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A Boy Called Bat
Elana K. Arnold, Illustr. Charles Santoso
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017
A Brief History Of Neoliberalism
David Harvey
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
Gwendolyn Brooks
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
Beauty and the Beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1740
Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinley
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
Patti Callahan Henry
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018
Becoming Muhammad Ali
James Patterson, Kwame Alexander
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015
Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Seymour Reit
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988
Being Heumann
Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014