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Faro's Daughter
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Farthing (Small Change, #1)
Jo Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Far to Go
Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fascism: A Warning
Madeleine Albright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fast Break
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Fast Pitch
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Fatal Inheritance
Rachel Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Ruth Scurr

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Fatal Vision
Joe McGinniss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Fatal Voyage
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Fat Cat
Robin Brande

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Fat Chance
Lesléa Newman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Fat City
Leonard Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fate
Amanda Hocking

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Fated
Benedict Jacka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fatelessness
Imre Kertesz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Fate's Edge
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Fat Ham
James Ijames

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2023

Father and I Were Ranchers
Ralph Moody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

Father and Son
Larry Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Father Brown Stories
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Father Comes Home From the Wars
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Fatherland
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
Burkhard Bilger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Fathers And Sons
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Father's Day
Simon Van Booy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fat Kid Rules The World
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Fatty Legs: A True Story
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Fattypuffs and Thinifers
André Maurois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Fault Lines
Emily Itami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Faust, First Part
Peter Salm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Faust, Part One
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1829

Faust, Part Two
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Fawkes
Nadine Brandes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

F*ck Love
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Fear
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Fear And Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1843

Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Fearless
Eric Blehm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, #14)
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Fear Me
B.B. Reid

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Fear No Evil
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Fear Nothing
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fear Nothing (Detective D.D. Warren, #8)
Dean Koontz, Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Fear of the Dark (Aaron Gunner, #1)
Gar Anthony Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Fear Street
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Feast of Fools
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Feast Your Eyes
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Thor Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

February
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Feed
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

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

Feeding the Mind
Lewis Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)
Tabitha Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
Mira Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Feel Free
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
David D. Burns

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Fefu and Her Friends
María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Felita
Nicholasa Mohr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Felix Longoria's Wake
Patrick J. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Fellowship Point
Alice Elliott Dark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Fences
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Fence, Vol. 1
C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Rebecca Nalty

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Fence, Vol. 2
C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Fence, Vol. 3
C.S. Pacat

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Fenway and Hattie (Fenway and Hattie, #1)
Victoria J. Coe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
George Monbiot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Feral Sins (The Phoenix Pack, #1)
Suzanne Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
Rex Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Ferdydurke
Witold Gombrowicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Fermat's Enigma
John Lynch, Simon Singh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Ferris
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024