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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 Water
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

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

Bob
Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quiñonez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Bonded by Thorns
Elizabeth Helen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bonds of Hercules
Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bone
Jeff Smith

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1991

Bone Gap
Laura Ruby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Booked
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Book Lovers
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Book of Night
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book Scavenger
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Bookshops & Bonedust
Travis Baldree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Borderlands La Frontera
Gloria E. Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Borders
Thomas King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

Borges and I
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Born a Crime
Trevor Noah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Born Behind Bars
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
John Charles Chasteen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Born of Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Born on a Blue Day
Daniel Tammet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Born on the Fourth of July
Ron Kovic

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

Born to Rock
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Born to Run: Biography
Bruce Springsteen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Bossypants
Tina Fey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Katherine Eban

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Boule De Suif
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1880

Bound
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No To Take Control of Your Life
Henry Cloud, John Townsend

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Bound by Honor
Cora Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bound For Oregon
Jean Van Leeuwen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Boy21
Matthew Quick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Boy at the Window
Richard Wilbur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

Boy Breaking Glass
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Boyfriend Material
Alexis Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Boy of the Painted Cave
Justin Denzel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Boy Overboard
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002