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Tyrant
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Tyrell
Coe Booth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ultra 85
Logic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Umbertina
Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Unbound
Tarana Burke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Unbreakable
Vonda Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Lilliana Mason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three
Dawn Staley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Uncommon Type
Tom Hanks

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Uncultured
Daniella Mestyanek Young

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Under a Shooting Star
Maxine Trottier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Under Currents
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Under Fire
Henri Barbusse, Transl. Robin Buss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Under Her Care
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Underland
Robert Macfarlane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Under Loch and Key
Lana Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Story
Chloe Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Under the Bridge
Rebecca Godfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Under the Egg
Laura Marx Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Under the Falls
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Under the Iron Sky
A. T. Emerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Under the Magnolias
T. I. Lowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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
Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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 Stars
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Under the Sun
O Thiam Chin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Under the Tulip Tree
Michelle Shocklee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Under Water
Tara Menon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Undivided
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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

Undone
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Unearthly
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Unfinished
Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Unfollow
Megan Phelps-Roper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Unforgivable Blackness
Geoffrey C. Ward

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Unforgiven
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Unfortunately Yours
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
Gary John Bishop

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter
Katya Suvorova

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

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

United as One
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
Anthony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Unlocked
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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

Unravel Me
Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Unseen
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

UnSelfie
Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Unshakeable
Tony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Unsouled
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Unsouled
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Untamed
Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Untamed Shore
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood
Lisa Damour

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

Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Us
Terrence Real

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Us
Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

U.S.A.
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Valis
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Valley of the Moms
Hannah Selinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Valley Song
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Valor
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Value Proposition Design
Alexander Osterwalder

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

Vampire High
Douglas Rees

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003