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Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Rex Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Ferdydurke

Witold Gombrowicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Fermat's Enigma

John Lynch, Simon Singh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Ferris Beach

Jill McCorkle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Ferryman

Claire Mcfall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Festive in Death

J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fever

Robin Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Feverborn

Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fever Crumb

Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin, Transl. Megan McDowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fever of the Bone (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #6)

Val McDermid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Feversong

Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918

Don Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Fiasco

Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

Fiddler on the Roof

Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Fiela's Child (Fiela se Kind)

Dalene Matthee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Field Guide to the North American Teenager

Ben Philippe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Field Notes on Love

Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Field Of Blood

Gerald Seymour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Field of Prey

John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fields of Fire: A Novel

James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Fiend

Peter Stenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fierce Attachments

Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

Susan Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You

Jen Hatmaker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Fierce Kingdom

Gin Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Fifteen

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1956

Fifteen Dogs

Andre Alexis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Fifth Chinese Daughter

Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Fifth Grave Past the Light

Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capital, #2)

Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Fifty Fifty

Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fifty Shades Darker

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fifty Shades Freed

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed)

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fifty Words for Rain

Asha Lemmie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win

Clara Zetkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

Fighting for Flight

J.B. Salsbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport

Edith Wharton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1915

Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Fight of the Century

Michael Chabon, ed., Ayelet Waldman, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Fight or Flight

Samantha Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman, John M. Gottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Fight with Me

Kristen Proby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fig Pudding

Ralph Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Figures in a Landscape

Barry England

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Figures of Enchantment

Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Figuring

Maria Popova

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Filth

Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Filthy Rich: The True Story Behind the Jeffrey Epstein Sex Scandal

James Patterson, John Connolly, Tim Malloy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Final Days

Susan Orpett Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Finale

Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Finale (Hush, Hush, #4)

Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Final Gifts

Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper, #1)

Linda Fairstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Finally

Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Final Solutions: A Stage Play

Mahesh Dattani

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Finders Keepers

Emily Rodda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Find Her (Detective D.D. Warren, #9)

Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Finding Audrey

Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Mitch Albom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Finding Cinderella

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S.)

Kenneth R. Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Finding Dorothy

Elizabeth Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Finding Emilie

Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Finding Fish

Antwone Quenton Fisher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Finding Forrester

James W. Ellison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Finding George Orwell in Burma

Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Finding Gobi: The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey

Dion Leonard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Finding Junie Kim

Ellen Oh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Finding Jupiter

Kelis Rowe

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2022

Finding Langston

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Finding Mañana

Mirta Ojito

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Burford, Michelle Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Finding Miracles

Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Finding Moon

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Finding Mr. Write

Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Finding My Way: A Memoir

Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Finding Nouf

Zoe Ferraris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Finding Perfect

Elly Swartz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Finding Sky

Joss Stirling

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Finding Winnie

Lindsay Mattick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Martha N. Beck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997