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Baudolino
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Baumgartner's Bombay
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Bay of Sighs
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Bayou Farewell
Mike Tidwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Bayou Magic
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bayou Moon
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Beach Music
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Beach Read
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Beach Road
Peter de Jonge, James Patterson, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Beach Town
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Beacon 23
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2015

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Stephen Manes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Bear
Marian Engel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Bear Bottom (FunJungle, #7)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Beard in Mind
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beard Science
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Bearing the Cross
David J. Garrow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1986

Bears Discover Fire
Terry Bisson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1990

Bearskin
James A. Mclaughlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Bearstone
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Beartown
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Be a Sales Superstar: 21 Great Ways to Sell More, Faster, Easier in Tough Markets
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902

Beast in the Shadows
Edogawa Rampo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Beast In View
Margaret Millar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Beastly
Alex Flinn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Beast Master, Vol. 1
Kyousuke Motomi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Beasts of a Little Land
Juhea Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
Ruth Emmie Lang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beasts of No Nation
Uzodinma Iweala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin (film)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

Beat Not The Bones
Charlotte Jay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Beatrice And Virgil
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker
Shelley Johannes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown, #1)
Josh Bazell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Beaufort
Ron Leshem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Beautiful
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beautiful Bastard
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Beginning
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Beloved
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Beautiful Bitch
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Blue World (Beautiful Blue World #1)
Suzanne LaFleur

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Beautiful Bombshell
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Boy
David Sheff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Beautiful Broken Rules
Kimberly Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Broken Things (Beautiful Broken Things, #1)
Sara Barnard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Beautiful Burn
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Beautiful Chaos
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles, #3)
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Beautiful Country
J.R. Thornton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Beautiful Darkness
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Beautiful Days
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Beautiful Graves
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beautiful Joe: An AutoBiography of a Dog (Beautiful Joe, #1)
Marshall Saunders

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1893

Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Beautiful Mistake
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beautiful Oblivion
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Beautiful Player
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Redemption
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Beautiful Sacrifice
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Beautiful Secret
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Beautiful Stranger
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
William W. Warner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Beautiful Venom
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beauty
Bill Wallace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Beauty and Sadness
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Beauty and the Baller
Ilsa Madden-Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beauty and the Beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1740

Beauty and the Mustache
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Beauty from Pain
Georgia Cates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Beauty Is a Wound
Eka Kurniawan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Beauty Queens
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Beauty's Punishment
Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Beauty's Release
Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Beauvallet (Beauvallet Dynasty #2)
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Be Careful What You Wish For
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Because of Low
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Because of Miss Bridgerton
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Because of the Rabbit
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Because You'll Never Meet Me (Because You'll Never Meet Me, #1)
Leah Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Becket
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Becoming
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Becoming a Man
Paul Monette

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Becoming Dr. Q
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Mim Eichler Rivas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
Jinger Duggar Vuolo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
Chris LaTray

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Becoming Madam Secretary
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024