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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Wuthering Heights
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

Xala
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Xenocide
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Yanomamo: The Fierce People
Napoleon Chagnon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Yellowface
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Yellow Wife
Sadeqa Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Yellow Woman
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit
Leslie Marmon Silko

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

You
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You, Again
Kate Goldbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Are Here
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Are Jeff
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

You Are Not Alone
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

You Can Have It
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

You Deserve Each Other
Sarah Hogle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Kelsey McKinney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

[you fit into me]
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

You Go First
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

You Killed Me First
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

You Like It Darker
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

You'll Be the Death of Me
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Young
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Yours Truly
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Shouldn't Have Come Here
Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

You've Reached Sam
Dustin Thao

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
Saadia Faruqi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Yvain, or the Knight With the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1176

Zaabalawi
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

Zach's Lie
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Zadig
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1747

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Zane and the Hurricane
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Zeitoun
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Zero Day
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Zero Days
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Zero Hour
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Z For Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Zia
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1993

Zlateh the Goat
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1966

Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Zofloya
Charlotte Dacre

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1806

Zone One
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Zoobreak
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Zoo City
Lauren Beukes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Zoot Suit
Luis Valdez

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Zora and Me
Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Zorro
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005