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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

Billionaire Boy

David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

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

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Blackouts

Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Panther: The Young Prince

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Rain

Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Reconstruction In America

W. E. B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

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

Black Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Sunday

Tola Rotimi Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blacktop Wasteland

S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Woman

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Woods, Blue Sky

Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Blankets

Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2003

Bleachers

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Blended

Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Blindness

José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Blind Your Ponies

Stanley Gordon West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Bliss

Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

Blithe Spirit

Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Blizzard

Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Blonde: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blood

Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Blood and Thunder

Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Blood at the Root

LaDarrion Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Patrick Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood in the Water

Heather Ann Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bloodmarked

Tracy Deonn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

Peter Schweizer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Blood Moon

Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Blood of Elves

Andrzej Sapkowski, Transl. Danusia Stok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)

Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Blood on the River

Elisa Carbone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Blood Over Bright Haven

M. L. Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Blood Wedding

Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Bloom

Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Blowin' in the Wind

Bob Dylan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Blowout

Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Blubber

Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

Bluebeard

Charles Perrault

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bluefish

Pat Schmatz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

William Least Heat-Moon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Blues Ain't No Mockingbird

Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024