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For You
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

For Your Own Good
Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Foster
Claire Keegan

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2010

Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Foul Lady Fortune
Chloe Gong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Foul Trouble
John Feinstein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Found
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Founding Faith
Steven Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Found in You
Laurelin Paige

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Foundryside
Robert Jackson Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Four: A Divergent Collection
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2014

Four Aunties and a Wedding
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Four Blind Mice
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Four Blondes
Candace Bushnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Four Dead Queens
Astrid Scholte

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Four Letters of Love
Niall Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Annalee Newitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Four Miles to Pinecone
Jon Hassler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

Four Perfect Pebbles
Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Four Seconds to Lose
K.A. Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Four Souls
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Fourteen
Alice Gerstenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
Cornelius Agrippa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Fourth of July Creek
Smith Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Four to Score
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Fox 8
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Foxe's Book of Martyrs
John Foxe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Foxfire
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Foxglove
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Foxglove Summer
Ben Aaronovitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Fractured
Catherine McKenzie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Fractured Freedom
Shain Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Fractured (Will Trent, #2)
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Fragile
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Fragile Sanctuary
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

Fragments
Dan Wells

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Framed
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

Frankenstein's Cat
Emily Anthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Frankly in Love
David Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Franz Kafka's The Castle
Max Brod, Aaron Leichter, Franz Kafka, David Fishelson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Fräulein Else
Arthur Schnitzler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Freak Show
James St. James

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Freaky Friday
Mary Rodgers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

Freaky Green Eyes
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Freckle Juice
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Frederica
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman
Arna Bontemps

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1961

Free
Lea Ypi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Chris Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Freed
E.L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Freedom
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom™
Daniel Suarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Freedom Crossing
Margaret Goff Clark

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Robin Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Freedom from the Known
J. Krishnamurti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Freedom Riders
Ann Bausum

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Freedom Road
Howard Fast, Eric Foner, W.E.B. Du Bois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Freedom Summer
Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Freedom Walkers
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Free Fall
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Free Fire
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Freeks
Amanda Hocking

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Free Lunch
Rex Ogle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019