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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
Seymour Reit

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Behind the Bedroom Wall
Laura E. Williams

Fiction | Novel | 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 2003

Being and Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Being Henry David
Cal Armistead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
Henry Winkler, James Kaplan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Being There
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

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 2023

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth, Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
Adalyn Grace, Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Belly Up (FunJungle, #1)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Be More Chill
Ned Vizzini

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark T. Sullivan, 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 2007

Benito Cereno (Bedford College Editions)
Wyn Kelley, Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Be Not Far from Me
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

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

Be Prepared
Vera Brosgol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson, Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Between Riverside and Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

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: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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 | Published in 2019

Beware of the Dog
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

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 1977

Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Beyond Good and Evil
Michael Tanner, Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

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 2005

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Bhagavad Gita
Swami Prabhavananda, Transl. Christopher Isherwood

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1972

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 and Other Stories
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Big Boy Leaves Home
Richard Wright

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

Big Fish
Daniel Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Lies in a Small Town
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Big Red (Big Red, #1)
Carl Pfeuffer, Jim Kjelgaard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1992

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 2000

Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Billy Summers
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Binti (Binti, #1)
N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Birches
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

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 and White (Speak)
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Black Beauty
Gail Carson Levine, Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Blackberry Picking
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Boy
Jerry W. Ward Jr., Richard Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022