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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1852

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1968

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1912

The Elephant In The Room
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Elephant Whisperer
Lawrence Anthony

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Eleventh Plague
Jeff Hirsch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Embassy of Cambodia
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Empathy Exams
Leslie Jamison

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Emperor Jones
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1837

The Enchantress Of Florence
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The End and the Beginning
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The Endless Steppe
Esther Hautzig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1968

The End of Drum-Time
Hanna Pylväinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The End of Science Fiction
Lisel Mueller

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

The End Of The Affair
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The End We Start From
Megan Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Enemy
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Enormous Egg
Oliver Butterworth

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

The Enormous Radio
John Cheever

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Ersatz Elevator
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Essence of Christianity
Ludwig Feuerbach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1841

The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ethics Of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1947

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1987

The Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

The Everlasting Man
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Ex Hex
Erin Sterling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Exiles
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Expatriates
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Expatriates
Janice Y. K. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Expats
Chris Pavone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1771

The Explorer
Katherine Rundell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Explosion
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Eyes Have It
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984