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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

You Deserve Each Other
Sarah Hogle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Sherman Alexie

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

You Don't Know Me
David Klass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

You Don't Want To Know
Lisa Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

You Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

You Had Me At Hello
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

You Had Me at Hola
Alexis Daria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Have a Match
Emma Lord

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

You Know Me Al
Ring Lardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

You Know You Love Me

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

You'll Be the Death of Me
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

You Love Me (You, #3)
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

You Never Can Tell
Kathleen Eagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Alexis Coe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Youngblood
Matt Gallagher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1932

Young Jane Young
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Young Scrooge: A Very Scary Christmas Story
R.L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Young Skins
Colin Barrett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

You Owe You: Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your Why
Eric Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Bebe Moore Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
Gary Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Your Brother's Blood: The Walkin' Book 1
David Towsey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Your Dad Will Do
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Your Duck is My Duck
Deborah Eisenberg

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

You're Invited
Amanda Jayatissa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You're Never Weird on the Internet
Felicia Day, Joss Whedon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Kate Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
Kalynn Bayron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne Dyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Your God Is Too Small
J.B. Phillips

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Sunil Yapa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Your Lie in April: A Six-Person Etude
Naoshi Arakawa, Yui Tokiumi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Your Money or Your Life
Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Your Story, My Story
Connie Palmen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Yours Truly
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Say It First
Katie Cotugno

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

You Should Have Known
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You Shouldn't Have Come Here
Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye
Patricia Hermes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

You Slay Me
Katie MacAlister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

You Suck
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Alexandra Kleeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

You've Been Warned
James Patterson, Howard Roughan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

You've Reached Sam
Dustin Thao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

You Were Made For Me
Jenna Guillaume

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

You Were Mine
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You Were Wrong
Matthew Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

You Will Know Me
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

You, with a View
Jessica Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ysabel
Guy Gavriel Kay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores
Brian K. Vaughan, Claudia Fliege

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
Brian K. Vaughan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
José Marzán Jr., Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls
José Marzán Jr., Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons
José Marzán Jr., Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland
Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
G. Neri

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Yvain, or the Knight With the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1176