Here you’ll find 62 Books that start with E, organized from “Earth Abides” to “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. This selection spans classics, modern fiction, and notable prize winners, useful for readers, librarians, and content creators.
Books that start with E are titles whose English names begin with the letter E. They include early classics like “Earth Abides” and modern hits like “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”.
Below you’ll find the table with Title, Author, Year, and Genre.
Title: The book’s name helps you identify each work quickly and match it with editions or library records.
Author: The creator’s name shows you the primary author and helps distinguish books with similar titles.
Year: The original publication year gives context for the book’s era and helps you locate editions.
Genre: The listed genre shows the book’s main category, helping you find similar titles or plan reading lists.
Books that start with E
| Title | Author(s) | First publication year | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma | Austen, Jane | 1815 | novel |
| East of Eden | Steinbeck, John | 1952 | novel |
| Ender’s Game | Card, Orson Scott | 1985 | science fiction |
| Endurance | Lansing, Alfred | 1959 | history |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves | Truss, Lynne | 2003 | language |
| Eat Pray Love | Gilbert, Elizabeth | 2006 | memoir |
| Eloise | Thompson, Kay | 1955 | children’s |
| Evicted | Desmond, Matthew | 2016 | non-fiction |
| Elmer Gantry | Lewis, Sinclair | 1927 | novel |
| Erewhon | Butler, Samuel | 1872 | novel |
| Ethan Frome | Wharton, Edith | 1911 | novel |
| Empire Falls | Russo, Richard | 2001 | novel |
| Enduring Love | McEwan, Ian | 1997 | novel |
| Equal Rites | Pratchett, Terry | 1987 | fantasy |
| Elantris | Sanderson, Brandon | 2005 | fantasy |
| Everything Is Illuminated | Foer, Jonathan Safran | 2002 | novel |
| Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned | Tower, Wells | 2014 | short fiction |
| Enemy Mine | Longyear, Barry B. | 1979 | science fiction |
| Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles | 1841 | history |
| Educated | Westover, Tara | 2018 | memoir |
| Euphoria | King, Lily | 2014 | novel |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Foer, Jonathan Safran | 2005 | novel |
| Endymion | Simmons, Dan | 1996 | science fiction |
| Eldest | Paolini, Christopher | 2005 | fantasy |
| Eon | Bear, Greg | 1985 | science fiction |
| Evangeline | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 1847 | poetry |
| Eragon | Paolini, Christopher | 2002 | fantasy |
| Everything I Never Told You | Ng, Celeste | 2014 | novel |
| Everyman | Roth, Philip | 2006 | novel |
| Evil Angels | Bryson, John | 1985 | non-fiction |
| Eclipse | Meyer, Stephenie | 2007 | YA |
| Empire | Ferguson, Niall | 2003 | history |
| Empire of the Sun | Ballard, J. G. | 1984 | novel |
| Ender’s Shadow | Card, Orson Scott | 1999 | science fiction |
| Eva Luna | Allende, Isabel | 1987 | novel |
| Eastern Approaches | Maclean, Fitzroy | 1949 | memoir |
| Elmet | Mozley, Fiona | 2017 | novel |
| Embers | Márai, Sándor | 1942 | novel |
| Endless Night | Christie, Agatha | 1967 | mystery |
| End of Alice | Homes, A. M. | 1996 | novel |
| Empire of Pain | Keefe, Patrick Radden | 2021 | non-fiction |
| Exile and the Kingdom | Camus, Albert | 1957 | short fiction |
| Exodus | Uris, Leon | 1958 | novel |
| Eugene Onegin | Pushkin, Alexander | 1833 | poetry |
| Eureka | Poe, Edgar Allan | 1848 | non-fiction |
| Eat That Frog! | Tracy, Brian | 2001 | self-help |
| Elements of Style | Strunk, William; White, E. B. | 1918 | reference |
| Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective | Sobol, Donald J. | 1963 | children’s |
| Earth Abides | Stewart, George R. | 1949 | science fiction |
| Exit West | Hamid, Mohsin | 2017 | novel |
| Exhalation | Chiang, Ted | 2019 | short fiction |
| Entangled Life | Sheldrake, Merlin | 2020 | non-fiction |
| Eating Animals | Foer, Jonathan Safran | 2009 | non-fiction |
| Enchantment | Card, Orson Scott | 1999 | fantasy |
| Emperor of All Maladies | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | 2010 | non-fiction |
| Eureka Street | Wilson, Robert McLiam | 1996 | novel |
| Evelina | Burney, Fanny | 1778 | novel |
| Empty Mansions | Dedman, Bill; Newell, Paul Clark Jr. | 2013 | non-fiction |
| Endless Forms Most Beautiful | Carroll, Sean B. | 2005 | non-fiction |
| Empire of Illusion | Hedges, Chris | 2011 | non-fiction |
| Everything Good Will Come | Atta, Sefi | 2005 | novel |
| Eat to Beat Disease | Li, William W. | 2019 | non-fiction |
Descriptions
Emma
A witty social comedy about matchmaking and manners, centered on a clever but self-deceived heroine navigating love and society in Regency England.
East of Eden
A multigenerational family saga set in California’s Salinas Valley exploring choice, sin, and the struggle for identity.
Ender’s Game
A young tactical genius is trained in battle school to defend humanity against alien invaders; a tense, character-driven military SF classic.
Endurance
A gripping account of Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the crew’s extraordinary survival after their ship was trapped and crushed by ice.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
A witty, popular guide to punctuation that mixes humor with real grammatical lessons and helped spark renewed interest in usage debates.
Eat Pray Love
A bestselling memoir about a woman’s year-long journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia seeking pleasure, spirituality, and balance after divorce.
Eloise
A playful, illustration-rich picture book following the mischievous six-year-old Eloise and her adventures in New York City’s Plaza Hotel.
Evicted
An award-winning ethnographic study of poverty and housing in America, following families and landlords to expose eviction’s social costs.
Elmer Gantry
A satirical novel skewering religious hypocrisy through the rise and fall of a charismatic, opportunistic evangelist in early 20th-century America.
Erewhon
A satirical utopia that inverts Victorian norms to critique religion, technology, and social institutions; a provocative, oddly comic speculative work.
Ethan Frome
A bleak, tightly plotted novella about thwarted love and crushing isolation in a New England winter town.
Empire Falls
A compassionate, character-rich novel about a small New England town and a man’s struggle with family duty, memory, and community change.
Enduring Love
A suspenseful, psychologically acute exploration of obsession and the ethics of relationships triggered by a public trauma.
Equal Rites
The first Discworld novel to focus on gender and magic; a young girl challenges a male-dominated wizarding tradition with humor and heart.
Elantris
A debut epic fantasy about a fallen city, political intrigue, and a mysterious affliction that strips inhabitants of divinity and hope.
Everything Is Illuminated
A metafictional debut weaving a young man’s search for ancestry through memory, myth, and darkly comic storytelling across time and place.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
A celebrated short-story collection mixing dark humor and sharp observation, tracking outsiders and modern American anxieties.
Enemy Mine
A novella about an enemy pilot and human soldier stranded together who must overcome hatred to survive, exploring empathy and reconciliation.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
A pioneering survey of economic bubbles, witch hunts, and mass follies; a classic examination of collective psychology and popular superstition.
Educated
A powerful personal story about escaping a survivalist upbringing through education, confronting family, and redefining identity.
Euphoria
A compact, energetic novel about art, ambition, and the messy consequences of desire set among expatriates in the 1930s and 1940s.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
A poignant, stylistically inventive novel following a boy’s quest across New York City after his father’s death on 9/11.
Endymion
The second major novel in Simmons’s Hyperion Cantos, mixing space opera, philosophy, and a quest narrative in a richly constructed far-future universe.
Eldest
The second book in the Inheritance Cycle continues an epic quest with dragons, political intrigue, and a young hero’s growing powers.
Eon
A hard-SF novel about a mysterious asteroid containing infinite chambers and strange physics that challenge humanity’s future.
Evangeline
A long narrative poem about love, exile, and the Acadian expulsion; one of Longfellow’s most famous and emotionally resonant works.
Eragon
A teenage farm boy discovers a dragon egg and is thrust into a world of magic, destiny, and rebellion against a tyrant.
Everything I Never Told You
A sensitive domestic drama about a family in 1970s Ohio coping with loss, hidden pressures, and the consequences of silence.
Everyman
A meditation on mortality and midlife that follows a nameless protagonist through reflections on aging, illness, and regret.
Evil Angels
A detailed investigation of a notorious Australian murder trial that inspired international debate and the film A Cry in the Dark.
Eclipse
The third Twilight novel blends romance and supernatural tension as a teenage heroine faces choices between love, loyalty, and danger.
Empire
A sweeping history of the British Empire’s rise and global impact, arguing for its complex role in shaping the modern world.
Empire of the Sun
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel about a British boy’s survival in a Shanghai internment camp during World War II.
Ender’s Shadow
A parallel novel to Ender’s Game that retells the Battle School story from Bean’s perspective, deepening the original’s tactical and moral complexity.
Eva Luna
A lyrical, episodic novel narrated by a storyteller whose life blends love, exile, and political upheaval in Latin America.
Eastern Approaches
A wartime memoir and travelogue recounting missions behind enemy lines and adventures across Eastern Europe and Asia in the mid-20th century.
Elmet
A modern, lyrical debut about family, land, and the fraught bonds between a father and his children in northern England.
Embers
A spare, haunting Hungarian novel about two aging friends confronting memory, betrayal, and honor in a single evening.
Endless Night
A darker, psychological Christie novel with a Gothic atmosphere, romance, and an unexpected twist typical of her late work.
End of Alice
A controversial, intense exploration of obsession and culpability told through the correspondence of a male prisoner and a female reader.
Empire of Pain
A deeply reported history of the Sackler family and the opioid crisis, mixing investigative journalism with public-health analysis.
Exile and the Kingdom
A collection of six short works exploring exile, alienation, and moral choice, capturing Camus’s existential sensibilities.
Exodus
A sweeping historical novel that popularized the story of Israel’s founding, blending adventure, politics, and large-cast storytelling.
Eugene Onegin
A masterful verse novel and Russian classic mixing romance, satire, and lyrical portraits of society and unrequited love.
Eureka
A long prose meditation by Poe mixing cosmology, metaphysics, and literary flourish — part essay, part grand speculation.
Eat That Frog!
A concise productivity guide offering practical strategies to prioritize tasks and overcome procrastination with energetic, actionable advice.
Elements of Style
A concise, influential handbook on clear writing and grammar that has guided generations of writers and editors.
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
A beloved juvenile mystery series introducing a clever boy detective whose short cases invite readers to solve puzzles along with him.
Earth Abides
A post-apocalyptic novel following a survivor assessing civilization’s decline and the slow, natural reshaping of human life.
Exit West
A lyrical fable about migration, love, and borders where mysterious doors transport refugees to new cities across the globe.
Exhalation
A celebrated collection of speculative short stories exploring consciousness, free will, and technology with emotional clarity and philosophical rigor.
Entangled Life
A lively, surprising exploration of fungi and their ecological roles, revealing how these organisms shape life and human culture.
Eating Animals
A thoughtful, personal investigation into industrial farming, ethics, and food choices that blends reportage with moral reflection.
Enchantment
A modern novel that blends Slavic myth and fairy-tale romance with time-crossed lovers and a scholar’s quest to break a curse.
Emperor of All Maladies
A “biography” of cancer that traces medical, scientific, and human histories to illuminate the disease’s many dimensions and treatments.
Eureka Street
A spirited, darkly comic novel set in Belfast that balances friendship, politics, and love during a turbulent period.
Evelina
A lively epistolary novel of manners following a young woman’s social education and encounters with eighteenth-century English society.
Empty Mansions
A true-crime and social-history investigation into heiress Huguette Clark’s reclusive life and the vast fortune that surrounded her.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
An accessible introduction to evo-devo explaining how developmental genes shape animal form and the modern understanding of evolution.
Empire of Illusion
A critique of American cultural and political decline arguing that celebrity, entertainment, and corporate power distract from civic reality.
Everything Good Will Come
A coming-of-age novel set in Nigeria following a woman navigating friendship, politics, and personal growth amid social change.
Eat to Beat Disease
A science-based nutrition guide explaining how certain foods and eating patterns can support the immune system and reduce disease risk.