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The Bird's Nest
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Birth House
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Birth of Britain (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #1)
Winston S. Churchill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Lynn Hudson Parsons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
Saifedean Ammous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu Kamara

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Bitter Kingdom
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5)
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bitter Season
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Bitter Side of Sweet
Tara Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1888

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
Paul Gilroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Black Bird Oracle
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Black Book
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Black Box
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black Cathedral
Marcial Gala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black Cat (Richard Jury, #22)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Black Cauldron
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1965

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Black Circle
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
Glen Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Black Count
Tom Reiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Black Death
Philip Ziegler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History
Ole Jørgen Benedictow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Black Death: A Personal History
John Hatcher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
John Aberth

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

The Black Echo
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Frederick Joseph

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Black God's Drums
P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Black Hand
Stephan Talty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Black Hand (Barker & Llewelyn, #5)
Will Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Blackhouse
Peter May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Black Ice
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Black Island (Tintin #7)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

The Black Kids
Christina Hammonds Reed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Black Pearl
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Black Spider
Jeremias Gotthelf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

The Black Stallion
Walter Farley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

The Black Stallion Returns (The Black Stallion, #2)
Walter Farley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1945

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate, #1)
Neon Yang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blacktongue Thief
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Black Tulip
Robin Buss, Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Black Widow
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Black Witch
Laurie Forest

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)
Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Blessing
Nancy Mitford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Blessing Way
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Blind
A.F. Brady

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Blinding Knife
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Blind Man
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

The Blindness of the Heart
Julia Franck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blind Watchmaker: Why The Evidence Of Evolution Reveals A Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Block (The Loop Trilogy, #2)
Ben Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Blonde
Duane Swierczynski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blonde Identity
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Blondes
Emily Schultz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Blood Knot
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Bloodless Boy (Hunt & Hooke, #1)
Robert J. Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Blood Mirror
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Blood of the Lamb
Peter De Vries

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage
Florence Marryat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

The Blood Traitor
Lynette Noni

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
Brenda Woods

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Blue Between Sky and Water
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blue Bistro
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Blue Bottle Club
Penelope J. Stokes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Blue Cat of Castle Town
Catherine Cate Coblentz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery (Father Brown)
G.K. Chesterton, James Arthur

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1910

The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Blue Fox
Sjón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)
Charles de Lint

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Blue Helmet
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Blue Lagoon
Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1908