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The Book of Chameleons
Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Book of Chocolate Saints
Jeet Thayil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of Chuang Tzu
Zhuangzi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Book of Doors
Gareth Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Book of Echoes
Rosanna Amaka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Embraces
Eduardo Galeano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of Essie
Meghan MacLean Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of Evidence
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of Fate
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Book Of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1645

The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Genesis
Robert Crumb

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Book of Ivy
Amy Engel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Book of Joan
Lidia Yuknavitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Book of Joshua
Zachary Schomburg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Book of Lies
Brad Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Book of Life
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost and Found
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Lost Fragrances (Reincarnationist, #4)
M.J. Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Book of M
Peng Shepherd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of Madness and Cures
Regina O'Melveny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Book of Magic
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1436

The Book of Memory
Petina Gappah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Merlyn
T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Transl. Joseph Smith

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1830

The Book of Names
Royce Leville

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems
Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Book of Night Women
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of One Hundred Truths
Julie Schumacher

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death, #0)
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Ruth
Jane Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Book of Saladin
Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of Salt
Monique Truong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Book of Secrets
Tom Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Book of Separation
Tova Mirvis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Book of Skulls
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Book of Speculation
Erika Swyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Tea
Kakuzō Okakura

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Book of the Body Politic
Christine de Pizan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of the Courtier
Baldassarre Castiglione

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1528

The Book of the Dead
Muriel Rukeyser

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Book of the Dun Cow
Walter Wangerin Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Book of the Law
Aleister Crowley, Rose Edith Crowley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Book of the Lion
Michael Cadnum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Book of Tomorrow
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book of Werewolves
Sabine Baring-Gould

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Book of You
Claire Kendal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan W. Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Bookseller
Cynthia Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bookseller of Kabul
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Bookshop of Yesterdays
Amy Meyerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Bookshop on the Shore
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book That Changed America
Randall Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Book That Wouldn't Burn
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Book Woman's Daughter
Kim Michele Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bordeaux Book Club
Gillian Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Border Legion
Zane Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Borrower
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Borrowers
Mary Norton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bostonians
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Boston Massacre
Hiller B. Zobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Boston Massacre: A Family History
Serena R. Zabin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020