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Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead
Emily Austin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Everyone Is Watching
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Every Soul a Star
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Every Summer After
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Kate Bowler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything Here Is Beautiful
Mira T. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Everything is Figureoutable
Marie Forleo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Everything on a Waffle
Polly Horvath

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Everything's an Argument
Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965

Everything We Never Said
Sloan Harlow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Evil Eye: A Novel
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Evvie Drake Starts Over
Linda Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Exchanging Hats
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Executive Order 9066
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

Exhalation
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Exile
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Exile and Pride
Eli Clare

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Exiles
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Exit West
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Exodus
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World
Paul Collier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know
Emily Oster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Experience and Education
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Expiration Dates
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Extra Credit
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Fable
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Fablehaven
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Derrick A. Bell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Daniel K. Richter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Facing It
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Factfulness
Ola Rosling, Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Mark Hoppus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1953

Fair and Tender Ladies
Lee Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Fairest
Gail Carson Levine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Fair Weather
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Fairy Tale
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

"Faith" is a fine invention
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Fake ID
Lamar Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Fallen
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Falling: A Novel
T. J. Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Falling Leaves
Adeline Yen Mah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Falling Man
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Falling Over Sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Falling Short
Ernesto Cisneros

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Fall Of Giants
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Fall on your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fallout
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

False Witness
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fame Is a Fickle Food (1702)
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Familiaris
David Wroblewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Family Family
Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Family Lore
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Family of Liars
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1972

Famous
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Famous Last Words
Katie Alender

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Fangirl Down
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Fanny Hill
John Cleland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

FantasticLand
Mike Bockoven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fantastic Mr Fox
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Fantomina
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1725

Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Far From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1874

Far From the Tree
Robin Benway

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1933

Far North
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Fascism: A Warning
Madeleine Albright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fast Break
Edward Hirsch

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Fast Pitch
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Dorothy Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Fat Ham
James Ijames

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2023

Father and I Were Ranchers
Ralph Moody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1950