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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Big Thirst
Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan M. Katz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Big Wave
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bird Hotel
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Birds
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Birth House
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The birth in a narrow room
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

The Birthmark
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1843

The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu Kamara

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Bitter Side of Sweet
Tara Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
Paul Gilroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1843

The Black Death
Philip Ziegler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History
Ole Jørgen Benedictow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Black Echo
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

The Black Pearl
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Black Stallion
Walter Farley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

The Blackstone Rangers
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Blazing World
Margaret Cavendish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1666

The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1872

The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Blue Bowl
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Blue Hotel
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Blue Terrance
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

The Boarded Window
Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

The Boarding House
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

The Body
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1982

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bodyguard
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Body in the Woods: A Point Last Seen Mystery
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bondwoman's Narrative
Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed., Hannah Crafts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone People
Keri Hulme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Bones Beneath My Skin
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bone Season
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Boogeyman
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Abbi Waxman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Azrael
Amber Nicole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Book of Bill
Alex Hirsch

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2024

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
David Von Drehle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Book of Delights
Ross Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Doors
Gareth Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1436

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Transl. Joseph Smith

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1830

The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Book of Night Women
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Book of Salt
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Book of Sand
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

The Book of the Courtier
Baldassarre Castiglione

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1528

The Book of Thel
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Yolek
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book That Wouldn't Burn
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book Woman's Daughter
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel
Anna Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Borrowers
Mary Norton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952