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The Atlantis Gene
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Atlas Complex
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Atlas Paradox
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Theatre of the Oppressed
Augusto Boal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Attack
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Authenticity Project
Clare Pooley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1933

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965

The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez, Transl. Gregory Rabassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Awakening
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

The Awakening
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bacchae
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 405

The Back of the Turtle
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bad Guys: Episode 1
Aaron Blabey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Bad Weather Friend
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bagel
David Ignatow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Thebaid
Statius, Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 92

The Balcony
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ballad of Never After
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1911

The Ballot or the Bullet
Malcolm X

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1964

The Bandit Queens
Parini Shroff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Barbarian Nurseries
Héctor Tobar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Bar Code Tattoo
Suzanne Weyn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

The Barren Grounds
David Alexander Robertson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip On New York’s Mean Streets
Jim Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
W.D. Wetherell

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1983

The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Batboy
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Battle of Blenheim
Robert Southey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Battle of Maldon
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1726

The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Beach
Alex Garland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Beach Club
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Bear
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

The Bear
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Bear Came over the Mountain
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Alice Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

The Beatryce Prophecy
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Beautiful Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Beauty in Breaking
Michele Harper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bee Sting
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Beet Queen
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Beginning of Everything
Robyn Schneider

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Bell
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Bell Bandit
Jacqueline Davies

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Ann Braden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best at It
Maulik Pancholy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Best Halloween Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best of Friends
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Best of Iggy
Annie Barrows

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Best School Year Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Bet
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1889

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
Alessandro Manzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

The Better Sister
Alafair Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The BFG
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Big Field
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Big Thirst
Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan M. Katz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Big Wave
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bird Hotel
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Birds
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Birth House
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006