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Break
Dorianne Laux

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Breakfast on Pluto
Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Breakfast With Buddha
Roland Merullo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Liz Murray

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Breaking Stalin's Nose
Eugene Yelchin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Breaking Through
Francisco Jiménez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2001

Break of Day
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Breakout
Kate Messner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami, Transl. David Boyd, Transl. Sam Bett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Breathe and Count Back from Ten
Natalia Sylvester

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Breathing Underwater
Alex Flinn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Brian's Hunt
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Brian's Return
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Brian's Winter
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Brick Lane
Monica Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Bride
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bright Lights, Big City
Jay Mcinerney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1984

Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Pamela Druckerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bring Up The Bodies
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Brisingr
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Britt-Marie Was Here
Fredrik Backman, Transl. Henning Koch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Broken April
Ismail Kadare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Broken Bayou
Jennifer Moorhead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Broken Bonds
J Bree

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bronx Masquerade
Nikki Grimes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
Brooke Shields

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Brother
Ania Ahlborn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Brother: A Novel
David Chariandy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Brotherless Night
V.V. Ganeshananthan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Brothers
Alex Van Halen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Brown Girl, Brownstones
Paule Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Brownies
ZZ Packer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe
Bruce Olson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Bruiser
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Ross King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Arthur C. Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Bullet in the Brain
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

Bullet Points
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Bull Run
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Bully
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
James Howe, Deborah Howe

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

Bunny
Mona Awad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Burial Rites
Hannah Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
Viviana Mazza, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Buried Onions
Gary Soto

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Burmese Days
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Burn
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Burning a Book
William Stafford

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Burning Chrome
William Gibson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1982

Burning the Old Year
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Burro Genius
Victor Villaseñor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Bury Your Dead
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Butcher & Blackbird
Brynne Weaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Butter
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
Asako Yuzuki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto González

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Butterfly Yellow
Thanhha Lai

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Button, Button: Uncanny Stories
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1970

B. Wordsworth
V. S. Naipaul

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

By a Thread
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Bye, Baby
Carola Lovering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

By Her Own Design
Piper Huguley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Bystander
James Preller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

By the Great Horn Spoon!
Sid Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1963

By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1939

By the Waters of Babylon
Stephen Vincent Benét

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1937

Cabin Fever
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1935

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1898

Caged Bird
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

Cajas de Carton
Francisco Jiménez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Caleb Williams
William Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794