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The Ugly Little Boy
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Underground Man
Mick Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Union Buries Its Dead
Henry Lawson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1893

The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Gavin Extence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Kevin Roose

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Unquiet Earth
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
Keija Parssinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
Kien Nguyen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown, Don Brown

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2018

The Usual Rules
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Umbertina
Edvige Giunta, Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright, Richard Yarborough

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

Uncle Tungsten
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Uncommon Type
Tom Hanks

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Under a Shooting Star
Maxine Trottier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Under the Skin
James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Under the Sun
O Thiam Chin, O. Thiam Chin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Frances Mayes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Unearthly (Unearthly, #1)
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Geoffrey C. Ward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Unfriended
Rachel Vail

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

UnGuarded
Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Unhooking the Moon
Gregory Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Unique
Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
Cory Booker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Un Lun Dun
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Unraveled (UN-Forgettable, #2)
C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Until I Find You
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Up a Road Slowly
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Aranka Siegal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Uprooted
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Julie T. Lamana

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Us
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014