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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Miguel León-Portilla

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Bromance Book Club

Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bronze Bow

Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

The Bronze Horseman

Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1841

The Brooklyn Nine

Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Brothers Hawthorne

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Brothers K

David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Brothers Menaechmus

Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Brutal Telling

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Buccaneers

Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bullet That Missed

Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bull Moose

Alden Nowlan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Bully

Paul Langan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town

Steven Ozment

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

The Burgess Boys

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Burning Babe

Robert Southwell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

The Burning Bridge

John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Burning God

R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Burning Maze

Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Business Trip

Jessie Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Butcher and the Wren

Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Butcher Game

Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2024

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Helmut Walser Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Butterfly Lion

Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Cabin at the End of the World

Paul Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Cage

Ruth Minsky Sender

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

The Calcutta Chromosome

Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1928

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1903

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

The Candy House

Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Candymakers

Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Candy Shop War

Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1400

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1887

The Canyon's Edge

Dusti Bowling

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

The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

Sam Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Captain's Daughter

Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

The Cardboard Kingdom

Chad Sell

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Caretaker: A Novel

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Carriage

Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1836

The Cartographers

Peng Shepherd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

Michael J. Sandel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Case For a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Lee Strobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Case for Christ

Lee Strobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Case for Reparations

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

The Case of the Missing Marquess

Nancy Springer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1846

The Castle

Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Castle in the Attic

Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1764

The Catbird Seat

James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Cat Who Saved Books

Sōsuke Natsukawa, Transl. Louise Heal Kawai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

The Caves of Steel

Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1969

The Celebrants

Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1865

The Celestial Omnibus

E. M. Forster

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

The Celestine Prophecy

James Redfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Cellar

Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn R. Saks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Chain

Adrian McKinty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Chalice of the Gods

Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Chalk Box Kid

Clyde Robert Bulla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Chamber

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Chambered Nautilus

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1858

The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Kati Marton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Changeling

Thomas Middleton, William Rowley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1622

The Changeling: A Novel

Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Chaperone

Laura Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1854

The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Charterhouse of Parma

Marie-Henri Beyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

The Chaser

John Collier

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1940

The Cheat Sheet

Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Cheese And The Worms: The Cosmos Of A Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock

Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

The Chicken Sisters

K.J. Dell'Antonia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

Jennifer Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Children of Húrin

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Children of Men

P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Children's Blizzard

David Laskin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Children's Hour

Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934

The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789