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Embrace
Jessica Shirvington

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Embraced by the Light
Betty J. Eadie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Embrace the Night
Karen Chance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Embroideries
Marjane Satrapi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Emerald Blaze
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Emerald City
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Emergence
David R. Palmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

Emergency Contact
Mary H.K. Choi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner, Walter Trier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Emile: On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1763

Emily, Alone (Emily Maxwell, #2)
Stewart O'Nan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Emily Climbs
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1983

Emily Dickinson
Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1986

Emily Of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1923

Emily's House (Akasha Chronicles, #1)
Natalie Wright

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Emily's Quest
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1983

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1918

Emma
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1815

Emma: A Modern Retelling
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Emma in the Night
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Emmy & Oliver
Robin Benway

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Emotional First Aid
Guy Winch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Emperor Mage
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Emperor of the Air
Ethan Canin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Empire Falls
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Empire of Hate
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Empire of Ivory
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
Tasha Suri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1)
Christopher Ruocchio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Empire of Sin
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Empire of the Ants (La Saga des Fourmis, #1)
Bernard Werber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Empress Orchid
Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Empty Mansions
Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
Margarita Engle

Nonfiction | Memoir in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Enchanters' End Game
David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1984

Enchantress from the Stars
Sylvia Engdahl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

Enclave
Ann Aguirre

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Enclave (Razorland, #1)
Ann Aguirre

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Encore in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Encounters at the Heart of the World
Elizabeth A. Fenn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Endangered
Eliot Schrefer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Ender in Exile
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Endgame
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

End Game
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Endless Knight
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Endless Love
Scott Spencer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Endlessly
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Endless Night
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

End of Days
Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

End of Days (End of Days, #1)
Eric Walters

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

End of Watch
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Endpapers
Jennifer Savran Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

End Times at Ridgemont High
Ian Welke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Endurance
Scott Kelly

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1959

Enduring Love
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Endymion
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

End Zone
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Enemies
Tijan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Enemy at the Gates
Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Enemy of God
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Enemy Of The State
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Enemy Women
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Enfranchisement of Women: An Essay
Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Engine Summer
John Crowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

England, England
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998