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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 (The Black Witch Chronicles, #1)
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 | 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

The Blues I'm Playing
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Blue Umbrella
Mike Mason

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
Dan Buettner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Boardwalk Bookshop
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Boat
Nam Le

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

The Boat of a Million Years
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Boat People
Sharon Bala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
William Hope Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Farley Mowat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport (Bobbsey Twins, #1)
Laura Lee Hope

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1904

The Bodhisattva
Jun Ishikawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Body
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1982

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Body Artist
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body - Cameron Diaz
Cameron Díaz

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Body Farm
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Body Finder
Kimberly Derting

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Bodyguard
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries, 3)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Body in the Woods: A Point Last Seen Mystery
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Body Papers
Grace Talusan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Body Project
Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Body Reader
Anne Frasier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Body Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1884

The Boggart
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
P.V. Glob, Peter Vilhelm Glob

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

The Boleyn Inheritance
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
Frances Osborne

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
Sujata Massey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1525

The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
Jessica Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Bond That Burns
Briar Boleyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bone Bed
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Bone Cage
Angie Abdou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bone Church
Victoria Dougherty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bone Garden
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bone Houses
Emily Lloyd-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

The Bonehunters
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bone Maker
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021