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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 Henry David
Cal Armistead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
Henry Winkler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Belladonna
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

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

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1855

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Be Not Far from Me
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

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

Be Prepared
Vera Brosgol

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

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

Betty Before X
Renée Watson, Ilyasah Shabazz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Acts
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Between the World and Me
Richard Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Between Walls
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1938

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Beverly, Right Here
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Beware of the Dog
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1946

Beware Soul Brother
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Bewilderment
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

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 That, the Sea
Laura Spence-Ash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Beyond the Bright Sea
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1920

Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Bhagavad Gita
Transl. Christopher Isherwood, Swami Prabhavananda

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Bible (New Testament): English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Bible: Old Testament: English Standard Version
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1611

Big Black Good Man
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Big Blonde
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1929

Big Boy Leaves Home
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Lincoln Peirce

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Big Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Swiss
Jen Beagin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Big Two-Hearted River
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Billy and the Minpins
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

Billy Summers
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Binding 13
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Binti
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1817

Birches
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Bird Box
Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Birdfoot’s Grampa
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Birdsong
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Bitter in the Mouth
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Black And White
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Black Beauty
Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1877

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980