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A Bad Day for Sunshine
Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Bag of Marbles
Joseph Joffo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

A Bear Called Paddington: An Omnibus Including: A Bear Called Paddington, More About Paddington, Paddington Helps Out, Paddington at Large, Paddington Marches On
Michael Bond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)
Charles Finch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Hank Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
Gill Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Bell for Adano
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

A Bend In The River
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Bend in the Road
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son
Michael Ian Black

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York
Liana Finck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Bite to Remember
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Bitter Feast (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #18)
Deborah Crombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

A Blade So Black (The Nightmare-Verse #1)
L.L. McKinney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Blossom of Bright Light (Jimmy Vega Mystery, #2)
Suzanne Chazin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Bold Stroke for a Wife
Susanna Centlivre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

A Bollywood Affair (Bollywood, #1)
Sonali Dev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Bolt from the Blue (Worth the Wait #2)
Maggie Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Bone from a Dry Sea
Peter Dickinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

A Bone to Pick
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Victor Harris, Miyamoto Musashi, Lew Hartman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1645

A Book of Silence
Sara Maitland

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey
Leila Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Valérie Zenatti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

A Boy and His Dog
Harlan Ellison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1969

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
C.A. Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Boy and His Dog & "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1987

A Boy at War
Harry Mazer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

A Boy Called Bat
Elana K. Arnold, Illustr. Charles Santoso

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

A Boy Called Christmas (Christmas, #1)
Chris Mould, Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

A Boy Called Hope
Lara Williamson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

A Break with Charity
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Bridge Across the Ocean
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Bridge Too Far
Cornelius Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Andrew H. Knoll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

A Brief History of Montmaray
Michelle Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

A Brief History Of Neoliberalism
David Harvey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Brief History of Time
S. W. Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

A Brief History Of Time
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

A Broken Blade (The Halfling Saga, #1)
Melissa Blair

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Brother's Journey
Richard B. Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Brush with Love
Mazey Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Burning
Megha Majumdar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Burnt-Out Case

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Babe: The Gallant Pig
Dick King-Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Baby
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Baby Be-Bop (Weetzie Bat, #5)
Francesca Lia Block

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Baby Island
Carol Ryrie Brink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1937

Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
James S.A. Corey, James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Babymouse for President (Babymouse #16)
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Baby Party
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Baby Proof
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Babysitter
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Baby Teeth
Zoje Stage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Babyville
Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Backlash
Susan Faludi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Back of Beyond (Highway Quartet, #1)
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Back Spin
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Backstage Pass
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Backstage Pass (Sinners on Tour, #1)
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Back to the Garden
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Back When We Were Grownups
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Bad Blood
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Bad Blood (Being Human, #3)
James Goss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bad Boy: A Memoir
Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Ann Arnett Ferguson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Bad Cree
Jessica Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Badenheim 1939
Aharon Appelfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Bad for You
Heidi Lichtblau, Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Bad Girl
Julie Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bad Girl Reputation
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Bad Girls
Kit Maude, Camila Sosa Villada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Bad Girls Don't Die
Katie Alender

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies
Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
David Wootton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Bad Mermaids: On the Rocks (Bad Mermaids, #2)
Sibéal Pounder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Bad Monkeys
Matt Ruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Bad Moon Rising
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Bad Mormon
Heather Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Bad Rep
A. Meredith Walters

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Bad Romeo
Leisa Rayven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bad Science
Ben Goldacre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008