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Below the Root

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

Below Zero (Joe Pickett, #9)
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Belzhar
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Be Mine
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Benang: From the Heart
Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bendigo Shafter
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Beneath a Marble Sky
John Shors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Beneath My Mother's Feet
Amjed Qamar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Beneath Our Feet
R. H. Vernon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Maaza Mengiste

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Beneath the Wheel
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Beneath This Man
Jodi Ellen Malpas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Benediction
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Rajiv Joseph

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Ben, In the World
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1855

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Ben Jonson: A Life
Ian Donaldson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Be Not Far from Me
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Bento Box in the Heartland
Linda Furiya

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1000

Beowulf for Cretins: A Love Story
Ann Mcman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Be Prepared
Vera Brosgol

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Be Recorder
Carmen Giménez Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Beren and Lúthien

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Bergdorf Blondes
Plum Sykes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Berlin Childhood around 1900
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
William L. Shirer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
Len Deighton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Berserk, Vol. 1
Kentaro Miura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Bertram Cope's Year
Henry Blake Fuller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Best Friends
Shannon Hale, Illustr. LeUyen Pham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Best Friends Forever
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Best Kept Secret
Amy Hatvany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Best Nerds Forever
Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Best of Friends
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
Stephen Dobyns

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Bet Me
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Betrayal
Houston A. Baker Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Betrayal in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Betrayal in the City
Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Betrayals
Lili St. Crow, Lilith Saintcrow

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Betrayed: A House of Night Novel
P. C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Manuel Puig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Betsey Brown
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Betsy-Tacy
Lois Lenski, Maud Hart Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1940

Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)
Maud Hart Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1941

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Christian Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Better Off Dead
Lee Child, Andrew Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Better Off Friends
Elizabeth Eulberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Gretchen Rubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Betting on You
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Betty
Tiffany McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bettyville
George Hodgman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Marion A. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Between Friends
Amos Oz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

Between Love and Loathing
Shain Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Between Riverside And Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Between Sinners and Saints
Marie Sexton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Between Sisters
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Between Sky & Sea
Herz Bergner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Between The Acts
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Between the Assassinations
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Marcus Rediker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Between the Lines
Tammara Webber

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Between Two Shores
Jocelyn Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Between Us
Clare Atkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Beverly, Right Here
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Beware of the Dog
Brian Moore (Pitbull)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

Beware the Wild (Beware the Wild, #1)
Natalie C. Parker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Bewilderment
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Bewitched
Laura Thalassa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Be With
Forrest Gander

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Be with Me
Jennifer L. Armentrout, J. Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Beyond a Boundary

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Beyond Evil: Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley
Nathan Yates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Adam Rothman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Beyond God the Father
Mary Daly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Beyond Good And Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1886

Beyond Katrina
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Beyond Lies The Wub

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951