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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 Pale
Emily Urquhart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

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

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 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 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 Sky (Jackson Brodie, #5)
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)
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

Billionaire Boy
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

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 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

Bingo Love
Joy San, Jenn St-Onge, Cardinal Rae, Tee Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Binny for Short (Binny, #1)
Hilary McKay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Binti
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1817

Biography of X
Catherine Lacey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bird
Crystal Chan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Bird Box
Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Birds of Paradise
Diana Abu-Jaber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Birds of Paradise Lost
Andrew Lam

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Birds Without Wings
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Birthday
Meredith Russo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Birthmarked
Caragh M. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Birthright
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

B Is for Burglar
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
Taki Soma, Lauren Sankovitch, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Clayton Cowles, Cris Peter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
Ben Mezrich

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Bite Me
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bite Me If You Can
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Biting Cold
Chloe Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bitten!
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bitten (Otherworld, #1)
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Bitterblue
Kristin Cashore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Bitter Falls
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Bitter Fruit
Achmat Dangor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Bitter Grounds
Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
Jen Lancaster

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Bitter Orange
Claire Fuller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych, #1)
Ian Tregillis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bittersweet
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999