| Yarrow | Charles de Lint | Old ghosts lived behind Cat Midhir's eyes, memories that had no
home until they came to haunt her. | Buy | |
| Year of the Jackpot | Robert A. Heinlein | At first, Potiphar Breen did not notice the girl taking her
clothes off. | Buy | |
| Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes | Little Jane Ward sat at her father's left hand at the family breakfast table, her sleek, brown pigtailed head bent discreetly over her plate. She was washing down great mouthfuls of bacon and eggs with gulps of too hot cocoa. | Buy | |
| You Can't Go Home Again | Thomas Wolfe | It was the hour of twilight on a soft spring day toward the end of April in the year of Our Lord 1929, and George Webber leaned his elbows on the sill of his back window and looked out at what he could see of New York. | Buy | |
| You Only Live Twice | Ian Fleming | The geisha called "Trembling Leaf," on her knees beside James
Bond, leant forward from the waist and kissed him chastely on the
right cheek. | Buy | |
| Young Man of Manhattan | Katharine Brush | You have seen him, perhaps, where the bands are playing and the
pennants flying and the people cheering. He is always there;
diligent there. | Buy | |
| Youngblood Hawke | Herman Wouk | Have you ever known a famous man before he became famous? | Buy | |
| Youth | Joseph Conrad | This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and
sea interpenetrate, so to speak--the sea entering into the life
of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about
the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of breadwinning. | Buy | |
