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Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Sunday
Tola Rotimi Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Swan
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Black Swan Green
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Black: The Birth of Evil
Ted Dekker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
Ted Dekker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Ties & White Lies
Kat Singleton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Blacktop Wasteland
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Miranda Kaufmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Black Water
David Metzenthen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Black Water Rising
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Black Water Sister
Zen Cho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black, White, and Jewish
Rebecca Walker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Black Widows
Cate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Blackwood Farm
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Blacky the Crow
Thornton W. Burgess, Bob Blaisdell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Blade Runner
Ridley Scott

Fiction | Adult | Published in 1982

Blameless
Gail Carriger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1)
Barbara Neely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Blankets
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2003

Blasted
Sarah Kane

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

Blaze
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Blaze of Memory
Nalini Singh, Angela Dawe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Bleachers
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Bleach Vol. 1
Tite Kubo

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2002

Bleach, Vol. 1
Tite Kubo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Bleeding Edge: A Novel
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Blended
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Blessed Are the Dead (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #3)
Malla Nunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Warsan Shire

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2022

Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, #6)
Nevada Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Blind Justice
James Scott Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Blindness
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
Amy Daws

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
James Patterson, James O. Born

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Blindsight
Peter Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blindsighted
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Peter Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
Marty Makary

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Blind Voices
Tom Reamy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

Blind Your Ponies
Stanley Gordon West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Bliss
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Shaun Whiteside, Norman Ohler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Sally M. Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Blonde: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Blood And Gold
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Blood and Money: The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power
Thomas Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Blood and Smoke
Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Blood, Bones and Butter
Gabrielle Hamilton

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2011

Blood Bound
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Blood Brothers
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel
Elias Chacour, David Hazard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Blood-burning Moon
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10)
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood Cross
Faith Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blood Dazzler
Patricia Smith

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Greg Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Bloodfever
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Blood Fury (Black Dagger Legacy, #3)
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Blood Heir
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Bloodhound
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Bloodhounds (Peter Diamond, #4)
Peter Lovesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood in the Water
Heather Ann Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Blood Kiss
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Blood Knot and Other Plays
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bloodline
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Bloodlines
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Bloodline (Star Wars)
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Blood Magick
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bloodmarked
Tracy Deonn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Blood Memory
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Bloodmoney
David Ignatius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Blood Moon
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Blood Music
Greg Bear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Blood of Dragons
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Blood of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski, Transl. Danusia Stok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers, #3)
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Blood of the Fold
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Blood on Snow
Neil Smith, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Blood on the River
Elisa Carbone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Blood on the Tracks
Barbara Nickless

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Blood Orange
Harriet Tyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Blood Promise
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009