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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Peter Reed, Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Family Affair
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1881

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Flag for Sunrise
Robert Stone, Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Flea in Her Ear
Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
John Berger, Jean Mohr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

A Free Life
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Friend of the Earth
T. Coraghessan Boyle, T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Fair Weather
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Fallout (Crank, #3)
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Published in 2010

Family Life
Akhil Sharma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Family Tree
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Famous All Over Town
Danny Santiago

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1984

Famous Last Words
Katie Alender

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Farewell, My Queen
Moishe Black, Chantal Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Far Far Away
Tom McNeal

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Far to Go
Alison Pick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Fatelessness
Tim Wilkinson, Imre Kertesz, Imre Kertész

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Fat Kid Rules the World
K. L. Going, K.L. Going

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Fear of Flying
Erica Jong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Fear Street Saga
R.L. Stine, R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Feast Your Eyes
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Feeding the Ghosts
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Feel Free: Essays
Zadie Smith

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Felicia's Journey
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Ferryman (Ferryman, #1)
Claire Mcfall

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Fever
Mary Beth Keane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ficciones
Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner, Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

Fields of Fire: A Novel
James Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Fierce Attachments
Jonathan Lethem, Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
E.L. James, E. L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Figures of Enchantment
Zulfikar Ghose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
Emily Rodda, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Finding Audrey
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Finding Emilie
Laurel Corona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Finding Moon
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Finding Winnie
Lindsay Mattick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fire and Ice (Ice, #5)
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Fire on the Mountain
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Philip Connors

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
Peter Bellwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

First Kill
Michael Kronenwetter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Fish
L. S. Matthews, L.S. Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Five Flavors of Dumb
Antony John

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Five Seasons (Love & War Trilogy, #3)
A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Five Women Who Loved Love
Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Fixing Patriarchy
Donald E. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, Ron Powers, James D. Bradley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Fledgling (Jason Steed, #1)
Mark A. Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Flesh and Bone
Cydney Chadwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Floating in My Mother's Palm
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Fly Away Peter
David Malouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Flying Carpets
Hedy Habra

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

Following Fake Man
Barbara Ware Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Fontamara
Ignazio Silone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Fool for Love
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

Fools and Other Stories
Njabulo S. Ndebele

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994