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ALPHABETICAL

The Big Lie: A True Story
Isabella Leitner, Irving A. Leitner, Judy Pedersen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

The Big Money
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Big Necessity
Rose George

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Big Sea
Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1940

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Big Thirst
Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Big Time
Fritz Leiber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Billionaire's Obsession: Simon
J.S. Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Billionaire’s Wake-up-call Girl
Annika Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
Akhil Reed Amar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Binding
Bridget Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bingo Palace
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Biographer's Tale
A.S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Biography of a Grizzly
Ernest Thompson Seton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Biography of Florence Nightingale
Lytton Strachey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Birchbark House
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bird and the Blade
Megan Bannen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Bird and the Sword
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Bird Artist
Howard Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Birds' Christmas Carol
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Bird's Nest
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Birth House
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Bite of the Mango
Mariatu Kamara

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

The Bitter Kingdom
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5)
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bitter Season
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Bitter Side of Sweet
Tara Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1888

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
Paul Gilroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Black Box
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black Cathedral
Marcial Gala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Black Cauldron
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Black Circle
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Black Count
Tom Reiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Black Death
Philip Ziegler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Black Death: A Personal History
John Hatcher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Frederick Joseph

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Black God's Drums
P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Black Hand
Stephan Talty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Black Hand (Barker & Llewelyn, #5)
Will Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Blackhouse
Peter May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1)
Peter May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Black Island (Tintin #7)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Black Kids
Christina Hammonds Reed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Black Pearl
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Black Spider
Jeremias Gotthelf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Black Stallion
Walter Farley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate, #1)
Neon Yang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blacktongue Thief
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Black Tulip
Robin Buss, Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Black Widow
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)
Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Blessing
Nancy Mitford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Blind
A.F. Brady

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Blinding Knife
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Blind Man
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

The Blindness of the Heart
Julia Franck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006