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Becoming Nicole
Amy Ellis Nutt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Becoming Unbecoming
Una

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Bed of Roses
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Beebo Brinker
Ann Bannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Richard Fariña

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Beer and Circus
Murray A. Sperber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Beer in the Snooker Club (Twentieth Century Lives)
Waguih Ghali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Bee Season
Myla Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Beetle Boy (The Battle of the Beetles #1)
M.G. Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Beezus and Ramona
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1955

Before
Anna Todd

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Before Adam
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Before and After
Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Before Ever After
Samantha Sotto Yambao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Die
Jenny Downham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Before I Say Goodbye
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Before Jamaica Lane
Samantha Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Before She Disappeared
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Before She Knew Him
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Before Stonewall
Andrea Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Before the Fall
Noah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Before the Law
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

Before the Poison
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Before We Were Strangers
Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Before You Knew My Name
Jacqueline Bublitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Be Frank With Me
Julia Claiborne Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Beginners
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1981

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Peter Barry

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Behemoth
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Behind a Mask
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1866

Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behind Every Good Man
Sara Goodman Confino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Behind the Bedroom Wall
Laura E. Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Nancy Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Behold a Pale Horse
Milton William Cooper

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Behold the Man
Michael Moorcock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Being And Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Being Born
Sheila Kitzinger

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Being Henry David
Cal Armistead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Being Heumann
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Being Nikki
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Being There
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Beka Lamb
Zee Edgell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Bel-Ami
Douglas Parmée, Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Belfast Diary
John Conroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Belgarath the Sorcerer
Leigh Eddings, David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

Belgravia
Julian Fellowes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Believarexic
J.J. Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2015

Believe Me
J P Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Believe Me (Shatter Me, #6.5)
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Believers: A Novella and Stories
Charles Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Believing the Lie (Inspector Lynley, #17)
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Belle Epoque
Elizabeth Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Belle Prater's Boy
Ruth White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Bellevue Square
Michael Redhill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bellum Catilinae
Sallust

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Bellweather Rhapsody
Kate Racculia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bellwether
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Belly Up: Stories
Rita Bullwinkel

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Belonging
Nora Krug

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Belonging: A Culture of Place
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Belong to Me
Marisa de los Santos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Beloved
Corinne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Below Stairs
Margaret Powell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Below Zero (Joe Pickett, #9)
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Belzhar
Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Be Mine
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023