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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 Bog Wife
Kay Chronister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

The Book of Boy
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Book of Chameleons
Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Book of Embraces
Eduardo Galeano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of Essie
Meghan MacLean Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of Evidence
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of Fate
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1645

The Book of Genesis
Robert Crumb

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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 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 Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Bookshop Below
Georgia Summers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bookstore Diaries
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Boxcar Librarian
Brianna Labuskes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Box in the Woods
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

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 Break-In
Katherine Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Bridesmaid
Cate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Bride Test
Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bridge at Andau
James Michener

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

The Brief History of the Dead
Kevin Brockmeier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Brighter the Light
Mary Ellen Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Brightest Night
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

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 Girls
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1808

The Broker
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

The Bullet Swallower
Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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