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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Final Solution
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Final Warning
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Financial Lives of the Poets
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Financier (Trilogy of Desire, #1)
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Finder
Colin Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Finders (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #1)
Jeffrey B. Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
Melissa Jensen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Fine Print
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fire
Katherine Neville

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Fire Between High & Lo
Brittainy C. Cherry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Firebird
Susanna Kearsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Firefly Letters
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2010

The Fireman
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fire Sermon (The Fire Sermon, #1)
Francesca Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Fires of Spring
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)
Evan Winter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Fire (The Eight, #2)
Katherine Neville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Fire This Time
Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fire Within
Chris d'Lacey

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Firework-Maker's Daughter
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Firm
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Firm (The Firm, #1)
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H.W. Brands

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

The First and Second Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The First Bad Man
Miranda July

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The First Day of Spring
Nancy Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The First Emma
Camille Di Maio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The First Four Years
Garth Williams, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The First Husband
Laura Dave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The First Ladies
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The First Law Trilogy
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The First Man
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells, Steven McLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The First Mistake
Sandie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
Lesley Hazleton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The First Part Last
Angela Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The First Phone Call from Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The First Rule of Punk
Celia C. Perez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The First Stone
Don Aker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The First Summit
Theodore A. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The First Time
Joy Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The First to Die at the End
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The First Treatise of Government
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1689

The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The First Wives Club
Olivia Goldsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The First World War
John Keegan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
Avner Offer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The First World War: Volume I: To Arms
Hew Strachan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Fish Can Sing
Halldór Laxness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Fisherman
John Langan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fishermen
Chigozie Obioma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fish That Ate The Whale
Rich Cohen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Fist of God
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Five-Forty-Eight
John Cheever

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
Joanne Rocklin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate
Gary Chapman

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Five Love Languages of Children
Gary Chapman, D. Ross Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Five-Star Weekend
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fix (Amos Decker, #3)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fixer
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Fixer Upper
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Flame and the Flower (Birmingham, #1)
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Flame Bearer
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Elspeth Huxley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

The Flatshare
Beth O'Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Fledgling (Hall Family Chronicles #4)
Jane Langton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

The Flick
Annie Baker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Flight Girls
Noelle Salazar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Flight Portfolio
Julie Orringer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Floating Opera
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Flood
David Sachs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Flower Drum Song
C.Y. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
Van Wyck Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

The Fly
Elise Gravel

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2018

The Fog
James Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Fold
Peter Clines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Fold (Threshold, #2)
Peter Clines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015