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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

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 Her Reach
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beyond Katrina
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Beyond Lies The Wub

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond Reach
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
Michael R. Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Beyond That, the Sea
Laura Spence-Ash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, #2)
Frederik Pohl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Beyond the Burning Time
Kathryn Lasky

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Beyond the Chocolate War
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

Beyond the Gender Binary
Alok Vaid-Menon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Beyond the Grave
Jude Watson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Beyond the Highland Mist
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Wallace Stegner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

Beyond the Kingdoms (The Land of Stories, #4)
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Beyond the Moonlit Sea
Julianne MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beyond the Pale
Elana Dykewomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Beyond the Shadows
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Beyond This Horizon
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Be Your Future Self Now
Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Bhagavad Gita
Swami Prabhavananda, Transl. Christopher Isherwood

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972

Bianca, Or, The Young Spanish Maiden
Toru Dutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Bible (New Testament): English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Bible: Old Testament: English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Bicycle Thieves
Victoria De Sica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Biedermann und die Brandstifter
Max Frisch

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Simon Singh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Big Bertha Stories
Bobbie Ann Mason

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

Big Boned
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Big Brother
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Game
Dan Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bigger than a Bread Box
Laurel Snyder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth
Joe Conason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Big Mushy Happy Lump
Sarah Andersen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Big Nate: In the Zone
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Nate Makes the Grade (Volume 4)
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Big Nate on a Roll
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Big Nate Strikes Again
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
Shawn Achor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Big Rock
Lauren Blakely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Big Shot
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Big Sky
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Big Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Sur
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Big Swiss
Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Big Tree
Mary Buff, Conrad Buff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1946

Big Trouble
Dave Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Billenium
J.G. Ballard

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1962

Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Billion Dollar Loser
Reeves Wiedeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Bradley Hope, Tom Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bill the Vampire (The Tome of Bill, #1)
Rick Gualtieri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Billy and the Minpins
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Billy Budd and Other Stories

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1782

Billy Budd and Other Tales
Herman Melville

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

Billy Elliot
Melvin Burgess

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 2001

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Billy Miller Makes a Wish (A Miller Family Story)
Kevin Henkes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Billy Summers
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Biloxi Blues
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

Binding 13
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018