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The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
Rhonda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Enchantress
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Enchantress Of Florence
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Enchantress Returns
Chris Colfer, Brandon Dorman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
Isabel Greenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The End
Salvatore Scibona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Ender Series
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

The Endless Steppe
Esther Hautzig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1968

The End of All Things
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The End of Days
Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of Detroit
Micheline Maynard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The End of Eddy
Édouard Louis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The End of Everything
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Katie Mack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The End of Her
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The End of Nature
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The End of October
Lawrence Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The End of San Francisco
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The End Of The Affair
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The End of the Ocean (Climate Quartet, #2)
Maja Lunde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The End of the Pier
Martha Grimes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The End of the Point
Elizabeth Graver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The End of the Wasp Season (Alex Morrow, #2)
Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The End of the Whole Mess
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The End of White Christian America
Robert P. Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The End We Start From
Megan Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Enemy
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Enemy (The Enemy, #1)
Charlie Higson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Engagements (Vintage Contemporaries)
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The English Girl
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The English Mail Coach And Joan Of Arc

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The English Spy
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The English Teacher
Yiftach Reicher Atir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Enlightenment
Norman Hampson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Shokoofeh Azar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Enormous Room
E.E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Epic of Gilgamesh
N.K. Sandars

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Erasers
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Ersatz Elevator
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Escape Artist (Escape Artist #1)
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Escape (John Puller, #3)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Escape Room
Megan Goldin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Essence of Christianity
Ludwig Feuerbach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1841

The Essence of Religion (Great Books in Philosophy)
Ludwig Feuerbach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Essential Art Of War
Sun Tzu

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 401

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Essential Epicurus
Epicurus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Essential Plotinus (Hackett Classics)
Plotinus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Essential Rumi
Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

The Eternal Ones (Eternal Ones, #1)
Kirsten Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Eternity Cure
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Eudemian Ethics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)
Anthony Trollope, Stephen Gill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Evening Chorus
Helen Humphreys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ever King
L. J. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Everlasting Man
G. K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

The Everything Store
Brad Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Evil Wizard Smallbone
Delia Sherman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Evolutionary Void
Peter F. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Evolution of Beauty
Richard O. Prum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Benjamin Hale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
Stephen Grosz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Executioner
Chris Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010