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Black And White
Paul Volponi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Black Beauty
Anna Sewell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1877

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Blackberry Picking
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Blackbird House
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Cat
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Peter Balakian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Black Elk Speaks
John Neihardt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1932

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

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

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel
Jayne Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Blackouts
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Black Robe
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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

Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Sunday
Tola Rotimi Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Black Swan Green
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Blacktop Wasteland
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Blankets
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2003

Bleachers
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Blended
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Blindness
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Blind Your Ponies
Stanley Gordon West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Bliss
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Blizzard
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Blonde: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Blood
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Blood in the Water
Heather Ann Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Bloodmarked
Tracy Deonn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Blood of Elves
Transl. Danusia Stok, Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Blood on the River
Elisa Carbone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Bloom
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Blowout
Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Blubber
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

Bluebeard
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Bluefish
Pat Schmatz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Bob
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quiñonez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

Bone
Jeff Smith

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1991

Bone Gap
Laura Ruby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Booked
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Book Lovers
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book of Night
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Book Scavenger
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Bookshops & Bonedust
Travis Baldree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Borderlands La Frontera
Gloria E. Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Borders
Thomas King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

Borges and I
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Born a Crime
Trevor Noah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Born Behind Bars
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Born on a Blue Day
Daniel Tammet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Born on the Fourth of July
Ron Kovic

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

Born to Rock
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Born to Run: Biography
Bruce Springsteen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Bossypants
Tina Fey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Boule De Suif
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1880