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A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy
Sonia Purnell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman on a Roof
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1963

A Work in Progress
Jarrett Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

A Work Of Artifice
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

A World In Disarray
Richard Haass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A World Without Princes
Soman Chainani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

A Worn Path
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

Axolotl
Julio Cortázar

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

A Young People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2007

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Babette's Feast
Karen Blixen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

Babylon's Ashes
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bad Boy: A Memoir
Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Bad Cree
Jessica Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Bad Mormon
Heather Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Summer People
Emma Rosenblum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Bag of Bones
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Bag of Bones
Dunya Mikhail

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ballad
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Ballad of Birmingham
Dudley Randall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeild

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1936

Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Balto and the Great Race
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie, Transl. Ina Rilke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bamboo People
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Cynthia Enloe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Banner In The Sky
James Ramsey Ullman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

Ban This Book
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Banyan Moon
Thao Thai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Barakah Beats
Maleeha Siddiqui

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Barbara Frietchie
John Greenleaf Whittier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Bared To You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
Alda P. Dobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Barefoot In The Park
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Barking to the Choir
Gregory Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

Barn Burning
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1939

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Barrio Boy
Ernesto Galarza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1853

Baseball in April and Other Stories
Gary Soto

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Bastard Out Of Carolina
Dorothy Allison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Joyce Meyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Battle of the Bookstores
Ali Brady

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beach Music
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Beach Read
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Stephen Manes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Bear
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Bearstone
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Beartown
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Beautiful Boy
David Sheff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Beautiful Graves
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beautiful Venom
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beauty and the Beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1740

Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Because of the Rabbit
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Becket
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Becoming
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Becoming Madam Secretary
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Becoming Mexican American
George J. Sanchez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Becoming Muhammad Ali
James Patterson, Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Becoming Naomi Leon
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Becoming Nicole
Amy Ellis Nutt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Beezus and Ramona
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1955