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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

Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Jennifer Croft

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

Four Ruined Realms

Mai Corland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Frankissstein

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Frankly in Love

David Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1961

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Freak the Mighty

Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Freaky Friday

Mary Rodgers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Freckle Juice

Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Frederick Douglass

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Frederick Douglass

Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1947

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Crossing

Margaret Goff Clark

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Robin Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Freedom Summer

J. Patrick Lewis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman

Dorothy Sterling

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Free Lunch

Rex Ogle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Free To Choose

Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Freewater

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022