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The Ugly Little Boy
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Ultimate Safari
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Underground Man
Mick Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Union Buries Its Dead
Henry Lawson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Universe in a Single Atom
Dalai Lama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Gavin Extence

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Unlikely Disciple
Kevin Roose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Unquiet Earth
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
Keija Parssinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Unvanquished
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
Kien Nguyen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA

The Upside of Unrequited
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA

The Usual Rules
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ulysses
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Umbertina
Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Uncle Tungsten
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult

Uncommon Type
Tom Hanks

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Undaunted Courage
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Under a Painted Sky
Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA

Under a Shooting Star
Maxine Trottier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Under the Dome
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Under the Skin: A Novel
James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Under the Sun
O Thiam Chin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Unearthly
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | YA

Unforgivable Blackness
Geoffrey C. Ward

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Unfriended
Rachel Vail

Fiction | Novel | YA

UnGuarded
Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Unhooking the Moon
Gregory Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Unique
Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Barry M. Prizant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

United
Cory Booker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Un Lun Dun
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | YA

Unraveled
C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult

UnSelfie
Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Until Friday Night
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | YA

Until I Find You
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Until Tuesday
Luis Carlos Montalvan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Up A Road Slowly
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Upon the Head of the Goat
Aranka Siegal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade

Uprooted
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Julie T. Lamana

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Us
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult