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Father Comes Home From the Wars

Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Father Returning Home

Dilip Chitre

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Fathers And Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Fatty Legs: A True Story

Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Faust, Part One

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1829

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Fear And Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1843

Fearless

Lauren Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Feed

M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Fefu and Her Friends

María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Fellowship Point

Alice Elliott Dark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Fences

August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Fern Hill

Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Fever

John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Fever Beach

Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Fever Dream

Transl. Megan McDowell, Samanta Schweblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Fiddler on the Roof

Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Fiela's Child (Fiela se Kind)

Dalene Matthee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Field Guide to the North American Teenager

Ben Philippe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

Kai Cheng Thom

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Fifteen Dogs

Andre Alexis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Fifth Grade Autobiography

Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Fifty Shades Darker

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey

E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fifty Words for Rain

Asha Lemmie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

Amie Parnes, Jonathan Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Fight Night

Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman, John M. Gottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Finale

Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Final Girls: A Novel

Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Finally Seen

Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Finders Keepers

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Mitch Albom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Finding Cinderella

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Finding Dorothy

Elizabeth Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Finding Fish

Antwone Quenton Fisher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Finding Junie Kim

Ellen Oh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Finding Langston

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Finding Mañana

Mirta Ojito

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel

Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Find Me

André Aciman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, And Hope In An African Slum

Jessica Posner, Kennedy Odede

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead

Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Fire and Ice

Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Fire and Ice

Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Firebird

Juliette Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Fire & Blood

George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fireborne

Rosaria Munda

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Firefight

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Firefly Lane

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Fire from the Rock

Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Firegirl

Tony Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Fire in the Ashes

Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Charles M. Blow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Fires In The Mirror

Anna Deavere Smith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Firestarter

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

First Confession

Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

First Death in Nova Scotia

Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

First They Came...

Martin Niemöller

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

First-Time Caller

B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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