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Becoming a Person of Influence
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Becoming a Writer
Dorothea Brande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

Becoming Ben Franklin
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Becoming Bulletproof
Evy Poumpouras

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | 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

Becoming Maria
Sonia Manzano

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

Becoming Mexican American
George J. Sanchez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Becoming Mortal
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Becoming Ms. Burton
Susan Burton, Cari Lynn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Becoming Muhammad Ali
James Patterson, Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Becoming Naomi Leon
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Becoming Nicole
Amy Ellis Nutt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Becoming Unbecoming
Una

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Bed of Roses
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Beebo Brinker
Ann Bannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Richard Fariña

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Beer and Circus
Murray A. Sperber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Beer in the Snooker Club (Twentieth Century Lives)
Waguih Ghali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Bee Season
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

Beetle Boy (The Battle of the Beetles #1)
M.G. Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Beezus and Ramona
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1955

Before
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Before Adam
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Before and After
Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Before Dorothy
Hazel Gaynor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Before Ever After
Samantha Sotto Yambao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Die
Jenny Downham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Before I Say Goodbye
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Before Jamaica Lane
Samantha Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Before She Disappeared
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before She Knew Him
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Before She Met Me
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Before Stonewall
Andrea Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Before the Fall
Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Before the Frost
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Before the Law
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1915

Before the Poison
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before They Are Hanged
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Before We Say Goodbye
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Before We Were Strangers
Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Before You Knew My Name
Jacqueline Bublitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before Your Memory Fades
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Be Frank With Me
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
Cate Lineberry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Beg, Borrow, or Steal
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Beginners
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1981

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Tom Vanderbilt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Behemoth
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1866

Behind Closed Doors
Miriam Halahmy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Seymour Reit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Behind the Bedroom Wall
Laura E. Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Batya Swift Yasgur (2002-10-02)
unknown author

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1804

Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Nancy Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Elizabeth Keckley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1868

Behold a Pale Horse
Milton William Cooper

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behold the Man
Michael Moorcock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Being And Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Being Born
Sheila Kitzinger

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
Kerry Kennedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Being Clem
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Being Henry David
Cal Armistead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Being Heumann
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Being Nikki
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Being There
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Beka Lamb
Zee Edgell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Bel-Ami
Douglas Parmée, Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Belfast Diary
John Conroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Belgarath the Sorcerer
Leigh Eddings, David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1995

Belgravia
Julian Fellowes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Believarexic
J.J. Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2015