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Blue Dahlia
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blue Exorcist, Vol. 1
John Werry, Kazue Kato

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Blueeyedboy (Malbry, #3)
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blue-Eyed Devil
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Bluefish
Pat Schmatz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival
Christopher Lukas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Blue Gold (NUMA Files, #2)
Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Blue Hole Back Home
Joy Jordan-Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Blue Light
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Blue Lightning
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Blue Monday
Nicci French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Blue Moon
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Blue Moon Bay
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
Frederik Peeters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Blue Rage, Black Redemption
Stanley Tookie Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Blues for an Alabama Sky
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Blues for Mister Charlie
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Blue Smoke
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Amiri Baraka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

Blue Willow
Doris Gates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1940

Bluish
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Blurred Lines
Lauren Layne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Bob
Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bobos in Paradise
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Boccaccio
Thomas G. Bergin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1963

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quiñonez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Body Double
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Body in Question
Jonathan Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Body of Evidence
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (Reprint Series in Social Sciences)

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Body Work (V.I. Warshawski, #14)
Sara Paretsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Boesman and Lena
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Boleyn Traitor
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bolívar: American Liberator
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Bombingham
Anthony Grooms

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Bondage
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Bonded by Thorns
Elizabeth Helen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bonded in Death (In Death, #60)
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bonds of Hercules
Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bone
Jeff Smith

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1991

Bone Black
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Bonechiller
Graham McNamee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Bone Crier's Moon
Kathryn Purdie

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Bone Dance
Emma Bull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Bone Gap
Laura Ruby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bones Are Forever
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bones Don't Lie
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Boneshaker
Cherie Priest

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17)
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bones of the Hills
Conn Iggulden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Bones to Ashes
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Bone: Tall Tales
Jeff Smith, Thomas E. Sniegoski

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2010

Bonfire
Krysten Ritter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Booked
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
John Dunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Bookends
Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Book Love
Debbie Tung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Book Lovers
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book of Ages
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Book of Common Prayer
Thomas Cranmer

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1549

Book of Hosea (Bible, #28)
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 721

Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

Book of Night
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book of Revelation
John the Apostle

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 90

Book of Shadows
Cate Tiernan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Book of the Dead
Greig Beck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Book Scavenger
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Books for Living
Will Schwalbe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Bookshops & Bonedust
Travis Baldree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Books of Blood: Volume VI (Books of Blood, #6)
Clive Barker

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

Bookstore
Lynne Tillman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Boomsday
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Boomtown Blues
Andrew Gulliford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Boot Camp
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Booth
Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #1)
Margaret Maron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Boquitas pintadas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Border Crossing
Caitlin Maling

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Borderlands La Frontera
Gloria E. Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Border Songs
Jim Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009