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Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Under the Never Sky
Veronica Rossi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Under the Ribs of Death
John Marlyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Under the Skin
Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Under the Skin: A Novel
James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Under the Sun
O Thiam Chin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Under the Whispering Door
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Underworld
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Undine
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

UnDivided
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
Adam Kay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Undone
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Unearthly
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

UnEnchanted
Chanda Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Une vie
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Unflattening
Nick Sousanis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Unforgivable Blackness
Geoffrey C. Ward

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Unfriended
Rachel Vail

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Ungifted
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

UnGuarded
Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Unhinged
A.G. Howard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Unhooking the Moon
Gregory Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Unique
Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
Barry M. Prizant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Unison Spark
Andy Marino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

United
Cory Booker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

United as One
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

United We Spy
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Universal Harvester
John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Unleashed
Cherrie Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Unleash the Night
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Unless
Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Unlikely Animals
Annie Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unlocked
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Unlucky 13
Maxine Paetro, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Un Lun Dun
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Unmissing
Minka Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Unnatural Exposure
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Deborah Feldman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Unplugged
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Unpolished Gem
Alice Pung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Unraveled
C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Unraveling Oliver
Liz Nugent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Unravel Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Unravel the Dusk
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Unreal! (Uncollected)
Paul Jennings

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1995

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Unsafe at Any Speed
Ralph Nader

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Unsaid
Neil Abramson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

UNSCRIPTED
James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Un secret
Philippe Grimbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Unseen Academicals
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Unseen (Will Trent, #7)
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

UnSelfie
Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Unsinkable
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

UnSouled
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Unspeakable Things
Jess Lourey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Unspoken
Sarah Rees Brennan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Unstoppable
Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Roy Richard Grinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Untamed
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Unteachable
Elliot Wake, Leah Raeder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Unterzakhn (Pantheon Graphic Library)
Leela Corman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Until Friday Night
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Until I Die
Amy Plum

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Until I Find You
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Until It Fades
K.A. Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Until Lilly
Aurora Rose Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014