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The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown

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

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica, Transl. Sarah Moses

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
Bill Willingham, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Yuko Shimizu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Upanishads
Anonymous, Transl. Juan Mascaró

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

The Uplift War
David Brin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
Oscar Handlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Upside of Falling
Alex Light

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Dan Ariely

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Upside of Unrequited
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Use of Force
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

The Uses and Abuses of History

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Bruno Bettelheim

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Usual Rules
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Ubu and the Truth Commission
Jane Taylor

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Ubu Roi
Alfred Jarry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1896

Uglies
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

U is for Undertow
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Ulalume
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1847

Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Scott Turow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Scott H. Young

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Dean Karnazes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
Chris van Tulleken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Ulverton
Adam Thorpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Ulysses
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Umbertina
Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation
William C. Placher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Unattainable
Madeline Sheehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Portia de Rossi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Unbelievable
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Unbought and Unbossed
Shirley Chisholm

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1970

Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power
Tarana Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

UnBound (Unwind, #4.5)
Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Michelle Knowlden, Terry Black

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | YA | Published in 2015

Unbowed
Wangari Maathai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Unbreak My Heart
Toni Braxton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Unbroken Bonds of Battle: A Modern Warriors Book of Heroism, Patriotism, and Friendship
Johnny Joey Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Anna Wiener

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Uncertain Soldier
Karen Bass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Lilliana Mason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Uncle Fred in the Springtime
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh: In 2 Vols, Volume 2

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1938

Uncle Tungsten
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Uncommon Carriers
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Uncommon Criminals
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Uncommon Type
Tom Hanks

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Uncrowned
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Undaunted Courage
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Undead and Unappreciated
MaryJanice Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Undead and Unwed (Undead, #1)
MaryJanice Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Undeniable
Madeline Sheehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Under a Cruel Star: A Life In Prague, 1941-1968
Heda Margolius Kovály

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Under a Painted Sky
Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Under a Shooting Star
Maxine Trottier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Under a War-Torn Sky
L.M. Elliott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
Peter Maas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Undercover
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Undercover Bromance
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Under Currents
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Under Fire
Henri Barbusse, Fitzwater Wray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Philip Gabriel, Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Underground To Canada
Barbara Smucker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)
Guy Gavriel Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Under Her Care
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Underland
Robert Macfarlane

Fiction | Novel

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Under Locke
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Underlord
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Doris Lessing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Under One Roof: Lessons I Learned from a Tough Old Woman in a Little Old House
Ali Hazelwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
Lisa Damour

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Understanding Human Nature
Alfred Adler, W. Beran Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today's Competing Worldviews
David A. Noebel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Understood Betsy
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1916

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Under the Banyan Tree
R.K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

Under the Black Ensign
L. Ron Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Under the Blood Red Sun
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Under the Bridge
Michael Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Under the Dome
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Under the Egg
Laura Marx Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014