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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Emily Bernard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Klansman: A Memoir
Ron Stallworth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Black Knight
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Blacklands (Exmoor Trilogy, #1)
Belinda Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Lies
Alessandra Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Black Light: Stories
Kimberly King Parsons

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Black List
Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Black Looks: Race and Representation

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Black Magic Sanction
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat
Russell Banks

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Black Mass
Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Mischief
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Blackmoore
Julianne Donaldson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free
George Schuyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Black Notice
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Ops
Ric Prado

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Orpheus
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

Blackout
Mira Grant

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Blackout (All Clear, #1)
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Sarah Hepola

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Blackouts
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Panther (2016-2018) #1
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Black Panther: The Young Prince
Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Billy Graham (comics)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?
Jesse J. Holland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Black Powder War
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Black Privilege
Charlamagne Tha God

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
E. Patrick Johnson, Mae G. Henderson

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Reconstruction In America
W. E. B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

Black River
S.M. Hulse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Robe
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Black Rose
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Sheep
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Black Spring
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Black Star
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Black Star, Bright Dawn
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

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 (The Circle, #1)
Ted Dekker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Blackthorn
J. T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

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 2002

Blacky the Crow
Thornton W. Burgess, Bob Blaisdell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

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 1992

Blankets
Craig Thompson

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

Blasted
Sarah Kane

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

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

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

Blessings
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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 1998

Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Blind Justice
James Scott Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blindness
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blindside
James Patterson, James O. Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Blind Side
Kandi Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
Amy Daws

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Blindsight
Peter Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Blindsighted
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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 1978

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 1981

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

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 of the Blue Moon
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

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