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Evidence of the Affair
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Evidence of Things Unseen
Marianne Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Evil Angels: The Case of Lindy Chamberlain
John Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Evil Eye: A Novel
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Evil Games
Angela Marsons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Evil Genius
Catherine Jinks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
Nicholas Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
Robin Brande

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Evvie Drake Starts Over
Linda Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Examination Day
Henry Slesar

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Excavation
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Excellent Women
Barbara Pym

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Excession
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
Joya Goffney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Execution
Larry Bossidy

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Charles Burck, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Executive
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Executive Power
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Exile
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1991

Exiles
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Existence
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Existence (Existence, #1)
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Exiting Nirvana
Clara Claiborne Park

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Exit, Pursued by a Bear
E. K. Johnston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Exit Strategy
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Exit West
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Exit Wounds
Rutu Modan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Exodus
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Exodus (Bible, #2)
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Expecting Adam
Martha Beck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
Emily Oster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Experience
Martin Amis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Experience and Education
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God
Henry T. Blackaby, Claude V. King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Workbook
Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King, Henry T. Blackaby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ (Library of Spiritual Classics, Volume 2)
Jeanne Guyon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Experiencing the Lifespan
Janet Belsky

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
Gregor Mendel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Expiration Date (Fault Lines, #2)
Tim Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Expiration Dates
Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Explorers on the Moon (Tintin #17)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Explosive Eighteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, Cheaper Than Yours (and What To Do About It)
Salim Ismail

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Exposed
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

Exposure
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
Robert Bilott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Exposure (Twisted Lit #2)
Kim Askew, Amy Helmes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Exquisite Corpse
Pénélope Bagieu, Poppy Z. Brite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Extinctions
Josephine Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Extra Credit
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Tom Bissell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Extraordinary Means
Robyn Schneider

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Extras (Uglies, #4)
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Extreme Measures
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

EXTREME OWNERSHIP
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Extreme Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Eye of a Hurricane
Ruthann Robson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Eye of Conscience
Milton Meltzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Eye of the Crow (The Boy Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Shane Peacock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Eye of the Storm: Eilida's Tragedy
Elle Klass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Eyes Like Stars (Théâtre Illuminata, #1)
Lisa Mantchev

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Eyes Like the Sea
Mór Jókai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Eyes of a Blue Dog
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

Eyes of Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Eyes Of The Emperor
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Eyes Turned Skyward (Flight & Glory, #2)
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eyes Wide Open
Raine Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Early Stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Carolyn Mackler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Earthquake Bird
Susanna Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The East End
Jason Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Easter Parade
Richard Yates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The East Indian
Brinda Charry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method
Allen Carr

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Eatonville Anthology
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1926

The Eaves of Heaven
Andrew X. Pham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Ecclesiazusae
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 392

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 Echo Wife
Sarah Gailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Eclogues
Virgil

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Paul Hawken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919