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The Book of Ivy
Amy Engel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Book of Joan
Lidia Yuknavitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Book of Joshua
Zachary Schomburg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Book of Memory
Petina Gappah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Merlyn
T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Book of Names
Royce Leville

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems
Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

The Book of One Hundred Truths
Julie Schumacher

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Book of Saladin
Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of the Dead
Jared Shurin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

The Book of the Dun Cow
Walter Wangerin Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of the Lion
Michael Cadnum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Book of You
Claire Kendal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bookseller of Kabul
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Book That Changed America
Randall Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Boston Strangler
Gerold Frank

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

The Bottle Factory Outing
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bound Man and Other Stories
Ilse Aichinger

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1953

The Box Man
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Boy in the Burning House
Tim Wynne-Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Boy on the Beach
Tima Kurdi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Boys in the Trees
Mary Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Boys of Winter
Wilfrid Sheed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Boy Without a Flag
Abraham Rodriguez Jr.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brave
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The Breakthrough
Gwen Ifill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Brethren
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

The Bride Price
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Bride Test
Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bridge at Andau
James Michener

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Brief History of the Dead
Kevin Brockmeier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bright Forever
Lee Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Broken Cord
Michael Dorris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1808

The Brothers K
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

The Bunker Diary
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Buried Mirror
Carlos Fuentes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Burning Girl
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Bushwhacked Piano
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Butcher Boy
Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Butler Did It
Kasey Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Butterfly Mosque
G. Willow Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010