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Bittersweet
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Bittersweet Memories
Catharina Maura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Black and Blue
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Black and British: A Forgotten History
David Olusoga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Black and White
Jerri Blair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Black and White Styles in Conflict
Thomas Kochman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Black Apollo of Science
Kenneth R. Manning

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1983

Black Beauty
Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1877

Blackberry Winter
Sarah Jio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Jennifer Lauck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Blackbird Fly
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

Black Bird, Vol. 1
Kanoko Sakurakouji, Pancha Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Black Bolt, Vol. 1: Hard Time
Christian Ward, Saladin Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Black Bottom Saints
Alice Randall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Box
Amos Oz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
Matthew Syed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Boy
Richard Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Butler
Yana Toboso

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2007

Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
James Lee Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)
Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Dawn
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
David K. Randall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
Catherine Bailey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Black Diggers
Tom Wright

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Peter Balakian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Black Dogs
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Black Duck
Janet Taylor Lisle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Black Elk Speaks
John Neihardt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1932

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | YA | Published in 2019

Black-Eyed Susans
Julia Heaberlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Carolyn Finney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Blackfish City
Sam J. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Fox of Lorne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel
Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Girl Unlimited
Echo Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Black Gold
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1957

Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins
Jeff Lemire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Jim Frederick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Black Hills
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Black Hole Sun (Hell's Cross, #1)
David Macinnis Gill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Black Horses for the King
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Black House (The Talisman, #2)
Stephen King, Peter Straub, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Black Ice
Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Ice: A Memoir
Lorene Cary

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Black in Selma
J. L. Chestnut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Nikhil Pal Singh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Emily Bernard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Klansman: A Memoir
Ron Stallworth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Knight
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Blacklands (Exmoor Trilogy, #1)
Belinda Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Lies
Alessandra Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Black Light: Stories
Kimberly King Parsons

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Black List
Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Black Magic Sanction
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat
Russell Banks

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Black Mass
Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Black Mischief
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Blackmoore
Julianne Donaldson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free
George Schuyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Black Notice
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Black Orpheus
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Blackout
John J. Nance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blackout (All Clear, #1)
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Sarah Hepola

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Blackouts
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Panther (2016-2018) #1
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Black Panther: The Young Prince
Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Billy Graham (comics)

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?
Jesse J. Holland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Black Powder War
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Black Privilege
Charlamagne Tha God

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
E. Patrick Johnson, Mae G. Henderson

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Thomas Sowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Black River
S.M. Hulse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Black Robe
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Black Rose
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Black Sheep
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Black Star
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2024