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The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Ballot or the Bullet
Malcolm X

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1964

The Bandit Queens
Parini Shroff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Barbarian Nurseries
Héctor Tobar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Bar Code Tattoo
Suzanne Weyn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Barren Grounds
David Alexander Robertson

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

The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip On New York’s Mean Streets
Jim Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
W.D. Wetherell

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1983

The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Batboy
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Battle of Blenheim
Robert Southey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Battle of Maldon
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1726

The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Beach
Alex Garland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Bear
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

The Bear
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bear Came over the Mountain
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

The Beatryce Prophecy
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Beautiful Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Beauty in Breaking
Michele Harper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bee Sting
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Beet Queen
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Beginning of Everything
Robyn Schneider

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Bell
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Bell Bandit
Jacqueline Davies

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Benefits of Being an Octopus
Ann Braden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Best Halloween Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best of Iggy
Annie Barrows

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Bet
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1889

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
Alessandro Manzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

The BFG
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Big Field
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Big Thirst
Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Jonathan M. Katz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Big Wave
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bird Hotel
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Birds
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Birth House
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The birth in a narrow room
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

The Birthmark
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1843

The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu Kamara

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Bitter Side of Sweet
Tara Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
Paul Gilroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1843

The Black Death
Philip Ziegler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History
Ole Jørgen Benedictow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Black Echo
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

The Black Pearl
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Black Stallion
Walter Farley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

The Blackstone Rangers
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Blazing World
Margaret Cavendish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1666

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1872

The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Blue Bowl
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Blue Hotel
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Blue Terrance
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

The Boarded Window
Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

The Boarding House
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

The Body
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1982

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bodyguard
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014