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The Body in the Woods: A Point Last Seen Mystery
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Bondwoman's Narrative
Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed., Hannah Crafts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone People
Keri Hulme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Bone Season
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Boogeyman
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Abbi Waxman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Book of Delights
Ross Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book of Doors
Gareth Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1436

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Transl. Joseph Smith

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1830

The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Book of Night Women
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Book of Salt
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Book of Sand
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

The Book of the Courtier
Baldassarre Castiglione

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1528

The Book of Thel
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Yolek
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book Woman's Daughter
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Borrowers
Mary Norton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Bostonians
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Bottle Imp
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Warner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1924

The Boy at The Top of the Mountain
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Boyfriend
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Boy from the Woods
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Boy in the Black Suit
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Boy On The Wooden Box
Leon Leyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2013

The Boys from Biloxi
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
William Kamkwamba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Boy Who Saved Baseball
John H. Ritter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Braggart Soldier
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Break
Katherena Vermette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Breakdown
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Briar Club
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Bridegroom
Ha Jin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
Danielle L. Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
Annie Lyons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bromance Book Club
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1841

The Brooklyn Nine
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Brothers Hawthorne
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Brothers Menaechmus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bull Moose
Alden Nowlan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Bully
Paul Langan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Burning Babe
Robert Southwell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

The Burning Maze
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Butcher and the Wren
Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Butterfly Lion
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016