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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

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

Eve in Hollywood
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Evelina
Fanny Burney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1778

Even As We Breathe
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector Rebus, #20)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Even If We Break
Marieke Nijkamp

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Evening Class
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Evenings and Weekends
Oisín McKenna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Evening Star
Catherine Coulter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Evening Stars (Blackberry Island, #3)
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Even Now
Karen Kingsbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Even Though I Knew the End
C.L. Polk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Eventide
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Eve of Man (Eve of Man, #1)
Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Eve out of Her Ruins
Ananda Devi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ever
Gail Carson Levine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Ever After
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Ever After Always
Chloe Liese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ever After (The Hollows, #11)
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Everblaze
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #3)
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Everflame (Everflame #1)
Dylan Lee Peters

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Evergreen
Belva Plain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2)
Naomi Hirahara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everland
Rebecca Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Everlasting
Alyson Noel

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Everless
Sara Holland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Everlost
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Evermore: The Immortals
Alyson Noel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Everneath
Brodi Ashton

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Evernight
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Evernight (Evernight, #1)
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Everybody
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Everybody: A Book About Freedom
Olivia Laing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
Lesley M.M. Blume

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
William McKeen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Everybody Knows
Jordan Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everybody Lies
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Everybody Sees the Ants
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Everybody Writes
Ann Handley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Every Bone Tells a Story
Jill Rubalcaba, Peter Robertshaw

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2004

Every Boy's Got One
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Every Breath
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Every Day
David Levithan

Fiction | Novel | YA

Everyday Ambassador
Kate Otto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Every Day Is for the Thief
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Every Dead Thing
John Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
Sungju Lee, Susan Elizabeth McClelland

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2016

Every Fifteen Minutes
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Every Heart A Doorway
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2016

Every Last Breath
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Every Last Fear
Alex Finlay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Every Last One
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Every Last Secret
A. R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Every Living Thing
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Everyman
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Every Man Dies Alone
Rudolph Ditzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Every Man In His Humour
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
Megan K. Stack

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Everyman: Morality Play
Anonymous - Everyman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 16

Every Man Out of His Humour
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Every Note Played
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead
Emily Austin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Everyone Is Watching
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Everyone Worth Knowing
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Every Other Weekend
Abigail Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Every Secret Thing
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Every Soul a Star
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Every Summer After
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Everything for a Dog
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Kate Bowler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything Here Is Beautiful
Mira T. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Everything in Its Path
Kai T. Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer
Duncan J. Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Everything Leads to You
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Everything My Mother Taught Me
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019