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Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill Browder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

French Braid
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

French Exit
Patrick Dewitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth M. Holmes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Fresh Ink: An Anthology
Lamar Giles

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fresh Water for Flowers
Valérie Perrin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Buzz Bissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Friedrich
Hans Peter Richter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1990

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Frightful's Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Frindle
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

From Here to the Great Unknown
Lisa Marie Presley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Arthur C. Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Jesse Thistle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

From The Dark Tower
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

From the Desire Field
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Janae Marks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

From the Wave
Thom Gunn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Front Desk
Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Fudge-a-Mania
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1618

Full Body Burden
Kristen Iversen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Full Cicada Moon
Marilyn C. Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Full of Beans
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Full Tilt
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Funny In Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Funny Story
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Funny You Should Ask
Elissa Sussman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Fuzzy Mud
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Galatea
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Gallant
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Game Changer
Tommy Greenwald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Game Changer
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Games at Twilight
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Games Untold
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Gang Leader For a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Gangsta Granny
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gargantua And Pantagruel
François Rabelais, Transl. Thomas Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

Gate A-4
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
George Chauncey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Generals Die In Bed
Charles Yale Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Generations of Captivity
Ira Berlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

George
Alex Gino

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

George Gray
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

George's Marvelous Medicine
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel
Américo Paredes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

George Washington's Farewell Address
George Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1796

George Washington's Socks
Elvira Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Gerald's Game
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Germinal
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
Bianca Bosker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Getting to Yes
William Ury, Roger Fisher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

Ghettoside
Jill Leovy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ghost
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body (2011)
Martin Pistorius

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosted
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ghost Of Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1881

Ghosts
Dolly Alderton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Mark Harmon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001