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Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bus Stop
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

But That Was Yesterday
Kathleen Eagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Buyology
Martin Lindstrom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies
Tara Schuster

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

By Any Other Name
Laura Jarratt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

By Nightfall
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

By the Fire We Carry
Rebecca Nagle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

By the Light of My Father's Smile
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

BZRK
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Baker's Secret
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ball and the Cross
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Baltimore Waltz
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Bamboo Dancers
N. V. M. Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Bark Tree
Raymond Queneau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Barracks Thief
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1986

The Basement Room
Graham Greene

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1935

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Bat
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bat Poet
Randall Jarrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Battle for Christmas
Stephen Nissenbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Battle of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Beach House
James Patterson, Peter de Jonge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Beach Trees
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Bear
Andrew Krivak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Beast in the Garden
David Baron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Beatles
Bob Spitz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Beautiful Ones
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Beautiful Side of Evil
Johanna Michaelsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

The Beauty and the Sorrow
Peter Englund

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Becoming
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bees
Laline Paull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Joel Ben Izzy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

The Beggar Maid
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

The Beggar's Opera
John Gay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1728

The Beginning Comes After the End
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

The Behavior of the Hawkweeds
Andrea Barrett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

The Believers
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Belle of Amherst
William Luce

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Bells
Richard Harvell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Berlin Wall
Frederick Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Best And The Brightest
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Best Man
Malcolm D. Lee, Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Best War Ever: America and World War II
Michael C.C. Adams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Best Worst Thing
Lauren Okie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Betrothed
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Bicycle Diaries
David Kroodsma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Big Bad Wolf
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Big Dark Sky
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Big Disconnect
Catherine Steiner-Adair

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Big Money
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Big Necessity
Rose George

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Big Sea
Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1940

The Bingo Palace
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bird Artist
Howard Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bitter Season
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1888

The Black Book
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Black Cauldron
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1965

The Black Count
Tom Reiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black God's Drums
P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Black Hand
Stephan Talty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Blind Man
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

The Blind Watchmaker: Why The Evidence Of Evolution Reveals A Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Block Party
Jamie Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Blood Knot
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Boat
Nam Le

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

The Body Artist
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

The Body Farm
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Body in the Backyard
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Body Project
Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bond That Burns
Briar Boleyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bone Shard Daughter
Andrea Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bone Tree
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bookbinder's Secret
A. D. Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Book Club Hotel
Sarah Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Aron
Jim Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015