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A Bag of Marbles
Joseph Joffo

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Bell for Adano
John Hersey

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Bend in the Road
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Bone from a Dry Sea
Peter Dickinson

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Valérie Zenatti

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Break with Charity
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Back Roads
Tawni O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bag of Bones
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Baltasar and Blimunda
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bang the Drum Slowly
Mark Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Banker to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Barabbas
Pär Lagerkvist

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Barefoot Heart
Elva Trevino Hart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Bark
Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Barkskins
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Barney Frank
Stuart Weisberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bartholomew Fair
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult

Baseball Fever
Johanna Hurwitz

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade

Baseball Great
Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Basketball (And Other Things)
Shea Serrano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Bastard Out Of Carolina
Dorothy Allison

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Baudelaire
Joanna Richardson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Baudolino
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Baumgartner's Bombay
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bayou Farewell
Mike Tidwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Beach Music
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bearing the Cross
David J. Garrow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Bears Discover Fire
Terry Bisson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Bearskin
James A. Mclaughlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Beastly
Alex Flinn

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beasts of No Nation
Uzodinma Iweala

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin (film)

Fiction | Play | Adult

Beatrice And Virgil
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Beaufort
Ron Leshem

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beautiful Darkness
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Beauty
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Beauty and Sadness
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Beauty Queens
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA

Be Careful What You Wish For
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Becoming Dr. Q
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Mim Eichler Rivas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Becoming Ms. Burton
Susan Burton, Cari Lynn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Beer and Circus
Murray A. Sperber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Bee Season
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Before Stonewall
Andrea Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Before the Fall
Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Be Frank With Me
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Beginners
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Behind a Mask
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Nancy Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Being Born
Sheila Kitzinger

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

Beka Lamb
Zee Edgell

Fiction | Novel | YA

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Belfast Diary
John Conroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Believarexic
J.J. Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA

Believers: A Novella and Stories
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Belle Epoque
Elizabeth Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA

Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Belle Prater's Boy
Ruth White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Bellweather Rhapsody
Kate Racculia

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Belzhar
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beneath My Mother's Feet
Amjed Qamar

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beneath Our Feet
R. H. Vernon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Maaza Mengiste

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Benediction
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Ben Jonson: A Life
Ian Donaldson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Bento Box in the Heartland
Linda Furiya

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Beowulf for Cretins: A Love Story
Ann Mcman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Be Recorder
Carmen Giménez Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Betrayal
Houston A. Baker Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Manuel Puig

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Betsey Brown
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Bettyville
George Hodgman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Between The Acts
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Between the Assassinations
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Marcus Rediker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Between the Lines
Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer

Fiction | Novel | YA

Beware of the Dog
Brian Moore (Pitbull)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Be With
Forrest Gander

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Beyond God the Father
Mary Daly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult