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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Arthur Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Freedom Summer
Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Walkers
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Free Fall
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Free Fire
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Freeks
Amanda Hocking

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Free Lunch
Rex Ogle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Stephen Nachmanovitch

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Free Ride
Noraly Schoenmaker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Free the Darkness (King's Dark Tidings, #1)
Kel Kade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Free To Choose
Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Freewater
Amina Luqman-Dawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill Browder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

French Braid
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

French Exit
Patrick Dewitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
Jessica Hernandez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth M. Holmes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Fresh Off the Boat
Eddie Huang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fresh Water for Flowers
Valérie Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Friction
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Friday
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Friday Night Bites
Chloe Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Buzz Bissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Friday, or, The Other Island
Michel Tournier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Friday's Child
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries, #1)
Harry Kemelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Friedrich
Hans Peter Richter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Friend Request
Laura Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Friends and Strangers
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Friends Forever (Real Friends, 3)
Shannon Hale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Friends Without Benefits
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Friend-Zoned
Belle Aurora

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Frightful's Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Frigid
Jennifer L. Armentrout, J. Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Frindle
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Frizzy
Claribel A. Ortega

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Frog Music
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

From a Buick 8
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

From a Distance
Tamera Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

From a Low and Quiet Sea
Donal Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

From Ashes
Molly McAdams

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
George C. Herring

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8)
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

From Doon With Death (Inspector Wexford, #1)
Ruth Rendell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

From Hell
Alan Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

From Here to Eternity
James Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

From Potter's Field
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

From Ritual to Romance
Jessie Laidlay Weston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1920

From Russia, With Love
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

From Sand and Ash
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

From Scratch
Susie Castellano

Nonfiction | Published in 2020

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

From Sleep Unbound
Andree Chedid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Arthur C. Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Jesse Thistle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

From the Corner of His Eye
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Janae Marks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

From the Embers
Aly Martinez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Pankaj Mishra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

From Time to Time (Time, #2)
Jack Finney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

From Twinkle, with Love
Sandhya Menon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Front Desk
Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Frontera
Lewis Shiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America
Edwin Tunis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Frost
C.N. Crawford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Richelle Mead, Nicola Twilley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2)
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Frostbitten
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Frostblood
Elly Blake

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Frost Burned
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Froth
Armando Palacio Valdés

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Frozen Charlotte (Frozen Charlotte, #1)
Alex Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Frozen Fire
Tim Bowler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Frozen Stiff
Sherry Shahan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Frozen Tides
Michelle Rowen, Morgan Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018