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The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Emperor of Any Place
Tim Wynne-Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Emperor of Ice Cream
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Empire of Gold
Shannon Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Empire of Necessity
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Employees
Olga Ravn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Empress
Michelle Heard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Empty Space
Peter Brook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Enchanted
Rene Denfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Ending Writes Itself
Evelyn Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Todd Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of Detroit
Micheline Maynard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The End of Eddy
Édouard Louis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of Her
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The End of Nature
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The End of the Point
Elizabeth Graver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The End of the World as We Know It
Brian Keene, Christopher Golden, Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2025

The End of White Christian America
Robert P. Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Caroline Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Enemy
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Enemy
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Engineer's Wife
Tracey Enerson Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The English Teacher
Yiftach Reicher Atir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Enlightenment
Norman Hampson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
Sara Raasch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Escape Artist
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Escape Game
Tamara Moss, Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
Peter F. Drucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Essential Rumi
Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Eternal Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Europeans
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Eve of Destruction
James Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Everything Store
Brad Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Evolution of Beauty
Richard O. Prum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Evolution of God
Robert Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Exes
Leodora Darlington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club
Gloria Chao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Exonerated
Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

The Experience Machine
Andy Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Experiment
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Ex Talk
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Extraordinary Adventures Of Alfred Kropp
Richard (Rick) Yancey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
Sara Brunsvold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001