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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
T.R. Simon, Victoria Bond

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