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Under a Shooting Star

Maxine Trottier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Under Fire

Henri Barbusse, Transl. Robin Buss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Underground Airlines

Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Understanding by Design

Jay McTighe, Grant P. Wiggins

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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 Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Linda Villarosa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Under the Sun

O Thiam Chin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

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

Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Lysa TerKeurst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Universality

Natasha Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Unlikely Story

Ali Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive

Kevin Horsley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Un Lun Dun

China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Unnatural Exposure

Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Unraveled

C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

UnSelfie

Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Untamed Shore

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Up For Air

Laurie Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

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

Vacation Under the Volcano

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Valhalla Rising

Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Valiant Ambition

Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Valley Song

Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Vampire High

Douglas Rees

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Vanka

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1886

Varina

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Veil of Roses

Laura Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Vera (mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Vera, or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vernon God Little

D.B.C. Pierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Vertigo

Joanna Walsh

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Very Valentine

Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Victory

Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Video

Yvonne Spielmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Vinegar Girl

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Violence Over the Land

Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning

Danette Haworth

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Violets Are Blue

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Virgil

Steve Orlando

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

Lyndall Gordon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Visible Worlds

Marilyn Bowering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Visual Intelligence

Amy E. Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Voices in the City

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Voices of Protest

Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Voyeur

Daniel Judson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Wabi Sabi

Beth Kempton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Waiting

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Waiting for an Angel

Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Waiting for Normal

Leslie Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Carlos Eire

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Waiting for the Rain

Sheila Gordon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Waking Gods

Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Waking Lions

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Waking Up White

Debby Irving

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Walden Two

B. F. Skinner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Walking Since Daybreak

Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Walkin' the Dog

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Walk in Their Shoes

Jim Ziolkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Walk On Earth A Stranger

Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wall and Piece

Banksy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song

Jim Perlman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

War and Turpentine

Stefan Hertmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

War Comes to Willy Freeman

James Lincoln Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

War Dances

Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

War of a Thousand Deserts

Brian Delay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Warrior Princess Assassin

Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Warrior's Heart

Jackie Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wartime Lies

Louis Begley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

War Trash

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wasted

Marya Hornbacher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Watchers

Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Watching Over Her

Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Watching TV with the Red Chinese

Luke Whisnant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Watch Me Disappear

Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Watch on the Rhine

Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Waterfall

Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Ways of Dying

Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ways to Live Forever

Sally Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008