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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

Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Blood And Gold
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Blood and Guts in High School

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Blood and Smoke
Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Blood Bound
Ellis Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Blood Brothers
Willy Russell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Blood-burning Moon
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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 2002

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

Bloodguard
Cecy Robson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Blood Heir
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Blood Hollow
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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 1996

Blood in the Water
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Blood Kiss
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Blood Knot and Other Plays
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bloodline
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Bloodline (Star Wars)
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodlust
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 2011

Blood Moon
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Blood Music
Greg Bear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (Latin American Studies)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

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 1996

Blood on Snow
Neil Smith, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Red Horse
K.M. Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Blood Red Road
Moira Young

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Blood Relations
Lisa M. Tillman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Blood Relations: and Other Plays (Prairie Play)
Sharon Pollock

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

Blood Rites (the Dresden Files, #6)
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
Tim Butcher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Bloodrose
Andrea Cremer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Blood Rose Rebellion (Blood Rose Rebellion, #1)
Rosalyn Eves

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Blood Shot (V.I. Warshawski, #5)
Sara Paretsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Bloodsinger
Juliette Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Blood Sisters
Jane Corry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
Sarah Gristwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)
Anthony Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Bloodsucking Fiends
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blood Sugar
Sascha Rothchild

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
Jason Schreier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Bloodsworth
Tim Junkin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Blood: The Stuff of Life (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Lawrence Hill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Bloodties
Ted Kerasote

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Blood, Tin, Straw
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Blood Vow
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Blood Water Paint
Joy McCullough

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Blood Will Tell (Point Last Seen, #2)
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bloody Bones
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Bloody Genius
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Bloody Heart
Sophie Lark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Bloody Jack
L.A. Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Bloody January (Harry McCoy, #1)
Alan Parks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bloody Rose
Nicholas Eames

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Bloom
Kevin Panetta, Illustr. Savanna Ganucheau

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2019

Bloomability
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Bloomsbury Girls
Natalie Jenner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Blowback
Miles Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Blow Fly
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
Bruce Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Blowout
Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019