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First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Fish Cheeks
Amy Tan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence
Geoffrey Canada

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Five Broken Blades
Mai Corland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Five Children and It
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz
Olga Lengyel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1947

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Five Feet Apart
Rachael Lippincott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Five Flights Up
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Five Little Indians
Michelle Good

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Five Survive
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Five Total Strangers
Natalie D. Richards

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Flamer
Mike Curato

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

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1884

Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Flawed
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Flawless
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Flesh and Blood So Cheap
Albert Marrin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2011

Fleur
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

Flight
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

Flight: A Novel
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Flight Of The Puffin
Ann Braden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Flight Of The Sparrow: A Novel of Early America
Amy Belding Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Flights
Transl. Jennifer Croft, Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Flipped
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Float
Laura Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Flock
Kate Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Flora And Ulysses
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Florence Adler Swims Forever
Rachel Beanland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Flowering Judas
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1930

Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1966

Flowers In The Attic
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

Flush
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Flush: A Biography
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Fly Away
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Flygirl
Sherri L. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Flying Home
Ralph Ellison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Ellen Oh

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Flying Solo
Ralph Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Flyin' West
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Foe
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Follow the River
James Alexander Thom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Fool Me Once
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fools Crow
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Football Genius
Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

For A Poet
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

Forbidden City
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Force of Nature
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Forever...
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

Forever, Interrupted: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

For Every One
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2018

Forge
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Forged By Fire
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Forgetfulness
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Forget Me Not
Ellie Terry

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Matthew Quick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

For Love
Robert Creeley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

For One More Day
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Forrest Gump
Winston Groom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

For the Equal Rights Amendment
Shirley Chisholm

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1970

Fortunately, the Milk
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
William C. Rhoden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

For You O Democracy
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Foster
Claire Keegan

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2010

Foul Lady Fortune
Chloe Gong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Foul Trouble
John Feinstein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Found
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Four Eyes
Rex Ogle

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Four Freedoms Speech
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi, ed., Keisha N. Blain, ed.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Four Perfect Pebbles
Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Lila Perl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Four Poems for Robin
Gary Snyder

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Foxglove
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Fragment 31
Sappho

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Fra Lippo Lippi
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Framed
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Framed!
James Ponti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818