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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1808

The Broken Kingdoms
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Broken Shore (Broken Shore #1)
Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Miguel León-Portilla

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Broken Sword
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Broken Vows
Catharina Maura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Broken Window
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Broken Wings
Kahlil Gibran, Anthony Rizcallah Ferris

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

The Bromance Book Club
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Brooklyn Nine
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Brotherhood of the Grape
John Fante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Brotherhood of the Rose (Mortalis, #1)
David Morrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Brothers Hawthorne
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Brothers K
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Brothers Lionheart
Jill Morgan, Ilon Wikland, Astrid Lindgren

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1973

The Brothers Menaechmus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

The Bruised Reed
Richard Sibbes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1630

The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Bubble Boy
Stewart Foster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Buccaneers
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
Kiera Van Gelder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
Gerald M. Stern

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Buffalo Soldier
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Builders
Daniel Polansky

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
Ryder Carroll

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

The Bungalow Mystery
P.M. Carlson, Carolyn Keene, Russell H. Tandy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1930

The Bunker Diary
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Burden of Proof
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town
Steven Ozment

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Burglar
David Goodis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Buried Mirror
Carlos Fuentes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Burning Bridge
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Burning Girl
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Burning Girls
C.J. Tudor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Burning Land
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Burning Library
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Burning Room
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Burning Sky
Sherry Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Burning White
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme, #9)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Bushwhacked Piano
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Butcher
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Butcher and the Wren
Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Butcher Boy
Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Butchers' Blessing
Ruth Gilligan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Butcher's Boy (Butcher's Boy, #1)
Thomas Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Butcher's Masquerade
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
Helmut Walser Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Butler Did It
Kasey Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, #1)
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Butterfly Effect
Rachel Mans McKenny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Butterfly Lion
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Butterfly Mosque
G. Willow Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Button War
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018