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Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The Bacchae

by Euripides

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

The Bean Trees

by Barbara Kingsolver

The Beast in the Jungle

by Henry James

Bel Canto

by Ann Patchett

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Ben-Hur

by Lew Wallace

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville

Beowulf

by Anonymous

Bertrand Russell

by Anonymous

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

Big, Two-Hearted River

by Ernest Hemingway

Billy Budd

by Herman Melville

Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

Birth of a Nation

by D. W. Griffith

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Black Boy

by Richard Wright

Black Elk Speaks

by John Gneisenau Niehardt

Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin

The Black Prince

by Iris Murdoch

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya

Bless the Beasts and Children

by Glendon Swarthout

Blue and Brown Books

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

The Book of the City of Ladies

by Christine de Pizan

A Border Passage

by Leila Ahmed

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Bread Givers

by Anzia Yezierska

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Breath, Eyes, Memory

by Edwidge Danticat

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Babel Tower

by A. S. Byatt

Babette?s Feast

by Isak Dinesen

Baby Be-Bop

by Francesca Lia Block

Babylon Boyz

by Jess Mowry

Babylon Revisited

by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott)

Back Roads

by Tawni O'Dell

Back Spin

by Harlan Coben

Back to the Bedroom

by Janet Evanovich

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

Bad Girls of the Bible

by Liz Curtis Higgs

Bad Influence

by Judith Ortiz Cofer

A Bad Man

by Stanley Elkin

The Bad Place

by Dean Koontz

Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

Baja Oklahoma

by Dan Jenkins

The Balcony

by Jean Genet

The Bald Soprano

by Eugene Ionesco

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

by Muriel Spark

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

by Carson McCullers

Balyet

by Patricia Wrightson

Bang the Drum Slowly

by Mark Harris

Banner in the Sky

by James Ramsey Ullman

The Baptism

by Amiri Baraka

Barabbas

by Par Lagerkvist

The Barber of Seville

by Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais

Barbie Doll

by Marge Piercy

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

Barn Burning

by William Faulkner

The Barnum Museum

by Steven Millhauser

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino

Barrio Boy

by Ernesto Galarza

The Basic Kafka

by Franz Kafka

The Basketball Diaries

by Jim Carroll

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

The Bat Poet

by Randall Jarrell

Bats Fly at Dusk

by Erle Stanley Gardner as A. A. Fair

Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee

by Patricia Beatty

Beach Music

by Pat Conroy

The Beach

by Alex Garland

The Beacon at Alexandria

by Gillian Bradshaw

The Beak of the Finch

by Jonathan Weiner

Bear and His Daughter

by Robert Stone

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

by William Kotzwinkle

The Bear

by William Faulkner

Bearing the Cross

by David Garrow

The Bearkeeper's Daughter

by Gillian Bradshaw

Bearstone

by Will Hobbs

Beast

by Peter Benchley

The Beasties

by William Sleator

Beat Movement

by Anonymous

Beat to Quarters

by C. S. Forester

Beating the Street

by Peter Lynch

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beautiful Losers

by Barbara Wersba

Beautiful Losers

by Leonard Cohen

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

by Edmund White

Beautiful Senoritas

by Dolores Prida

The Beautiful Side of Evil

by Johanna Michaelsen

Beauty

by Robin McKinley

Beauty's Punishment

by Anne Rice

Beauty's Release

by Anne Rice

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

Becket, or the Honor of God

by Jean Anouilh

Bedford Square

by Anne Perry

Bedrock

by Lisa Alther

The Bedroom Philosophers

by Marquis de Sade

Bedtime Story

by George MacBeth

Bee Season: A Novel

by Myla Goldberg

The Beet Queen

by Louise Erdrich

The Beet Queen

by Louise Erdrich

Before I Say Good-bye

by Mary Higgins Clark

The Beginning of Homewood

by John Edgar Wideman

The Beginning of Spring

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Begum's Fortune

by Jules Verne

Behind a Mask

by Louisa May Alcott

Behold a Pale Horse

by William Cooper

Being Invisible

by Thomas Berger

Being John Malkovich

by Spike Jonze

Being There

by Jerzy KosiƄski

Being with Henry

by Martha Brooks

Bel Canto: A Novel

by Ann Patchett

Belinda

by Maria Edgeworth

A Bell for Adano

by John Hersey

The Belle of Amherst

by William Luce

Belle Prater's Boy

by Ruth C. White

The Belle's Stratagem

by Hannah Cowley

Bellefleur

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Bells of Bleecker Street

by Valenti Angelo

The Belly of Paris

by Emile Zola

Ben

by Julius Lester

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

Bent

by Martin Sherman

Beowulf the Warrior

by Ian Serraillier

Beowulf the Warrior

by Ian Serraillier

Berlin Noir

by Philip Kerr

Beside the Ocean of Time

by George Mackay Brown

The Best and the Brightest

by David Halberstam

The Best of Roald Dahl

by Roald Dahl

The Best Years of Our Lives

by William Wyler

Betrayal in Death

by Nora Roberts

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

by Manuel Puig

Betsey Brown

by Ntozake Shange

Between the Acts

by Virginia Woolf

Beware of Pity

by Stefan Zweig

Beware of Ruins

by A. D. Hope

Beyond Culture

by Edward T. Hall

Beyond Dreams

by Marilyn Reynolds

Beyond the Horizon

by Eugene O'Neill

Beyond the Mango Tree

by Amy Bronwen Zemser

Beyond the Reef

by Todd Strasser

The Bhagavad Gita

by Anonymous

Bidwell Ghost

by Louise Erdrich

The Big Bad Wolf

by James Patterson

Big Black Good Man

by Richard Wright

Big Blonde

by Dorothy Parker

The Big Enchilada

by L. A. Morse

Big Fish

by Tim Burton

The Big Money

by John Dos Passos

The Big Money

by John Dos Passos

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

by Wallace Stegner

The Big Sea: An Autobiography

by Langston Hughes

The Big Sky

by A. B. Guthrie

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac

The Big Time

by Fritz Leiber

The Big Town

by Ring Lardner

Bildungsroman

by Anonymous

Billy Bathgate

by E. L. Doctorow

Biloxi Blues

by Neil Simon

Bingo

by Rita Mae Brown

The Bingo Palace

by Louise Erdrich

The Bingo Palace

by Louise Erdrich

Birches

by Robert Frost

Bird Bones and Wood Ash

by Charles de Lint

The Birds of Summer

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

by Gerald Durrell

The Birds

by Daphne du Maurier

Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

The Birth of Venus: A Novel

by Sarah Dunant

The Birthday Party

by Harold Pinter

Bitter Fruit

by Achmat Dangor

Bittersweet

by Danielle Steel

Bizou

by Norma Klein

Black and Blue: A Novel

by Anna Quindlen

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

The Black Cauldron

by Lloyd Alexander

Black Cherry Blues

by James Lee Burke

Black Cross

by Greg Iles

Black Dogs

by Ian (Russell) McEwan

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Black Friday

by James Patterson

Black Friday

by James Patterson

Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers

by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack

Black Hawk Down

by Mark Bowden

The Black Heralds

by Cesar Vallejo

Black House: A Novel

by Stephen King

The Black Ice

by Michael Connelly

Black Is My Favorite Color

by Bernard Malamud

The Black Marble

by Joseph Wambaugh

The Black Mountain

by Rex Stout

Black No More

by George S. Schuyler

Black Notice

by Patricia Cornwell

The Black Pearl

by Scott O'Dell

The Black Pearl

by Scott O'Dell

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

Black Sunday

by Thomas Harris

Black Tickets

by Jayne Anne Phillips

Black Wind

by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Blackberry Winter

by Robert Penn Warren

Blackberrying

by Sylvia Plath

The Blackboard Jungle

by Evan Hunter/Ed McBain

BlackJack

by Leon Garfield

Blacks

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Blade Runner

by Ridley Scott

Blessing the Boats

by Lucille Clifton

The Blessing Way

by Tony Hillerman (Anthony Grove Hillerman)

Blind Alley

by Iris Johansen

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Side

by Michael Lewis

The Blind Watchmaker

by Richard Dawkins

Blindness

by Jose Saramago

Blindness

by Jose Saramago

Bliss

by Katherine Mansfield

The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Blood and Chocolate

by Annette Curtis Klause

Blood and Honor

by W. E. B. Griffin

Blood and Sand

by Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Blood Brothers

by Elias Chacour

The Blood Latitudes

by William Harrison

Blood Music

by Greg Bear

Blood of Requited Love

by Manuel Puig

Blood of the Fold

by Terry Goodkind

Blood Oranges

by Lisel Mueller

Blood Relations

by Sharon Pollock

Blood Test

by Jonathan Kellerman

Blood Tie

by Mary Lee Settle

Blood Wedding

by Federico Garcia Lorca

Blood Work

by Michael Connelly

Blood-Burning Moon

by Jean Toomer

Bloodchild

by Octavia Butler

Bloodline

by Sidney Sheldon

Bloodsucking Fiends

by Christopher Moore

Bloody Bones

by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Bloody Chamber

by Angela Carter

The Bloody Crown of Conan

by Robert E. Howard

Bloomability

by Sharon Creech

Blue Adept

by Piers Anthony

Blue City

by Ross Macdonald (as Kenneth Millar)

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

by William Least Heat-Moon

The Blue Hotel

by Stephen Crane

The Blue Hotel

by Stephen Crane

Blue Moon

by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Blue Rim of Memory

by Denise Levertov

The Blue Room

by David Hare

Blue Surge

by Rebecca Gilman

The Blue Sword

by Robin McKinley

The Blue Sword

by Robin McKinley

Blue Willow

by Doris Gates

Blues Ain't No Mockingbird

by Toni Cade Bambara

Blues for an Alabama Sky

by Pearl Cleage

Blues for Silk Garcia

by Erika Tamar

The Blues I'm Playing

by Langston Hughes

The Boarded Window

by Ambrose Bierce

A Boat to Nowhere

by Maureen Crane Wartski

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float

by Farley Mowat

Body and Soul

by Frank Conroy

The Body Artist

by Don DeLillo

The Body Farm

by Patricia Cornwell

The Body of Christopher Creed

by Carol Plum-Ucci

The Body of Christopher Creed

by Carol Plum-Ucci

Body of Evidence

by Patricia Cornwell

Body of Evidence

by Patricia Cornwell

The Bodysnatchers

by Jack Finney

Boesman & Lena

by Athol Fugard

Bold Journey

by Charles Bohner

The Boleyn Inheritance

by Philippa Gregory

Bone

by Fae Myenne Ng

Bone

by Fae Myenne Ng

Bone

by Jeff Smith

Bone Dance

by Martha Brooks

Bone in the Throat

by Anthony Bourdain

The Bone People

by Keri Hulme

The Bone Wars

by Kathryn Lasky

Bone: Out from Boneville

by Jeff Smith

Bonnard's Garden

by Rick Barot

Bonnie and Clyde

by Arthur Penn

The Book of Bebb

by Frederick Buechner

The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Evidence

by John Banville

The Book of Merlyn

by T. H. White

The Book of Ruth

by Jane Hamilton

The Book of Skulls

by Robert Silverberg

The Book of Tea

by Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Three

by Lloyd Alexander

The Book Shop

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

The Bookseller of Kabul

by Asne Seierstad

Boomerang

by Barry Hannah

The Borderland of Sol

by Larry Niven

The Borning Room

by Paul Fleischman

Borrower of the Night

by Elizabeth Peters

The Botany of Desire

by Michael Pollan

Both Your Houses

by Maxwell Anderson

The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl (Margaret) Bainbridge

Boule de Suif

by Guy de Maupassant

The Bourne Identity

by Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Supremacy

by Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Robert Ludlum

Bowling Alone

by Robert D. Putnam

The Boxes

by William Sleator

A Boy and His Dog

by Harlan Ellison

A Boy Called H

by Kappa Senoh

Boy's Life

by Robert McCammon

The Boy

by Marilyn Hacker

Boys and Girls

by Alice Munro

The Boys in the Band

by Mart Crowley

Brand

by Henrik Ibsen

Brave Companions

by David McCullough

Bravo Two Zero

by Andy McNab

Brazzaville Beach: A Novel

by William Boyd

Brazzaville Teen-ager

by Bruce Jay Friedman

Bread

by Charles Norris

Break of Dark

by Robert Westall

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast on Pluto

by Patrick McCabe

The Breast

by Philip Roth

Breathing Lessons

by Anne Tyler

The Brethren

by John Grisham

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong

Brian's Winter

by Gary Paulsen

Briar Rose

by Jane Yolen

Briar Rose

by Jane Yolen

Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

The Bride of Lammermoor

by Sir Walter Scott

The Bride Price

by Buchi Emecheta

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

The Bridge of Lost Desire

by Samuel R. Delany

The Bridge on the Drina

by Ivo Andric

The Bridges of Madison County

by Robert James Waller

Bridget Jones's Diary

by Helen Fielding

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

Brief Lives

by Neil Gaiman

Bright and Morning Star

by Richard Wright

Bright Lights, Big City

by Jay Mclnerney

Brightness Falls

by Jay Mclnerney

Brighton Beach Memoirs

by Neil Simon

Brighton Rock

by Graham Greene

Bringing Up Baby

by Howard Hawks

Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

The Broker

by John Grisham

The Bronze Bow

by Elizabeth George Speare

The Bronze Bow

by Elizabeth George Speare

The Bronze King

by Suzy McKee Charnas

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace

Brother Odd

by Dean Koontz

The Brothers K

by David James Duncan

Brown Girl Brownstones

by Paule Marshall

Brown Girl, Brownstones

by Paule Marshall

Brownies

by ZZ Packer

The Browning Version

by Terence Rattigan

Bruchko

by Bruce Olson

Bud Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Buddenbrooks

by Thomas Mann

The Buddha of Suburbia

by Hanif Kureishi

Bug Jack Barron

by Norman Spinrad

Bugles in the Afternoon

by Ernest Haycox

Bull Run

by Paul Fleischman

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

by Robert Cormier

The Burden of Proof

by Scott Turow

Burger's Daughter

by Nadine Gordimer

The Burglar in the Library

by Lawrence Block

Buried Child

by Sam Shepard

Buried Onions

by Gary Soto

Buried Onions

by Gary Soto

Burmese Days

by George Orwell

Burn This

by Lanford Wilson

Burning

by Diane Johnson

Burning Chrome

by William Gibson

The Burning of Njal

by Henry Treece

Burnt Offerings

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Burr

by Gore Vidal

Bus Stop

by William Inge

The Bushwhacked Piano

by Thomas McGuane

Business

by Victor Hernandez Cruz

Busman's Honeymoon

by Dorothy L. Sayers

By Love Possessed

by James Gould Cozzens

By the Rivers of Babylon

by Nelson DeMille

By the Sword

by Mercedes Lackey

By Way of Deception

by Victor Ostrovsky