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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 Boy at War
Harry Mazer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

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

Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

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 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

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
Dunya Mikhail

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ballad
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Bamboo People
Mitali Perkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

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

Barbara Frietchie
John Greenleaf Whittier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Bared To You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Barefoot In The Park
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Barking to the Choir
Gregory Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Beach Read
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Ruins
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

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

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012

Becoming Mexican American
George J. Sanchez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

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

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 Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

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 We Were Free
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

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

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

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 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

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

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

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

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

Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

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

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 the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Between Walls
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1938

Beware Soul Brother
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Bewilderment
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920