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The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Lew Archer, #10)
Ross Macdonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Zenith
Dương Thu Hương

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Zen of Listening: Mindful Communication in the Age of Distraction
Rebecca Z Shafir MA CCC

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
Huang Po

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 857

The Zero
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Zigzag Way
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Zimmermann Telegram
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1958

The Zodiac Legacy Convergence
Stan Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Zombie Chasers (The Zombie Chasers #1)
John Kloepfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Zombie Room
R.D. Ronald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story
Sergei Dovlatov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Zone of Interest
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

The Zoo Story
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Zac and Mia
A.J. Betts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Zach's Lie
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Zack Files
Dan Greenburg

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Zadig
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1747

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Zane and the Hurricane
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Zastrozzi
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1810

Zazie in the Metro
Raymond Queneau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Zealot
Reza Aslan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Zebra and Other Stories
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1998

Zeitoun
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Zen and the Art of Faking It
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M Pirsig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Zen in the Art of Archery
Eugen Herrigel, R.F.C. Hull

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Ray Bradbury

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Shunryu Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker, Huston Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Zeno's Conscience
Michael Hoffman, Beryl de Zoete, William Weaver, Claudio Carini, Italo Svevo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Zero at the Bone (Zero at the Bone #1)
Jane Seville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Zeroboxer
Fonda Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Zero Day
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Zero Days
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
Carol Leonnig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Zero K
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom (Heroes in Training, #1)
Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Z For Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Zia
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Zita the Spacegirl (Zita the Spacegirl, #1)
Ben Hatke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1993

Zodiac
Robert Graysmith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Zoe's Tale
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Zoey Ashe, #2)
David Wong, Jason Pargin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah
Gershom Scholem, Moses de León

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1300

Zoli
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Zom-B
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Zombie
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Zone One
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Zong!
Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Setaey Adamu Boateng

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Zoo
Michael Ledwidge, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Zoobreak
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Zoo City
Lauren Beukes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Zoo Station (John Russell, #1)
David Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Zoo: The Graphic Novel
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Zoot Suit
Luis Valdez

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Zora and Me
T.R. Simon, Victoria Bond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Robert E. Hemenway

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1977

Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Zorrie
Laird Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Zorro
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Zuckerman Unbound
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879
Saul David

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004