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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

A False Start
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Family Affair
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1881

A Family Apart
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Family by Any Other Name
Bruce Gillespie

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

A Farewell to Alms
Gregory Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic
J. Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Claire Hartfield

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fire Endless
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Flea in Her Ear
Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Haley Cohen Gilliland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Fortunate Man
John Berger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

A Free Life
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Friend of the Earth
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Face Off
Chelsea Curto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Factotum
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Fair Play
Louise Hegarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
Eve Rodsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Fair Warning
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Faithful Place
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
John McCain, Mark Salter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Fallen
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fallen City
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Falling Like Leaves
Misty Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Fallout
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Fallout
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Fall With Me
Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Family
J. California Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Family Life
Akhil Sharma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Family Tree
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Famous All Over Town
Danny Santiago

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Far and Away
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Farewell My Concubine
Lilian Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Farewell, My Queen
Chantal Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Farewell Summer
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Far Far Away
Tom McNeal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1949

Far to Go
Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Dana Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny Intermittent Fasting
Gin Stephens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Fast Like a Girl
Mindy Pelz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Fated Throne
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fate of the Sun King
Nisha J. Tuli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Fat Kid Rules The World
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Fault Lines
Meena Alexander

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Fear and Fury
Heather Ann Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Fear No Evil
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fear Street
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Feast Your Eyes
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentent Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Feel Free
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Felicia's Favorites
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Felix Longoria's Wake
Patrick J. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Female Masculinity
Jack Halberstam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Ferryman
Claire Mcfall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer
Priscilla Shirer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Fever
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

Fields of Fire: A Novel
James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time
Susan Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Fifty Fifty
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fifty Fifty
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Fifty Shades Freed
E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Fight of the Century
Michael Chabon, ed., Ayelet Waldman, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Fight Oligarchy
Bernie Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Figures of Enchantment
Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Final Days
Susan Orpett Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Final Gifts
Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Finally Heard
Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Final Offer
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
Karen Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Finders Keepers
Emily Rodda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Finding Audrey
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Finding Emilie
Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Finding Freedom
Erin French

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021