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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 Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
Martha Beck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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
Swami Prabhavananda, Transl. Christopher Isherwood

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 Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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 Hole
Charles Burns

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2005

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

Blackthorn
J. T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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