionage
Gail Carriger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Emma Hooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Eucalyptus
Murray Bail

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Eudora Welty
Suzanne Marrs

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

Eugene Onegin
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1823

Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
G.K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Eugenie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1833

Eumenides
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein, Αισχύλος

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 459

Euphoria
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eureka Street
Robert McLiam Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Europe: A History
Norman Davies

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Europe and the People Without History
Eric R. Wolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Euthyphro
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 400

Eva Luna
Isabel Allende, Transl. Margaret Sayers Peden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Evam Indrajit
Badal Sircar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Evangeline: The Wish Keeper's Helper
Maggie Alderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Eve
Anna Carey

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023