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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

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Betrayal in the City

Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Better Nate Than Ever

Tim Federle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Better Than the Movies

Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Betting on You

Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Betty

Tiffany McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Betty Before X

Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Between Riverside And Crazy

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Between Sisters

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Between The Acts

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Between the World and Me

Richard Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Between Walls

William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1938

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Beverly, Right Here

Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Beware of the Dog

Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1946

Beware Soul Brother

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond Culture

Edward T. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Beyond Freedom and Dignity

B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Beyond Good And Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1886

Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

Susan Kuklin

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond That, the Sea

Laura Spence-Ash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Beyond the Bright Sea

Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Beyond the Horizon

Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

Tom Felton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Bhagavad Gita

Transl. Christopher Isherwood, Swami Prabhavananda

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Bible (New Testament): English Standard Version

Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Bible: Old Testament: English Standard Version

Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

"B" (If I Should Have a Daughter)

Sarah Kay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Big Black Good Man

Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Big Blonde

Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1929

Big Boy Leaves Home

Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel

Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Big Red

Jim Kjelgaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Big Summer

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Big Two-Hearted River

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Billy and the Minpins

Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

Billy Summers

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Binding 13

Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1817

Birches

Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Bird Box

Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Birdfoot’s Grampa

Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Birdsong

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Birthday Girl

Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Bitter in the Mouth

Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Black And White

Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1877

Blackberry Eating

Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Blackberry Picking

Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Blackbird House

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Brandy Colbert

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

Black Boy

Richard Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Boy Joy

Kwame Mbalia

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Black Brother, Black Brother

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Cat

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir

Peter Balakian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Black Elk Speaks

John Neihardt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1932

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | YA | Published in 2019

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Patricia Hill Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel

Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free

George Schuyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Blackout

Nicola Yoon, Ashley Woodfolk, Dhonielle Clayton, Angie Thomas, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Blackouts

Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Panther: The Young Prince

Billy Graham (comics), Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Rain

Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Robe

Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Black Ships Before Troy

Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Black Star

Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2024