The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner, is the first in a series of mystery novels for early-to-middle-grade readers. The story tells of four orphaned children who find shelter in an abandoned railroad boxcar and learn how to live by themselves in the woods while hiding from their feared grandfather.First published in 1924 and revised by the author in 1942, the book proved popular, and Warner wrote 19 more books about the Boxcar Children. Other... Read The Boxcar Children Summary

The Boyfriend (2024) is a psychological thriller by American novelist Freida McFadden. The novel is told alternatingly from the perspective of Sydney Shaw, a 34-year-old woman in Manhattan looking for love on the fictional dating app Cynch, and Tom Brewer, a troubled high school student suspected of killing two classmates. The two plotlines merge when Sydney begins to suspect that her new boyfriend Tom might be lying about his past. Major themes in the novel... Read The Boyfriend Summary

The Boy From the Woods (2020) is the first book in the two-book Wilde series by Harlan Coben. It is an adult mystery suspense legal thriller and follows Wilde, the titular “boy from the woods,” and Hester, a famous television lawyer, as they are sucked into a complex case involving missing teenagers, divisive politicians, and a wealthy documentarian. The Boy From the Woods was nominated for the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Mystery and... Read The Boy from the Woods Summary

Jason Reynolds’s 2015 young adult realistic contemporary novel, The Boy in the Black Suit, follows main character, Matt Miller, through several months of his senior year after the death of his mother. His grieving process is complicated by his father’s lengthy hospitalization after an accident, which leaves Matt to cope with his sadness alone. Matt discovers unexpected comfort, however, in his new job helping neighbor and funeral home director Mr. Ray. Matt meets Love, who... Read The Boy in the Black Suit Summary

The Boys from Biloxi is a legal thriller written by John Grisham. Published in 2022, it tells the story of two men who are pitted against one another, as one runs a criminal enterprise and the other prosecutes crime as district attorney. An international best-selling author, Grisham worked as a lawyer for nearly a decade before becoming an author. His expertise informs the novel’s descriptions of legal processes and its thematic exploration of legality versus... Read The Boys from Biloxi Summary

The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a 2000 children’s novel by Canadian author and activist Deborah Ellis. It centers on an 11-year-old girl named Parvana who, due to her family’s circumstances, is forced to defy the Taliban and their repressive laws to become the breadwinner for her family. Exploring themes of human connection, maturation and bravery, and the repression of women, The Breadwinner was critically acclaimed upon its release and has had over 40... Read The Breadwinner Summary

katherena vermette’s novel, The Break, was published in Canada in 2016 and the United States in 2018. The author, who grew up in Winnipeg—the setting of the novel—is part of the Métis Nation, and she focuses her writing on themes related to Indigenous people in Canada and the Northern United States. The Break has won several awards including the Governor’s General Literary Award and Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit, and Métis Literature.The Break focuses... Read The Break Summary

The Bridge Home was published in 2019 by Indian American author Padma Venkatraman and has received extensive critical praise. The Bridge Home won the Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction and the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. Raised through her teens in India, Venkatraman spent her childhood caring for impoverished children like those she writes about in the novel. In addition to penning several other noteworthy books for younger readers, the... Read The Bridge Home Summary

Written by New York Times best-selling author Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom is the first installment in the series of the same name, which currently includes five published titles and an unnamed sixth title in progress. Originally published in 2018 on Audible, then self-published in 2019, the novel is set in the new adult fantasy genre and follows the journey of Lara, a Maridrinian princess who marries Aren, the king of Ithicana, as part... Read The Bridge Kingdom Summary

The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff was published on April 22, 2025, by Simon and Schuster. It follows the Bright family across four generations in Texas as they struggle to contend with the impact of abuse and alcohol addiction. Damoff is a social worker in Texas, and she draws from her own experiences in the field to explore the hardship and hope faced by many families. The novel features husband and wife Ryan and Lillian... Read The Bright Years Summary

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett is a novel by Annie Lyons published in 2020 by William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins). The United Kingdom version (2020) is titled Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You.Annie Lyons began her career in bookselling and then publishing before becoming a novelist. Based in London, England, Lyons has published seven novels and one novella, including The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, which was a USA Today bestseller and... Read The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett Summary

The Bromance Book Club (2019) by Lyssa Kay Adams is the first installment in the Bromance Book Club series, which has garnered significant attention, including a movie option and webcomic adaptation. Set against the backdrop of Nashville, Tennessee, the story follows professional baseball player Gavin Scott as he joins an underground men’s book club that reads romance novels to help improve their relationships. Through this playful premise, Adams subverts traditional gender stereotypes, providing valuable insights... Read The Bromance Book Club Summary

The Bronze Horseman is a historical romance novel by Russian-American author Paullina Simons. Originally published in 2000 by William Morrow, the novel is a USA-Today Bestseller and the first title in Simons’s The Bronze Horseman Trilogy. The Bronze Horseman is set in 1941 Leningrad and traces the forbidden romance of Tatiana Metanova and Alexander Belov. The two fall in love at first sight, but Tatiana’s older sister Dasha’s interest in Alexander keeps the two apart... Read The Bronze Horseman Summary

The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings is a work of middle grade historical fiction written by Alan Gratz. The novel is told in nine innings, or parts, and each “inning” contains three chapters, just as an inning in a baseball game has three outs per team. The novel is told in a series of linked short stories about different generations of the Schneider family, starting in 1845 and ending in 2002. All the... Read The Brooklyn Nine Summary

The Brothers Hawthorne (2023) is the fourth installment of The Inheritance Games series (The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit), with the fifth book (a collection), Games Untold, scheduled to be released in November 2024. The Brothers Hawthorne and Games Untold overlap Barnes’s sequel series, which begins with The Grandest Game (July 2024). Alternating between Jameson’s and Grayson Hawthorne’s points of view, The Brothers Hawthorne follows both brothers as they navigate their relationships... Read The Brothers Hawthorne Summary

David James Duncan’s 1992 novel, The Brothers K, is a sprawling family saga set in Washington state against the backdrop of the Vietnam War era. An extended allusion to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1879), the story is narrated by Kincaid Chance, the youngest of four brothers, as he chronicles his family’s tumultuous journey from the 1950s through the 1970s. The central conflict revolves around the opposing worldviews of his parents: his father, a minor... Read The Brothers K Summary

The Buccaneers is a historical novel by Edith Wharton. An unfinished version of the novel was published posthumously in 1938 and then completed from Wharton’s notes in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The plot involves wealthy young American women who cross the Atlantic in the 1870s to marry into the British aristocracy. Nicknamed “buccaneers” for storming the gates of England’s rigid society with their new-world wealth and vitality, these women find themselves navigating the clash between... Read The Buccaneers Summary

Steven Ozment’s The Bürgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town, originally published in 1996, is a historical biography of Anna Büschler, a charismatic 16th-century woman from Schwäbisch Hall who famously feuded with her father, siblings, and hometown city council. Anna’s big personality, her affairs, her multiple legal battles, and the injustices imposed upon her by her family and the city caused wild speculation and gossip in the region during her lifetime.Steven Ozment (1939-2019) was... Read The Burgermeister's Daughter Summary

Elizabeth Strout’s novel The Burgess Boys, published in 2013, explores the relationships between adult siblings during a time of family crisis. It examines the ways that past events and traumas continue to shape one’s sense of self. Set amid a Somali refugee crisis in the state of Maine, it also explores the ways that identity forms community and the way that community can be affected by newcomers.The author of 10 novels, Strout is acclaimed for... Read The Burgess Boys Summary

The Burning Maze (2018) is the third book in Rick Riordan’s young adult Trials of Apollo series, following The Hidden Oracle (2016) and The Dark Prophecy (2017). Set in Riordan’s Percy Jackson universe and inspired by ancient Greek and Roman mythology, the series follows the former god Apollo, who is now forced to live as a mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. To regain his immortality, Apollo must serve under Meg, a daughter of Demeter and... Read The Burning Maze Summary