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Vicious
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Viciously Yours
Jamie Applegate Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Vicious (Pretty Little Liars, #16)
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Vicious Prince
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Victoria
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico
Stuart B. Schwartz

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Victory
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Victory City
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Victory of Eagles
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2022

Vidas Secas
Graciliano Ramos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Video
Yvonne Spielmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Vietgone
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Max Hastings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
GB Tran

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Villages
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Villa Triste
Lucretia Grindle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Villette
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Vimy: The Battle and the Legend
Tim Cook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Vinegar Girl
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Vinegar Hill
A. Manette Ansay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Violence and the Sacred

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Violence Over the Land
Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Violeta
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning
Danette Haworth

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Violets Are Blue
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Virals (Virals, #1)
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Virgil
Steve Orlando

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Virgil Wander
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
Lyndall Gordon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

Virgin River (Virgin River, #1)
Robyn Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Virtual Light
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Visible Learning
John Hattie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn
John Hattie, Gregory Yates

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Visible Worlds
Marilyn Bowering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Vision in Silver
Anne Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Vision in White
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Visions in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Visions of Gerard
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Visions of Heat
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Visions of Sugar Plums
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Visions of the Daughters of Albion
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1793

Visitation
Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Visit to a Small Planet
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Visual Intelligence
Amy E. Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1294

Vittorio, The Vampire
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Vladimir
Julia May Jonas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Voices (Inspector Erlendur #5)
Arnaldur Indriðason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Voices in the City
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1)
Darcy Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Voices of Protest
Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Void Moon
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Volkswagen Blues
Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Volpone
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

Voss
Patrick White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Vox
Christina Dalcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Voyage In The Dark
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Voyage of the Damned
Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Voyager
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Bernard Bailyn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Voyeur
Daniel Judson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Vulcan's Hammer
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History
Maureen Orth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Vurt (Vurt, #1)
Jeff Noon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993