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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 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 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 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 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 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 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