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For a Lost Soldier
Rudi van Dantzig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Forced Founders
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Fordlandia
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Forest Dark
Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Forget Me
K.A. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Forgive Me
Amanda Eyre Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Forgotten Fire
Adam Bagdasarian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

For Love of Country
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

For the Clan
Archer Kay Leah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Nathan Englander

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

For the Sake of Elena
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

For the Time Being
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

For Today I Am a Boy
Kim Fu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Fortune Smiles
Adam Johnson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Forty Autumns
Nina Willner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Forty Words For Sorrow
Giles Blunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Founding Faith
Steven Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Four Blind Mice
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Four Miles to Pinecone
Jon Hassler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Fourth of July Creek
Smith Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Foxfire
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Frankenstein's Cat
Emily Anthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Freaky Green Eyes
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman
Arna Bontemps

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1961

Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Freedom Riders
Ann Bausum

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Freedom Summer
Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Walkers
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Frog Music
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

From a Buick 8
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

From a Distance
Tamera Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

From Here to Eternity
James Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

From Russia, With Love
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

From Sleep Unbound
Andree Chedid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Funny Girl
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Furious Love
Sam Kashner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Facebook Effect
David Kirkpatrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Yann Martel

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Fade Out
Ed Brubaker

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Faith Club
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fakir
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Family of Pascual Duarte
Camilo José Cela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Farm
Joanne Ramos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Father
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Female Imagination
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Female Man
Joanna Russ

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Feral Detective
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Festival of Insignificance
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fiery Trial
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Fifth Gospel
Ian Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fifth Mountain
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fifth Witness
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Fig Orchard
Layla Fiske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Film Club
David Gilmour

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Final Journey
Gudrun Pausewang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Financial Lives of the Poets
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
Melissa Jensen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The First Part Last
Angela Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The First Phone Call from Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The First Stone
Mark Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The First Summit
Theodore A. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
Avner Offer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Fisherman
John Langan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fish That Ate The Whale
Rich Cohen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Joanne Rocklin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Fixer
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Flight Portfolio
Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Fly
Elise Gravel

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

The Food Explorer
Daniel Stone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Force
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Foreign Student
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016