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The Bacchae
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 405

The Bachman Books
Stephen King, Richard Bachman, Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

The Back of the Turtle
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Bad Guys: Episode 1
Aaron Blabey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Bad Place
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Bad Seed
William March

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Baker's Daughter
Sarah McCoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Baker's Secret
Stephen P. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Balcony
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Bald Soprano and Other Plays
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

The Balkan Trilogy
Olivia Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad, #5)
Sharyn McCrumb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
Briony Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Karen Cushman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Ballad of Never After
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1951

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1911

The Ball and the Cross
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Baller
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ballerina of Auschwitz
Edith Eger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Baltimore Waltz
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Bamboo Dancers
N. V. M. Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Bandit Queens
Parini Shroff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2013

The Barbarian Nurseries
Héctor Tobar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Bar Code Tattoo
Suzanne Weyn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Barefoot Woman
Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Barking Ghost (Goosebumps, #32)
R.L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Bark Tree
Raymond Queneau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Barren Grounds
David Alexander Robertson

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

The Basement Room
Graham Greene

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1935

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Carlo M. Cipolla

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Basic Political Writings
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Bastard
John Jakes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Bat
Transl. Don Bartlett, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Bat Poet
Randall Jarrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Battle for Christmas
Stephen Nissenbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Battle for Skandia
John A. Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Battle of Jericho
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Battle of Nospherus (The Guin Saga, #3)
Kaoru Kurimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

The Beach
Alex Garland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Beach at Summerly
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Beach House
James Patterson, Peter de Jonge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Beach House (Beach House, #1)
Mary Alice Monroe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Beach Trees
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Beadworkers
Beth Piatote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bean Eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Carolyn Chute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Beantown Girls
Jane Healey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Bear
Andrew Krivak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Bear and the Dragon
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Bear Looked Over The Mountain
Kit Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Alice Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Beast
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Beast in the Garden
David Baron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

The Beast Within
Serena Valentino

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Beast Within (Villains, #2)
Serena Valentino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Beatles
Bob Spitz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The Beatryce Prophecy
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Beautiful
Renée Ahdieh

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Beautiful Ashes (Broken Destiny, #1)
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Beautiful Ones
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Beautiful People
Michelle Gable

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Beautiful Side of Evil
Johanna Michaelsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982