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The Faith Club
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Joel F. Harrington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Faithful Spy (John Wells, #1)
Alex Berenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Fake Mate
Lana Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fakir
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
Robert Lindsey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Falconer
Dana Czapnik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Falconer (The Falconer, #1)
Elizabeth May

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
Joshua Hammer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Fall
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Fall (CHERUB, #7)
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Fallen
T. Jefferson Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fallen Angel
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Fallen Star
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Falling in Love Montage
Ciara Smyth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

The Fall of Berlin 1945
Antony Beevor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Fall of Five
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Fall of Gondolin
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Fall of Lucifer (Chronicles of Brothers, #1)
Wendy Alec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Fall of Reach
Eric Nylund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fall of the Governor: Part One
Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fallout (The Compound, #2)
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Fall Risk
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The False Princess
Eilis O'Neal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Familiars
Stacey Halls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Family
Mario Puzo, Carol Gino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Family Across the Street
Nicole Trope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Family Business
Carl Weber, Eric Pete

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Family Chao
Lan Samantha Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Family Corleone (The Godfather #5)
Edward Falco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Family Fang
Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Family from One End Street
Eve Garnett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1937

The Family Game
Catherine Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Family Next Door
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Family of Pascual Duarte
Camilo José Cela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Family Plot
Megan Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Family Remains
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Jeff Sharlet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
Lauren Markham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Faraway Inn
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Far Field
Madhuri Vijay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Farm
Joanne Ramos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Farming Of Bones
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Far Pavilions
M.M. Kaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Far Pavilions Vol. 1

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Far Right Today

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Far Side of the Dollar (Lew Archer, #12)
Ross Macdonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Fastest Boy in the World
Elizabeth Laird

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Fastest Way to Fall
Denise Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Amanda Little

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Fate of Ten
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Fate of the Earth
Jonathan Schell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

The Fate of the Tearling
Erika Johansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fates Divide
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Father
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

The Father of Stones
Lucius Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Father's Tale
Michael D. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Fault in Our Stars
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Favorite Daughter
Kaira Rouda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Favorite Sister
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fear Index
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Amy C. Edmondson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West
Todd H. Green

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Feast
Margaret Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Feast of All Saints
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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 Feeling of What Happens
António R. Damásio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Fell
Sarah Moss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
Unca Eliza Winkfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1767

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 Imagination
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Female Man
Joanna Russ

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Female of the Species

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Female Quixote
Charlotte Lennox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1752

The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present (Modern Library Chronicles)
Christine Stansell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Feral Detective
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Ferryman
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Ferryman and His Wife
Frode Grytten, Transl. Alison Mccullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025