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The Ugly Little Boy
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Underground Man
Mick Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Union Buries Its Dead
Henry Lawson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1893

The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Universe in a Single Atom
Dalai Lama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Gavin Extence

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Unlikely Disciple
Kevin Roose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Unquiet Earth
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
Keija Parssinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Unvanquished
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
Kien Nguyen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown

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

The Upside of Unrequited
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Usual Rules
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Umbertina
Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1938

Uncle Tungsten
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Uncommon Type
Tom Hanks

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Undaunted Courage
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Under a Shooting Star
Maxine Trottier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Under the Skin: A Novel
James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Under the Sun
O Thiam Chin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Unearthly
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Unforgivable Blackness
Geoffrey C. Ward

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

UnGuarded
Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Unhooking the Moon
Gregory Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Unique
Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Barry M. Prizant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

United
Cory Booker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Un Lun Dun
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Unraveled
C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

UnSelfie
Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Until I Find You
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Until Tuesday
Luis Carlos Montalvan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Up A Road Slowly
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1966

Upon the Head of the Goat
Aranka Siegal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Julie T. Lamana

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Us
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014