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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

A Family Affair
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1881

A Family Apart
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Family by Any Other Name
Bruce Gillespie

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

A Farewell to Alms
Gregory Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Claire Hartfield

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Flea in Her Ear
Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Fortunate Man
John Berger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

A Free Life
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Friend of the Earth
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Faithful Place
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
John McCain, Mark Salter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Fallout
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Family Life
Akhil Sharma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Family Tree
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Famous All Over Town
Danny Santiago

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Famous Last Words
Katie Alender

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Far and Away
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Farewell, My Queen
Chantal Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Far Far Away
Tom McNeal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1949

Far to Go
Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Fat Kid Rules The World
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Fear Street
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Feast Your Eyes
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentent Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Feel Free
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Felix Longoria's Wake
Patrick J. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Ferryman
Claire Mcfall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Fever
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1944

Fields of Fire: A Novel
James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Fifty Shades Freed
E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Fight of the Century
Michael Chabon, ed., Ayelet Waldman, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Figures of Enchantment
Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Final Days
Susan Orpett Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Final Gifts
Patricia Kelley, Maggie Callanan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Finders Keepers
Emily Rodda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Finding Audrey
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Finding Emilie
Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Finding Moon
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Finding Nouf
Zoe Ferraris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Finding Winnie
Lindsay Mattick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Finding Zoe
Brandi Rarus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Fire and Fury
Michael Wolff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fire and Ice
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Fire at Sea
Thomas Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Fire on the Mountain
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Fire Season
Philip Connors

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

First, Break All the Rules
Curt Coffman, Marcus Buckingham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

First Farmers
Peter Bellwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

First in Their Hearts
Thomas James Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

First Kill
Michael Kronenwetter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fish
L. S. Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Five Flavors of Dumb
Antony John

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Five Seasons
A.B. Yehoshua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Five Women Who Loved Love
Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Fixing Patriarchy
Donald E. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Flawed Dogs
Berkeley Breathed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Fledgling: Jason Steed
Mark A. Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Flesh and Bone
Cydney Chadwick

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Fly Away Peter
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Fly Girls
Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Flying Carpets
Hedy Habra

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Following Fake Man
Barbara Ware Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Fontamara
Ignazio Silone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Fool for Love
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Fools and Other Stories
Njabulo S. Ndebele

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Footfalls
Wilbur Daniel Steele

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

For a Lost Soldier
Rudi van Dantzig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Forced Founders
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Fordlandia
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Forest Dark
Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Forget Me
K.A. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Forgive Me
Amanda Eyre Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Forgotten Fire
Adam Bagdasarian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

For Love of Country
Howard Schultz, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

For the Clan
Archer Kay Leah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Nathan Englander

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

For the Sake of Elena
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

For the Time Being
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

For Today I Am a Boy
Kim Fu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Fortune Smiles
Adam Johnson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Forty Autumns
Nina Willner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Forty Words For Sorrow
Giles Blunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Founding Faith
Steven Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Four Blind Mice
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Four Miles to Pinecone
Jon Hassler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Fourth of July Creek
Smith Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Foxfire
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Frankenstein's Cat
Emily Anthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Freaky Green Eyes
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman
Arna Bontemps

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1961

Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Freedom Riders
Ann Bausum

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Freedom Summer
Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Walkers
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Frog Music
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

From a Buick 8
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

From a Distance
Tamera Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

From Here to Eternity
James Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

From Russia, With Love
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

From Sleep Unbound
Andree Chedid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Funny Girl
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Furious Love
Sam Kashner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Fade Out
Ed Brubaker

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

The Faith Club
Priscilla Warner, Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver

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 Fakir
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Father
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

The Feast of Love
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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 Festival of Insignificance
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fiery Trial
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Fifth Gospel
Ian Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fifth Mountain
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fifth Witness
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Fig Orchard
Layla Fiske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Film Club
David Gilmour

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Final Journey
Gudrun Pausewang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Financial Lives of the Poets
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
Melissa Jensen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The First Part Last
Angela Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The First Phone Call from Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The First Stone
Mark Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The First Summit
Theodore A. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
Avner Offer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Fisherman
John Langan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fish That Ate The Whale
Rich Cohen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Joanne Rocklin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Fixer
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Flight Portfolio
Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Fly
Elise Gravel

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

The Food Explorer
Daniel Stone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Force
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Foreign Student
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Forgotten
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Forgotten Man
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Fox
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Freedom Summer Murders
Don Mitchell

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

The Free World
David Bezmozgis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Furies
Suzy Mckee Charnas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Future of the Mind
Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Future of Us
Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011