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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 Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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 K
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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 Buccaneers
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

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 Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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