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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 Stars
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Under the Sun
O Thiam Chin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Under Water
Tara Menon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Unite Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2014

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations General Assembly

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1948

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

Unpolished Gem
Alice Pung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Unraveled
C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

UnSelfie
Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Untamed
Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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

Uptown Girl
Christie Brinkley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Us
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Vacation Under the Volcano
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Vagabond
Tim Curry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Value Proposition Design
Alexander Osterwalder

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Violets Are Blue
Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore
Emily Krempholtz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Virgin River
Robyn Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Virtual Light
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

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

Vladimir
Julia May Jonas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Voices in the City
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Voices of Protest
Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Vox
Christina Dalcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Voyeur
Daniel Judson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Wabi Sabi
Beth Kempton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Wahala
Nikki May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wait for Me
Amy Jo Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Wait for You
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Disaster
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Walking Since Daybreak
Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Walk in My Combat Boots
Matt Eversmann, James Patterson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Walk the Blue Line
Matt Eversmann, Chris Mooney, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Walk the Wire
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 for the Oaks
Emma Bull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

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