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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
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

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
Anthony Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #7)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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
James Patterson, Brendan DuBois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Blubber
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

Blue
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Blue Angel
Francine Prose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blue (Ann Fay Honeycutt, #1)
Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Blueback
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1997

Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen, #3)
Joanne Fluke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Bluebird
Sharon Cameron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Blue Birds
Caroline Starr Rose

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2015

Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, #1)
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Blue Calhoun
Reynolds Price

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Blue Dahlia
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blue Exorcist, Vol. 1
John Werry, Kazue Kato

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Blueeyedboy (Malbry, #3)
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blue-Eyed Devil
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Bluefish
Pat Schmatz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival
Christopher Lukas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Blue Gold (NUMA Files, #2)
Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Blue Hole Back Home
Joy Jordan-Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Blue Light
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Blue Lightning
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts On Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Paperback)
Donald Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Blue Monday
Nicci French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Blue Moon
Alyson Noël

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Blue Moon Bay (Moses Lake, #2)
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Blue of Noon
Georges Bataille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
Frederik Peeters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Blues for an Alabama Sky
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Blues for Mister Charlie
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Blue Smoke
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Amiri Baraka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

Blue Willow
Doris Gates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1940

Blurred Lines
Lauren Layne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Bob
Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bobos in Paradise
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Boccaccio
Thomas G. Bergin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1963

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quiñonez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Body Double
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Body in Question
Jonathan Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Body of Evidence
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Body Work (V.I. Warshawski, #14)
Sara Paretsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Boesman and Lena
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Bolívar: American Liberator
Marie Arana

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Bombingham
Anthony Grooms

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Bondage
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Bonded in Death (In Death, #60)
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bone
Jeff Smith

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1991

Bone Black
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Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996