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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 and the Waiting Game
Elana K. Arnold, Illustr. Charles Santoso

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Batman: A Death in the Family
Jim Starlin

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

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 | Adult | 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

Bee Season
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Beezus and Ramona
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1955

Before I Die
Jenny Downham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Before She Disappeared
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson

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

Before the Fall
Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Before They Are Hanged
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Before We Were Strangers
Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Be Here Now
Ram Dass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Seymour Reit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Behind the Bedroom Wall
Laura E. Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Behind the Net
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Being And Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Being Henry David
Cal Armistead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
Henry Winkler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Being Heumann
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Being There
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Belladonna
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Belonging: A Culture of Place
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Nora Krug

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

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

Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom
Matthew Swanson, Illustr. Robbi Behr

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

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

Be Prepared
Vera Brosgol

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835