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The First Treatise of Government
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1689

The First World War
John Keegan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Five-Star Weekend
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
Joe Siple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Five Year Lie
Sarina Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Flea
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

The Flesh and the Spirit
Anne Bradstreet

Nonfiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1643

The Flick
Annie Baker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Floating Opera
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Flock
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

The Flowers
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The Flower Sisters
Michelle Collins Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Fly
Karl Shapiro

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

The Fly
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Forever War
Joe Haldeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
Gregory A. Freeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Fort
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Foundling
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Fountains of Silence: A Novel
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Four Loves
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Fourteenth Goldfish
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Fourth Stall
Chris Rylander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Fourth State of Matter
Jo Ann Beard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
William Strauss, Neil Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fox Wife
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Fragile Threads of Power
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fraud
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Erin Gruwell and Freedom Writers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Friend
Sigrid Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Friendship War
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Friend Zone
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Frogs
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fundamentals of Ethics
Russ Shafer Landau

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Fun They Had
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

The Furnished Room
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

The Fury
Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Future
Naomi Alderman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Future of Life
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
Tom Rivett-Carnac, Christiana Figueres

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Game of Silence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Games Gods Play
Abigail Owen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Le Thi Diem Thuy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

The Garden of Love
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
Anita Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Garies and Their Friends
Frank J. Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

The Gathering
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1882

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Alexandra Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The German Girl
Armando Lucas Correa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The German Ideology
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

The German Wife
Kelly Rimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ghost In The Tokaido Inn
Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Gift
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

The Gift
Marcel Mauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin De Becker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Gift of Rain
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1905

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Irvin D. Yalom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Gift Outright
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Charles Dudley Warner, Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Gilded Six-Bits
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Roald Dahl, Illustr. Quentin Blake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Girl Before
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl in His Shadow
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Girl I Used to Be
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015