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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 Beauty and the Sorrow
Peter Englund

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

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 Beauty of Darkness
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Beauty of Men
Andrew Holleran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Sarit Yishai-Levi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Beauty That Remains
Ashley Woodfolk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Beaux' Stratagem
George Farquhar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Becoming
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bedlam Stacks
Natasha Pulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Sarah Silverman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

The Beekeeper's Promise
Fiona Valpy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bees
Laline Paull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bee Sting
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Beetle
Richard Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Beet Queen
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Joel Ben Izzy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

The Beggar Maid
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

The Beggar's Opera
John Gay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1728

The Beginner's Goodbye
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Beginning of Everything
Robyn Schneider

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Beginning of Spring
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Beginning Place
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Behavior of the Hawkweeds
Andrea Barrett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

The Believers
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Bell
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Bellamy Trial
Frances Noyes Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bell Bandit
Jacqueline Davies

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Belle of Amherst
William Luce

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Belles (The Belles, #1)
Dhonielle Clayton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Bell in the Lake (Hekne, #1)
Lars Mytting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Bellmaker
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

The Bells
Richard Harvell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Berlin Blues
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2008

The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Berlin Letters
Katherine Reay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Berlin Wall
Frederick Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best
Mark Fleming-Williams

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The Best American Short Stories 2013
Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

The Best And The Brightest
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Best at It
Maulik Pancholy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
Kristin Levine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Best Cook in the World
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Best Halloween Ever
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

The Best Laid Plans
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Best Man
Grace Livingston Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Best of All Possible Worlds
Karen Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Best of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

The Best of Friends
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Best School Year Ever (The Herdmans, #2)
Barbara Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
Ari Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best Thing
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
Alexia Casale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui

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

The Bet
Rachel Van Dyken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Betrayed (The Betrothed, #2)
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
Alessandro Manzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

The Betrothed (The Betrothed, #1)
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Better Sister
Alafair Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The BFG
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

The Bible: A Biography
King James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Bicycle Diaries
David Kroodsma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Big Bad Wolf
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Big Crunch
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Big Dark
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Big Dark Sky
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Big Field
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Big Fix (Moses Wine, #1)
Roger L. Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Big Game
Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020