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The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Body in the Woods: A Point Last Seen Mystery
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone People
Keri Hulme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Bones Beneath My Skin
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bone Season
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Boogeyman
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The Bookbinder
Pip Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Marie Bostwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Abbi Waxman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Book of Azrael
Amber Nicole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Book of Bill
Alex Hirsch

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2024

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
David Von Drehle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Book of Delights
Ross Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Book of Doors
Gareth Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Hours
Hayley Gelfuso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Book of Magic
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1436

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Transl. Joseph Smith

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1830

The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Book of Night Women
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Book of Salt
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Book of Sand
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

The Book of Sheen: A Memoir
Charlie Sheen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan

Fiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1405

The Book of the Courtier
Baldassarre Castiglione

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1528

The Book of Thel
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Yolek
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

The Bookshop on the Corner
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book That Broke the World
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Book That Wouldn't Burn
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book Woman's Daughter
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel
Anna Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Borrowers
Mary Norton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Bostonians
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bottle Imp
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Warner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1924

The Boy at the Back of the Class
Onjali Q. Raúf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Boy at The Top of the Mountain
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Boyfriend
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Boy from the Woods
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Boy in the Black Suit
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Boy On The Wooden Box
Leon Leyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2013

The Boys from Biloxi
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood
Nina Willner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
Thomas Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Phillip M. Hoose

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2015

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
William Kamkwamba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Boy Who Saved Baseball
John H. Ritter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Maia Szalavitz, Bruce D. Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Braggart Soldier
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Norman Doidge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Break
Katherena Vermette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Breakdown
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Briar Club
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Bridegroom
Ha Jin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
Danielle L. Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024