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Elliptical
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Ellis Island
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Elmer and the Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

Eloisa to Abelard
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1717

Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Brittney Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Emako Blue
Brenda Woods

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Eleanor Barraclough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Emergency
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1991

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Maree Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Emile: On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1763

Emily Of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1923

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Emma
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1815

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Empire Falls
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Empire of Storms
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S.C. Gwynne

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Emplumada
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
Margarita Engle

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Enchantra
Kaylie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Encounters With the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Endangered
Eliot Schrefer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Endgame
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
Omid Scobie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Endless Love
Scott Spencer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

End of April
Phillis Levin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

End of Story
A. J. Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

End of Watch
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1959

Endymion: A Poetic Romance
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Enemies from Within Speech
Joseph McCarthy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1950

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Enough
Cassidy Hutchinson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Entrance
Dana Gioia

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Entropy
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Epicac
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

Epilogue
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Equus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

Eragon
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Eraser Tattoo
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2018

Erasure
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1170

Erewhon
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Eros Turannos
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Escape From Freedom
Erich Fromm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Escaping Salem
Richard Godbeer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Escaping the Giant Wave
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Esio Trot
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Eternal
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ethan Brand
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1850

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1911

Ethics
Baruch Spinoza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1677

Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1832

Eumenides
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Euphoria
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eurydice
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Euthyphro
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Eva Luna
Transl. Margaret Sayers Peden, Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1847

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Eveline
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

Even As We Breathe
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Evening Hawk
Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

& even the black guy’s profile reads 'sorry, no black guys'
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Everlost
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Everybody
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Every Day
David Levithan

Fiction | Novel | YA

Every Day Is for the Thief
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Everyday Use
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
Susan Elizabeth McClelland, Sungju Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2016

Every Heart A Doorway
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2016

Every Last Secret
A. R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Everyman
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1485

Every Note Played
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018