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A Boy Called Bat
Elana K. Arnold, Illustr. Charles Santoso
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017
A Brief History Of Neoliberalism
David Harvey
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
Gwendolyn Brooks
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Michael Yarvitz, Rachel Maddow
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Transl. Ina Rilke, Dai Sijie
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000
Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Cynthia Enloe
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Stephen Manes
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
Beauty and the Beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1740
Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinley
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Michelle Obama
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2021
Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
Patti Callahan Henry
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Kwame Alexander, James Patterson
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Joe Dispenza
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015
Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020