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ALPHABETICAL

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Nina Riggs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Bright Lands
John Fram

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
Annie Lyons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Liz Pichon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Broken Cord
Michael Dorris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Broken Ear (Tintin #6)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Broken Eye
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Broken Girls
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1808

The Broken Kingdoms
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Broken Shore (Broken Shore #1)
Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Broken Sword
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Broken Window
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Broken Wings
Kahlil Gibran, Anthony Rizcallah Ferris

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Broker
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bromance Book Club
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Brooklyn Nine
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Brotherhood of the Grape
John Fante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Brotherhood of the Rose (Mortalis, #1)
David Morrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brothers Hawthorne
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Brothers K
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Brothers Menaechmus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

The Bruised Reed
Richard Sibbes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Bubble Boy
Stewart Foster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Buccaneers
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Buffalo Soldier
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Builders
Daniel Polansky

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

The Bunker Diary
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Burden of Proof
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Burglar
David Goodis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Buried Mirror
Carlos Fuentes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Burning Bridge
John A. Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Burning Girl
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Burning Girls
C.J. Tudor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Burning God
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Burning Land
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Burning Room
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Burning Sky
Sherry Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Burning White
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme, #9)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bushwhacked Piano
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Butcher
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Butcher and the Wren
Alaina Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Butcher Boy
Patrick Mccabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Butchers' Blessing
Ruth Gilligan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Butcher's Boy (Butcher's Boy, #1)
Thomas Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Butler Did It
Kasey Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Butterfly Effect
Rachel Mans McKenny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Butterfly Lion
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Butterfly Mosque
G. Willow Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Button War
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018