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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 Broke the World
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

The Bostonians
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bottle Imp
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Warner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1924

The Boy at the Back of the Class
Onjali Q. Raúf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Boy at The Top of the Mountain
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Boyfriend
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Boy from the Woods
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Boy in the Black Suit
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Boy On The Wooden Box
Leon Leyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2013

The Boys from Biloxi
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
Thomas Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Phillip M. Hoose

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2015

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
William Kamkwamba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Boy Who Saved Baseball
John H. Ritter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Braggart Soldier
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Norman Doidge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Break
Katherena Vermette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Breakdown
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Briar Club
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Bridegroom
Ha Jin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
Danielle L. Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Bright Years
Sarah Damoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
Annie Lyons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Miguel León-Portilla

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Bromance Book Club
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1841

The Brooklyn Nine
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Brothers Hawthorne
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Brothers Menaechmus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bull Moose
Alden Nowlan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Bully
Paul Langan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town
Steven Ozment

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Burning Babe
Robert Southwell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

The Burning Bridge
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Burning God
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Burning Maze
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Business Trip
Jessie Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Butcher and the Wren
Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Butcher Game
Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2024

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
Helmut Walser Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Butterfly Lion
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016