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Freida McFadden is the pen name of Sara Cohen, an American author born on May 1, 1980, who writes psychological thrillers. The catalogue lists 35 books from The Devil Wears Scrubs (2013) through The Witch (2026), with series including Housemaid, Dr. Jane McGill and Pick Your Poison Adventure. The Housemaid (2022) became an international bestseller, and a 2025 feature film adaptation stars Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney. Subjects attached to the books range from medical and humor to crime and suspense. McFadden is still publishing.

Freya Barker has 62 books in the catalogue, from Slim To None (2014) to Cold Silence (2026). Hundred To One (2014), Against Me (2015), Clean Lines (2015), From Dust (2015), Upper Hand (2015), Cruel Water (2016) and Still Air (2016) are among the early titles. Barker series include Cedar Tree, Arrow's Edge MC, Portland, ME, Rock Point, PASS, High Mountain Trackers, Snapshot, GEM and On Call.

Freya North, born in 1967, is a British writer active since 1996 and one of the precursors of chick lit, with strong women at the centre of the novels. 23 catalogued books run from Sally (1996) to Spring at Flora's House (2026), and the early run names each book for its heroine: Chloe (1997), Polly (1998), Cat (1999), Fen (2001) and Pip (2003). Families, sisters, friendship and love carry the subjects, and North remains actively publishing.

Freya Sampson has published five novels since 2021. The first, The Last Chance Library (2021), is also catalogued as The Last Library, and The Lost Ticket (2022) carries the alternate title The Girl on the 88 Bus. Nosy Neighbors (2024) and The Busybody Book Club (2025) follow, and Most Ardently Yours arrives in 2026. Sampson's work is filed under English literature.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 to 1900) was a German philosopher. The catalogue lists 26 works, opening with The Birth of Tragedy (1871) and including Human, All Too Human, Daybreak (1881), The Gay Science (1882) and Untimely Meditations. Aesthetics, ethics, Greek tragedy, Christianity, power and nihilism are the subjects the catalogue attaches. A Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche series is also listed.

Fritz Leiber

88 books• 4 series

Fritz Leiber was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction, and a Hugo Award winner. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is the signature creation, a fantasy adventure pairing with a graphic novel line of its own. Ninety-four titles are catalogued from 1943 to 2024, opening with Conjure Wife (1943) and Gather, Darkness! (1943), and taking in the Change War stories and several short fiction collections.

Frost Kay writes young adult fantasy. The Aermian Feuds opens the catalogue with Rebel's Blade and Crown's Shield in 2017 and runs on through Enemy's Queen and King's Warrior (2018); the Twisted Kingdoms, Mixologists and Pirates, the Dominion of Ash, the Dragon Isle Wars, Aliens and Alchemists and the Banished Queen Saga follow. Forty books are catalogued, reaching Scorched Wings (2026).

Fyodor Dostoevsky

38 books• 5 series

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's fiction engages philosophical and religious themes within the political, social and spiritual conditions of 19th-century Russia. The most acclaimed of the novels are The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Crime and Punishment (1866), Demons (1872), The Idiot (1869) and The Adolescent (1875). This catalogue lists 38 titles dated from Poor Folk and Other Stories (1845) to a 2022 edition of A Bad Business, among them The Double (1846), White Nights (1848), Netochka Nezvanova (1849) and The House of the Dead (1862). Translations into English and Russian fiction lead the catalogue subjects.