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The Bellamy Trial
Frances Noyes Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Bell Bandit
Jacqueline Davies

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Belle of Amherst
William Luce

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Belles
Dhonielle Clayton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Bell in the Lake (Hekne, #1)
Lars Mytting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Bellmaker
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1994

The Bells
Richard Harvell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Rod Dreher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Alison Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Berlin Blues
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2008

The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Berlin Letters
Katherine Reay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Berlin Wall
Frederick Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best
Mark Fleming-Williams

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

The Best American Short Stories 2013
Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

The Best And The Brightest
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Best at It
Maulik Pancholy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Kristin Levine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Best Cook in the World
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Best Halloween Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

The Best Is yet to Come
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Best Laid Plans
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Best Little Boy in the World: The 25th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Memoir
John Reid, Andrew Tobias

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

The Best Man
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best of All Possible Worlds
Karen Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Best of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

The Best of Friends
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Best of Us
Joyce Maynard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Best School Year Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
Ari Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best Thing
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Best Worst Thing
Lauren Okie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bet
Rachel Van Dyken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Rosemary Sullivan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Betrayed (The Betrothed, #2)
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
Alessandro Manzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Better Sister
Alafair Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The BFG
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

The Bible: A Biography
King James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bible Says So
Dan Mcclellan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1976

The Bicycle Diaries
David Kroodsma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Big Bad Wolf
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Big Crunch
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Big Dark
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Big Field
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Big Fix (Moses Wine, #1)
Roger L. Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Big Game
Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Big Green Tent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Gay Hendricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Big Lie: A True Story
Isabella Leitner, Irving A. Leitner, Judy Pedersen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
Dinesh D'Souza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Big Money
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Big Necessity
Rose George

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Big Sea
Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1940

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Big Thirst
Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Big Time
Fritz Leiber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan M. Katz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Mark Obmascik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Billionaire's Obsession: Simon
J.S. Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Benjamin Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Billionaire’s Wake-up-call Girl
Annika Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
Akhil Reed Amar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Binding
Bridget Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bingo Palace
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Biographer's Tale
A.S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Biography of a Grizzly
Ernest Thompson Seton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1899

The Biography of Florence Nightingale
Lytton Strachey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1918

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
Bruce H. Lipton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bird and the Blade
Megan Bannen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Bird and the Sword
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Bird Artist
Howard Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Birds' Christmas Carol
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1886