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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Family Affair
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Family Apart
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Family by Any Other Name
Bruce Gillespie

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

A Farewell to Alms
Gregory Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Flea in Her Ear
Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Fortunate Man
John Berger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

A Free Life
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Friend of the Earth
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA

Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Fair Weather
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Faithful Place
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Fake ID
Lamar Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA

Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA

Fallout
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | YA

Family Life
Akhil Sharma

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Family Tree
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Famous All Over Town
Danny Santiago

Fiction | Novel | YA

Famous Last Words
Katie Alender

Fiction | Novel | YA

Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | YA

Fanny Hill
John Cleland

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Far and Away
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Farewell, My Queen
Chantal Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Far Far Away
Tom McNeal

Fiction | Novel | YA

Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Far to Go
Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Fat Kid Rules The World
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA

Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fear Street
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Feast Your Eyes
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentent Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Feel Free
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Felix Longoria's Wake
Patrick J. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ferryman
Claire Mcfall

Fiction | Novel | YA

Fever
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Fields of Fire: A Novel
James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Fifty Shades Darker
E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fifty Shades Freed
E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA

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

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

Figures of Enchantment
Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Final Days
Susan Orpett Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Final Gifts
Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Finders Keepers
Emily Rodda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Finding Audrey
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | YA

Finding Emilie
Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Finding Moon
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Finding Nouf
Zoe Ferraris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Finding Winnie
Lindsay Mattick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Finding Zoe
Brandi Rarus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Fire and Fury
Michael Wolff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Fire and Ice
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fire at Sea
Thomas Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Fire on the Mountain
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fire Season
Philip Connors

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

First Farmers
Peter Bellwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

First in Their Hearts
Thomas James Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

First Kill
Michael Kronenwetter

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fish
L. S. Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Five Flavors of Dumb
Antony John

Fiction | Novel | YA

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Five Seasons
A.B. Yehoshua

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Five Women Who Loved Love
Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Fixing Patriarchy
Donald E. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Flash Boys
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin Abbott Abbott

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Flawed Dogs
Berkeley Breathed

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Fledgling: Jason Steed
Mark A. Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Flesh and Blood So Cheap
Albert Marrin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

Flesh and Bone
Cydney Chadwick

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult