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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Uncle Vanya

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Emmanuel Acho

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Under a Cruel Star: A Life In Prague, 1941-1968

Heda Margolius Kovály

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Under a Painted Sky

Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Underground To Canada

Barbara Smucker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Under the Blood Red Sun

Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Under the Dome

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Under The Feet Of Jesus

Helena Maria Viramontes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Under The Mesquite

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Under the Never Sky

Veronica Rossi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Under the Udala Trees

Chinelo Okparanta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Under the Whispering Door

T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Underworld

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Undoing Gender

Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

Annette Lareau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Unflattening

Nick Sousanis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Unfriended

Rachel Vail

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Ungifted

Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Unlikely Animals

Annie Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

Robin Gaby Fisher, Paul Holes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Devon Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Unmissing

Minka Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Unplugged

Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Unravel Me

Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Will Guidara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Unsheltered

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Unsinkable

Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Unspeakable Things

Jess Lourey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Unstoppable

Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World

Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Untamed

Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Until Friday Night

Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Until They Bring The Streetcars Back

Stanley Gordon West

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Untouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer

Kelly Jones

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

UnWholly

Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

Judson Brewer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1901

Upgrade

Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Uprising

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Uprising

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

Mary Lynn Kotz, J. B. West

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Us Against You

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind

David Berreby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1861

Utopia

Thomas More

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1516

Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There

Rutger Bregman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

Transl. Yuji Oniki, Junji Ito

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

V.

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Valentine

Elizabeth Wetmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Valentine

Wendy Cope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Valentine for Ernest Mann

Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Katherine Howe, Anderson Cooper

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Variation

Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Varjak Paw

S. F. Said

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Vathek

William Beckford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1786

Veiled Sentiments

Lila Abu-Lughod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Velvet Was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Venus

Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1593

Venus in Furs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Verity

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Vermeer's Hat

Timothy Brook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Veronika Decides To Die

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Verses upon the Burning of our House

Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson

Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Vicious

V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Vicious

L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victory City

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Derrick Barnes, Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2022

Video Blues

Mary Jo Salter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Vietgone

Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey

GB Tran

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Violeta

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Virgil Wander

Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018