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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 Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

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
Paul Holes, Robin Gaby Fisher

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
J. B. West, Mary Lynn Kotz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

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
Junji Ito, Transl. Yuji Oniki

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
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

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

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
Don Martin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

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
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, 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

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Volkswagen Blues
Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Volpone
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

Vow of Thieves
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Voyage In The Dark
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Voyager
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Wage Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1848

Wait
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952