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Endymion: A Poetic Romance
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Enemies from Within Speech
Joseph McCarthy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1950

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Enough
Cassidy Hutchinson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Entrance
Dana Gioia

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Entropy
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Epicac
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

Epilogue
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Eragon
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Eraser Tattoo
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2018

Erasure
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1170

Erewhon
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Escape From Freedom
Erich Fromm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Escaping Salem
Richard Godbeer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Escaping the Giant Wave
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Esio Trot
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Eternal
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ethan Brand
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1850

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1911

Ethics
Baruch Spinoza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1677

Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1832

Eumenides
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Euphoria
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eurydice
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Euthyphro
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Eva Luna
Transl. Margaret Sayers Peden, Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1847

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Eveline
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

Even As We Breathe
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Evening Hawk
Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Everlost
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Everybody
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Every Day
David Levithan

Fiction | Novel | YA

Every Day Is for the Thief
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Everyday Use
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
Susan Elizabeth McClelland, Sungju Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2016

Every Last Secret
A. R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Everyman
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1485

Every Note Played
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead
Emily Austin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Every Soul a Star
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Every Summer After
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Kate Bowler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything Here Is Beautiful
Mira T. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Everything on a Waffle
Polly Horvath

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Everything Sad Is Untrue
Daniel Nayeri

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Everything's an Argument
Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965

Everything We Never Said
Sloan Harlow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Evil Eye: A Novel
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Evvie Drake Starts Over
Linda Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Exchanging Hats
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Executive Order 9066
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

Exhalation
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Exile
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Exile and Pride
Eli Clare

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Exiles
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Exit West
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Exodus
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Experience and Education
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Expiration Dates
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Extra Credit
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Eagle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1851

The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Echo Maker
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Echo of Old Books: A Novel
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Eclogues
Virgil

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967