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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 for Skandia
John A. Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Battle of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

The Beach House
James Patterson, Peter de Jonge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Beach House
Rachel Hanna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Beach of Falesá
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

The Beach Trees
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Beantown Girls
Jane Healey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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
Renée Ahdieh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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 Ones
Prince

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Beautiful Struggle (adapted for Young Adults)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2021

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 Belles
Dhonielle Clayton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Bells
Richard Harvell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Alison Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Berlin Letters
Katherine Reay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Dog in the World
Alice Hoffman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

The Best Is yet to Come
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 of Me
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

The Best of Us
Joyce Maynard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Rosemary Sullivan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Bible Says So
Dan Mcclellan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Gay Hendricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

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 Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Big Sea
Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1940

The Binding
Bridget Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bingo Palace
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
Bruce H. Lipton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Bird Artist
Howard Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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 Bird Oracle
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Dahlia
James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

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 Black Ice
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Black Tulip
Robin Buss, Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Black Widow
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Black Witch
Laurie Forest

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Blinding Knife
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Identity
Ally Carter

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 Blood Traitor
Lynette Noni

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Blue Between Sky and Water
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blue Bistro
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926