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Fuel the Fire
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1618

Fugitive Colors
Lisa Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Full Body Burden
Kristen Iversen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Full Cicada Moon
Marilyn C. Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Full House
Steffie Hall, Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Full Measures (Flight & Glory, #1)
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
Hiromu Arakawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3
Hiromu Arakawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Full Moon o Sagashite, Vol. 1
Arina Tanemura, Tomo Kimura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Full Moon Rising
Keri Arthur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Full of Beans
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Full Tilt
Emma Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Fumifugium
John Evelyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Fundamental Problems of Marxism
Georgi Plekhanov

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

FunJungle: Belly Up, Poached, Big Game
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
Laurie Zaleski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Funny Girl
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Funnyhouse of a Negro
Adrienne Kennedy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Funny In Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Funny Story
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Funny You Should Ask
Elissa Sussman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Furaha Means Happy: A Book of Swahili Words
Ken Wilson-Max

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)
Jim Butcher, Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Furious Love
Sam Kashner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Fury
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Furyborn (Empirium, #1)
Claire Legrand

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Futures and Frosting
Tara Sivec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Future Shock
Alvin Toffler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
David Wong, Jason Pargin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Fuzzy Mud
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Fuzzy Nation
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Fable of the Bees
Bernard Mandeville

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fabulous Clipjoint (Ed & Am Hunter #1)
Fredric Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Face
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Facebook Effect
David Kirkpatrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Faceless Ones
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)
Anne Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Face of Deception
Iris Johansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Face of Imperialism
Michael Parenti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Face on the Milk Carton
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Fairy Ring
Mary Losure

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Faithful Spy (John Wells, #1)
Alex Berenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Fake Mate
Lana Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fake Out
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Fakir
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Falconer
Dana Czapnik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Falconer (The Falconer, #1)
Elizabeth May

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Fall
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Fall (CHERUB, #7)
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Fallen
T. Jefferson Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Fallen (Amos Decker, #4)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fallen Angel
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Fallen Star
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Falling in Love Montage
Ciara Smyth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

The Fall of Five
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Fall of Gondolin
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Fall of Lucifer (Chronicles of Brothers, #1)
Wendy Alec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Fall of the Governor: Part One
Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fallout (The Compound, #2)
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The False Princess
Eilis O'Neal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Familiars
Stacey Halls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Family
Mario Puzo, Carol Gino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Family Across the Street
Nicole Trope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Family Business
Carl Weber, Eric Pete

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012