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Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Rajiv Joseph

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1855

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Be Not Far from Me
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1000

Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Betrayal in the City
Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Between Riverside And Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Between Walls
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1938

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Beverly, Right Here
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Beware of the Dog
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1946

Beware Soul Brother
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Bewilderment
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond Good And Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1886

Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

Beyond That, the Sea
Laura Spence-Ash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Bhagavad Gita
Swami Prabhavananda, Transl. Christopher Isherwood

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972

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

Big Black Good Man
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Big Blonde
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1929

Big Boy Leaves Home
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Big Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Swiss
Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Big Two-Hearted River
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

Billy Summers
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Binti
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1817

Birches
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

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

Birdfoot’s Grampa
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Birdsong
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Beauty
Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1877

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Blackberry Picking
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Boy
Richard Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Cat
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Peter Balakian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Black Elk Speaks
John Neihardt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1932

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Blackouts
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Robe
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Sunday
Tola Rotimi Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Swan Green
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blacktop Wasteland
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Blankets
Craig Thompson

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

Bleachers
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Blended
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Blindness
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Bliss
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941