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ALPHABETICAL

The Folk Keeper
Franny Billingsley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Following Story
Cees Nooteboom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Food Explorer
Daniel Stone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Food of the Gods
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Force
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Foreign Student
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Forest Grimm (The Forest Grimm, #1)
Kathryn Purdie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Forest Lover
Susan Vreeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
David George Haskell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Forever Girl (Wildstone, #6)
Jill Shalvis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Forever of Ella and Micha
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Forever Song
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Forever War
Dexter Filkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
Greg Bear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Forge (The General, #1)
S.M. Stirling, David Drake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
David Shenk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Forgotten
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Patricia A. McKillip

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Forgotten Daughter
Caroline Dale Snedeker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1933

The Forgotten Door
Alexander Key

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

The Forgotten Garden
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
Monica Potts

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Forgotten Hours
Katrin Schumann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Forgotten Man
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Tim Tzouliadis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Fort
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Fortnight in September
R.C. Sherriff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Fortunate Ones
Ellen Umansky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Fortune Hunter
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Fortunes
Peter Ho Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Fortune Teller
Gwendolyn Womack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Foundation Pit
Andrei Platonov, Andrey Platonov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Foundations of Buddhism (OPUS)
Rupert Gethin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Founding Fish
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Founding of New England
James Truslow Adams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1921

The Foundling
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Fountain Overflows
Rebecca West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fountains of Silence: A Novel
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Janet Mills

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Four Feathers
A.E.W. Mason, Gary Hoppenstand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Four Graces (Miss Buncle #4)
D.E. Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Four Loves
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Four-Part Key
Scott Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fourteenth Goldfish
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Fourth Bear
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Fourth Friend (Jackman & Evans #3)
Joy Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fourth Hand
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Fourth Man (Jack Reacher, #23.5)
Lee Child

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1)
J.D. Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Fourth Protocol
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Fourth Stall
Chris Rylander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Fox
D.H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Foxglove King
Hannah F. Whitten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
Nora Sakavic

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Fragile Threads of Power
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Franco-Prussian War
Michael Eliot Howard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Fraternity of the Stone (Mortalis, #2)
David Morrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Fraud
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Freedom Manifesto
Tom Hodgkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Freedom Maze
Delia Sherman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Freedom Summer Murders
Don Mitchell

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

The Free Sea (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)
Hugo Grotius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Free World
David Bezmozgis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Friend
Teresa Driscoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Friendship War
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019