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The Edge
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Edge of Always
J.A. Redmerski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1)
J.A. Redmerski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Edge of Normal (Reeve LeClaire, #1)
Carla Norton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Edge of Nowhere
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
Sara B. Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Educated Imagination (Midland Book)
Northrop Frye

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
Samantha Power

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
Joseph Auguste Merasty, David Carpenter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: Vietnam and Its Aftermath
John Musgrave

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Education of Cyrus
Xenophon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1907

The Education of Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

The Education of Margot Sánchez
Lilliam Rivera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Effect (Modern Plays)
Lucy Prebble

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2013

The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
Betty MacDonald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

The Egg and Other Stories
Andy Weir

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The Egg and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

The Ego and Its Own
Max Stirner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ego and the Id
Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Egyptologist
Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Eichmann Trial
Deborah Lipstadt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1852

The Eighth Sister
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Eight (The Eight, #1)
Katherine Neville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Einstein Prophecy
Robert Masello

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1968

The Electric State (Tales from the Loop, #3)
Simon Stålenhag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Elementals
Michael McDowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim

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

The Elementary Particles
Frank Wynne, Michel Houellebecq

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Elements of Journalism
Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Elements of Moral Philosophy
James Rachels, Stuart Rachels

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

The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1918

The Elephant In The Room
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Elephant Keeper
Christopher Nicholson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Elephant's Child: And Other Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Elephant Whisperer
Lawrence Anthony

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Eleventh Commandment
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Eleventh Plague
Jeff Hirsch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Elf Queen of Shannara
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Elfstones of Shannara
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Elite
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Embassy of Cambodia
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Embedding
Ian Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Ember Blade (The Darkwater Legacy, #1)
Chris Wooding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Emerald Atlas (The Books of Beginning, #1)
John Stephens

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Emerald City of Oz (Oz, #6)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Emerald Mile
Kevin Fedarko

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Emerald Tablet Of Hermes
Hermes Trismegistus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1)
Vilhelm Moberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
Ryszard Kapuściński

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

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 of Any Place
Tim Wynne-Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Emperor of Evening Stars
Laura Thalassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Emperor of Ice Cream
Brian Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Emperor's Blades
Brian Staveley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Emperor's Code
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Emperor's Tomb
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Emperor's Tomb (Von Trotta Family, #2)
Joseph Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
S.A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Empire of Necessity
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Employees
Olga Ravn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Empty Chair
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Empty Grave
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Empty Schoolhouse
Natalie Savage Carlson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Empty Throne
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The E-myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Enchanted
Rene Denfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Enchanted Barn
Grace Livingston Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Enchanted Castle
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994