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A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Bend In The River
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Bird, came down the Walk
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

A Bird in the House
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1974

A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Arna Bontemps

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Valérie Zenatti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

A Boy at War
Harry Mazer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

A Boy Called Bat
Illustr. Charles Santoso, Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

A Brave And Startling Truth
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Brief History Of Neoliberalism
David Harvey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Brief History Of Time
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

A Burning
Megha Majumdar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Babette's Feast
Karen Blixen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Bad Boy: A Memoir
Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Bad Cree
Jessica Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Bad Mormon
Heather Gay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Summer People
Emma Rosenblum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Bag of Bones
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Bag of Bones
Dunya Mikhail

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ballad
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Ballad of Birmingham
Dudley Randall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeild

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1936

Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Balto and the Great Race
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Transl. Ina Rilke, Dai Sijie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bamboo People
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Cynthia Enloe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Banner In The Sky
James Ramsey Ullman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

Ban This Book
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Banyan Moon
Thao Thai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Barakah Beats
Maleeha Siddiqui

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Barbara Frietchie
John Greenleaf Whittier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Bared To You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
Alda P. Dobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Barefoot In The Park
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Barking to the Choir
Gregory Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

Barn Burning
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1939

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Barrio Boy
Ernesto Galarza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1853

Bastard Out Of Carolina
Dorothy Allison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Beach Music
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Beach Read
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Stephen Manes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Bear
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Bearstone
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Beartown
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Beautiful Boy
David Sheff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Beautiful Creatures
Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Beautiful Graves
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beauty and the Beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1740

Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Because of the Rabbit
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Becket
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Becoming
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Becoming Madam Secretary
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Becoming Mexican American
George J. Sanchez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Becoming Muhammad Ali
James Patterson, Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Becoming Naomi Leon
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Becoming Nicole
Amy Ellis Nutt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Beezus and Ramona
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1955

Before I Die
Jenny Downham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Before She Disappeared
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Before the Fall
Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Before We Were Strangers
Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Be Here Now
Ram Dass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Seymour Reit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Behind the Bedroom Wall
Laura E. Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Behind the Net
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Being And Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Being Henry David
Cal Armistead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
Henry Winkler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Being Heumann
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Being There
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Belladonna
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Nora Krug

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Rajiv Joseph

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1855

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Be Not Far from Me
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1000

Be Prepared
Vera Brosgol

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Betrayal in the City
Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Better Nate Than Ever
Tim Federle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Betty
Tiffany McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Between Riverside And Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Between Sisters
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Between The Acts
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Between the World and Me
Richard Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Between Walls
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1938

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Beverly, Right Here
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Beware of the Dog
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1946

Beware Soul Brother
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Bewilderment
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Beyond Good And Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1886

Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond That, the Sea
Laura Spence-Ash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Bhagavad Gita
Transl. Christopher Isherwood, Swami Prabhavananda

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Bible (New Testament): English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Bible: Old Testament: English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Big Black Good Man
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Big Blonde
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1929

Big Boy Leaves Home
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Ann Friedman, Aminatou Sow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Big Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Swiss
Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Big Two-Hearted River
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Billy and the Minpins
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

Billy Summers
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Binding 13
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Binti
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1817

Birches
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Bird Box
Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Birdfoot’s Grampa
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Birdsong
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Black And White
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Black Beauty
Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1877

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Blackberry Picking
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

Black Boy
Richard Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Boy Joy
Kwame Mbalia

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Cat
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Peter Balakian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Black Elk Speaks
John Neihardt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1932

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | YA | Published in 2019

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel
Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free
George Schuyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Blackout
Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, Dhonielle Clayton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Blackouts
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Panther: The Young Prince
Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Stan Lee, Billy Graham (comics)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Robe
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Black Star
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Sunday
Tola Rotimi Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Swan Green
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blacktop Wasteland
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Woman
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Blankets
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2003

Bleachers
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Blended
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Blindness
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Blind Your Ponies
Stanley Gordon West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Bliss
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Blizzard
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Blonde: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blood
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Blood at the Root
LaDarrion Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood in the Water
Heather Ann Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bloodmarked
Tracy Deonn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
Peter Schweizer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Blood of Elves
Transl. Danusia Stok, Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Blood on the River
Elisa Carbone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Bloom
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Blowout
Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Blubber
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

Bluebeard
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bluefish
Pat Schmatz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Bob
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quiñonez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Bone
Jeff Smith

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1991

Bone Gap
Laura Ruby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Booked
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Book Lovers
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book of Night
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book Scavenger
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Bookshops & Bonedust
Travis Baldree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023