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The Empty Throne
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Enchanted
Rene Denfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Enchantress Returns
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Endless War
Danielle L. Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Todd Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of Detroit
Micheline Maynard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The End of Eddy
Édouard Louis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of Everything
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The End of Her
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The End of Men
Christina Sweeney-Baird

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The End of Nature
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The End of the Point
Elizabeth Graver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The End of the World as We Know It
Brian Keene, Christopher Golden, Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2025

The End of White Christian America
Robert P. Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Caroline Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Enemy
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Enemy
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Enemy
Charlie Higson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Engineer's Wife
Tracey Enerson Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The English Spy
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The English Teacher
Yiftach Reicher Atir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2022

The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Enlightenment
Norman Hampson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
Sara Raasch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Escape Artist
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Escape Game
Tamara Moss, Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

The Essay
Robin Yocum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
Peter F. Drucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Essential Rumi
Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Eternal Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Ethan I Was Before
Ali Standish

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Europeans
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Eve of Destruction
James Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Ever Queen
L. J. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Everything Store
Brad Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Evolution of Beauty
Richard O. Prum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Evolution of God
Robert Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Exes
Leodora Darlington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club
Gloria Chao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Exonerated
Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

The Experience Machine
Andy Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Experiment
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy
Brigitte Knightley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Ex Talk
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Extraordinary Adventures Of Alfred Kropp
Richard (Rick) Yancey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip
Sara Brunsvold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
Trenton Lee Stewart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
Paul Newman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Ex Vows
Jessica Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Faculty Lounge
Jennifer Mathieu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Fade Out
Ed Brubaker

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

The Fair Weather Friend
Jessie Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Fake Out
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fakir
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Fallen
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fall of Berlin 1945
Antony Beevor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Fall of Five
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Fall of Gondolin
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Fall of Númenor
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

The Fall of Reach
Eric Nylund

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Familiars
Stacey Halls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Family
Naomi Krupitsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Family Across the Street
Nicole Trope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Family Experiment
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Fate of Ten
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Father
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

The Fear
Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Feeling of What Happens
António R. Damásio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
Samuel Burr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Ferryman
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023