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A Fable
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

A Face in the Crowd
Stephen King, Stewart O'Nan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

A Face Like Glass
Frances Hardinge

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

A Faint Cold Fear
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

A Fall of Marigolds
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fall of Moondust
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

A Familiar Sight
Brianna Labuskes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Familiar Stranger
A.R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Fan's Notes (A Fan's Notes, #1)
Frederick Exley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Faraway Island (A Faraway Island #1)
Annika Thor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

A Farewell to Alms
Gregory Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A Fatal Grace
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Fatal Inversion
Barbara Vine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Fate Inked in Blood
Danielle Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Fate of Wrath & Flame
K.A. Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Father's Story
Lionel Dahmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

A Favor for a Favor
Helena Hunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

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

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

A Field of Darkness (Madeline Dare, #1)
Cornelia Read

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Fierce Discontent
Michael McGerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom, #7)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

A Fine and Private Place
Peter S. Beagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Fine White Dust
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

A Fire Endless
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Fire in the Flesh
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Fire Sparkling
Julianne MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Fistful of Charms
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Floating City
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

A Formal Feeling
Zibby Oneal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Fortunate Life
A.B. Facey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

A Fortunate Man
John Berger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

A Fraction of the Whole
Steve Toltz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Fable
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Fablehaven
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves
Bill Willingham, Shawn McManus, Mark Buckingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Face
Benjamin Zephaniah

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 2004

Face (Complete Works of Cecile Pineda series)
Cecile Pineda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Faceless
Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Faces in the Crowd
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Face the Fire
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Factory Girls
Michelle Gallen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Factotum
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Fade
Lisa McMann

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Fade Away
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Fade Out
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Faefever
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Faery in Shadow
C.J. Cherryh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Faggots
Larry Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1953

Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Gene Kranz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Fair and Tender Ladies
Lee Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Fairest
Gail Carson Levine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Fairest of All (Villains, #1)
Serena Valentino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Fair Game
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3)
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fair Play
Rachel MacPherson

Nonfiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Fair Weather
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Fairy Tail, Vol. 01
William Flanagan, Hiro Mashima

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Fairy Tale
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022