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The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Block Party
Jamie Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Block (The Loop Trilogy, #2)
Ben Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Blonde
Duane Swierczynski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blonde Identity
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Blondes
Emily Schultz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blood Knot
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Bloodless Boy (Hunt & Hooke, #1)
Robert J. Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Blood Mirror
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Blood of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Blood of the Lamb
Peter De Vries

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Blood Traitor
Lynette Noni

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
Brenda Woods

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Blue Between Sky and Water
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Blue Bistro
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Blue Bottle Club
Penelope J. Stokes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Blue Cat of Castle Town
Catherine Cate Coblentz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Blue Fox
Sjón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Blue Girl (Newford, #15)
Charles de Lint

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Blue Helmet
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Blue Lagoon
Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Blues I'm Playing
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Blue Umbrella
Mike Mason

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Boardwalk Bookshop
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Boat
Nam Le

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

The Boat of a Million Years
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Boat People
Sharon Bala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
William Hope Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Farley Mowat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Bodhisattva
Jun Ishikawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Body
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1982

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Body Artist
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

The Body Farm
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Body Finder
Kimberly Derting

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Bodyguard
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Body in the Woods: A Point Last Seen Mystery
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Body Papers
Grace Talusan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Body Project
Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Body Reader
Anne Frasier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Body Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

The Boggart
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
P.V. Glob, Peter Vilhelm Glob

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Boleyn Inheritance
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
Frances Osborne

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
Sujata Massey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Bondwoman's Narrative
Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bone Bed
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Bone Cage
Angie Abdou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bone Church
Victoria Dougherty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Bone Garden
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Bone Houses
Emily Lloyd-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

The Bonehunters
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Bone Maker
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Bone People
Keri Hulme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Bone Season
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, #1)
Andrea Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
R.J. Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bones of Paris (Harris Stuyvesant, #2)
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Bone Tree
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bone Witch
Rin Chupeco

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Book
Alan W. Watts

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Bookbinder
Pip Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Abbi Waxman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bookman’s Tale
Charlie Lovett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Air and Shadows
Michael Gruber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Book of Aron
Jim Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Boy
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018