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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 Strategy

Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Exodus

Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Exodus

Kate Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Hans Rosling, Ola 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

Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success

John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

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

Faker

Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Fake Skating

Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

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 of Ruin and Wrath

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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

Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor

Christine Kuehn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Break

Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

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

Father Comes Home From the Wars

Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Fatherland

Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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

Fear of Flying

Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

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