Fiction work(s) |
Film adaptation(s)
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Baby Love (1968), Tina Chad Christian
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Baby Love (1968)
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Babylon Babies (1999), Maurice Georges Dantec
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Babylon A.D. (2008)
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Back Street (1931), Fannie Hurst
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Back Street (1932)
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Back Street (1941)
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Back Street (1961)
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Back When We Were Grownups (2001), Anne Tyler
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Back When We Were Grownups (2004)
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Background to Danger (1937) (a. k. a. Uncommon Danger), Eric Ambler
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Background to Danger (1943)
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Bad Girl (1928), Viña Delmar
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Bad Girl (1931)
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The Bad Seed (1954), William March
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The Bad Seed (1956)
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The Bad Seed (1985)[N 1]
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The Bad Seed (2018)[N 1]
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Baise-moi (1993), Virginie Despentes
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Baise-moi (2000)
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The Bait (1968), Dorothy Uhnak
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The Bait (1973)[N 1]
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The Ballad of Cat Ballou (1956), Roy Chanslor
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Cat Ballou (1965)
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The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man (1965), Guy Owen
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The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
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The Flim-Flam Man (1969)[N 1]
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The Ballad of the Running Man (1961), Shelley Smith
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The Running Man (1963)
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (French: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) (2000), Dai Sijie
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
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Band of Angels (1955), Robert Penn Warren
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Band of Angels (1957)
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The Bandits of Bombay (Bengali: বোম্বাইয়ের বোম্বেটে, Bombaiyer Bombete) (1976), Satyajit Ray
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Bombaiyer Bombete (2003)
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Bank Shot (1972), Donald E. Westlake
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Bank Shot (1974)
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Banner in the Sky (1900), James Ramsey Ullman
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Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
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The Barefoot Mailman (1943), Theodore Pratt
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The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
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Basil of Baker Street (1958), Eve Titus
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The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
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Battle Cry (1953), Leon Uris
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Battle Cry (1955)
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1963), Rumer Godden
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
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Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru) (1999), Koushun Takami
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Battle Royale (2000)
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Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌, Batoru Rowaiaru Tsū: "Rekuiemu") (2003)
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Battlefield Earth (1982), L. Ron Hubbard
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Be Cool (1999), Elmore Leonard
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Be Cool (2005)
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Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), Elizabeth Kata
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A Patch of Blue (1965)
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Be Still, My Love (1947), June Truesdell
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The Accused (1949)
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The Beach (1996), Alex Garland
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The Beach (2000)
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Beaches (1985), Iris Rainer Dart
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Beaches (1988)
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The Beardless Warriors (1960), Richard Matheson
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The Young Warriors (1967)
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Beast (1991), Peter Benchley
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The Beast (1996)[N 1]
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The Beast in Man (French: La Bête humaine) (1890), Émile Zola
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Die Bestie im Menschen (1921)
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La Bête Humaine (1938)
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Human Desire (1954)
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La Bestia humana (1954)
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Cruel Train (1995)[N 1]
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The Beast in the Heart (Italian: La bestia nel cuore) (2003), Cristina Comencini
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Don't Tell (Italian: La bestia nel cuore) (2005)
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The Beast Master (1959), Andre Norton
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The Beastmaster (1982)
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Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
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Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996) (TV)
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The Beast Must Die (1938), Cecil Day-Lewis[N 6]
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The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir) (1952)
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This Man Must Die (French: Que la bête meure) (1969)
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The Beast Within (1981), Edward Levy
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The Beast Within (1982)
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Beat the Devil (1951), Claud Cockburn[N 7]
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Beat the Devil (1953)
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Beau Brocade (1907), Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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Beau Brocade (1916)
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Beau Geste (1924), P. C. Wren
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Beau Geste (1926)
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Beau Sabreur (1928)
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Beau Ideal (1931)
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Beau Geste (1939)
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Beau Geste (1966)
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
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Beau Ideal (1927), P. C. Wren
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same as above
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Beau Sabreur (1926), P. C. Wren
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Beautiful Creatures (2009), Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
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Bedelia (1945), Vera Caspary
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Bedelia (1946)
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Bee Season (2000), Myla Goldberg
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Bee Season (2005)
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Beer and Blood: The Story of a Couple o' Wrong Guys (1930), John Bright and Kubec Glasmon
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The Public Enemy (1931)
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Before the Fact (1932), Anthony Berkeley Cox[N 8]
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Suspicion (1941)
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The Beginning and the End (Arabic: بداية ونهاية, romanized: Bidaya wa Nihaya) (1960), Naguib Mahfouz
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Bidaya wa Nihaya (1960)
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Behind That Curtain (1928), Earl Derr Biggers
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Behind That Curtain (1929)
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Being There (1971), Jerzy Kosinski
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Being There (1979)
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Bel-Ami (1885), Guy de Maupassant
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Bel Ami (1939)
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
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Bel Ami (2005)[N 1]
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Bel Ami (2012)
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Belle de Jour (1928), Joseph Kessel
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Belle de Jour (1967)
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Belli Moda (Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳಿಮೋಡ) (1961), Anasuya Shankar[N 9]
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Belli Moda (1967)
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Swapnabhoomi (Malayalam: സ്വപ്നഭൂമി) (1967)
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Bellman and True (1975), Desmond Lowden
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Bellman and True (1987)
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Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison
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Beloved (1998)
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Belphégor (1927), Arthur Bernède
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Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001)
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), Lew Wallace
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Ben-Hur (1925)
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Ben-Hur (1959)
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Ben Hur (2003)[N 4]
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Ben-Hur (2016)
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Benjamin Blake (1941), Edison Marshall
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
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Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
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Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD), unknown
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Beowulf (1999)
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Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
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Beowulf (2007)
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin
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Berlin — Alexanderplatz (1931)
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
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The Betsy (1971), Harold Robbins
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The Betsy (1978)
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Beyond the Forest: The Story of a Man and Woman Destroyed by Love (1948), Stuart D. Engstrand
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Beyond the Forest (1949)
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Beyond This Place (1953), A. J. Cronin
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Sabar Uparey (1955)
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Kala Pani (1958)
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Beyond This Place (1959)
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Poola Rangadu (1967)
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En Annan (1970)
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The BFG (1982), Roald Dahl
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The BFG (1989)
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The BFG (2016)
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Bhowani Junction (1954), John Masters
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Bhowani Junction (1956)
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Bid Time Return (1975), Richard Matheson
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
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The Bilingual Lover (Spanish: El amante bilingüe) (1990), Juan Marsé
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The Bilingual Lover (1993)
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The Big Bounce (written 1966, published 1969), Elmore Leonard
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The Big Bounce (1969)
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The Big Bounce (2004)
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The Big Clock (1946), Kenneth Fearing
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The Big Clock (1948)
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No Way Out (1987)
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Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998), Daniel Wallace
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Big Fish (2003)
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The Big Fisherman (1948), Lloyd C. Douglas
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The Big Fisherman (1959)
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The Big Heat (1952), William P. McGivern
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The Big Heat (1953)
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Big Red (1945), Jim Kjelgaard
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Big Red (1962)
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The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler
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The Big Sleep (1946)
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The Big Sleep (1978)
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Big Trouble (1999), Dave Barry
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Big Trouble (2002)
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Biggles (1932–1968) (series), W. E. Johns
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Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
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Billion-Dollar Brain (1966), Len Deighton
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
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Billy Bathgate (1989), E. L. Doctorow
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Billy Bathgate (1991)
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Billy Liar (1969), Keith Waterhouse
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Billy Liar (1963)
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Birdy (1978), William Wharton
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Birdy (1984)
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The Bishop's Wife (1928), Robert Nathan
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The Bishop's Wife (1947)
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The Preacher's Wife (1996)
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The Bitch (1979), Jackie Collins
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The Bitch (1979)
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Bitter Moon (French: Lunes de fiel) (1981), Pascal Bruckner
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Bitter Moon (1992)
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Grace Zaring Stone
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
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Black Alibi (1942), Cornell Woolrich
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The Leopard Man (1943)
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The Black Angel (1943), Cornell Woolrich
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Black Angel (1946)
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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888), Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Black Arrow (1911)
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The Black Arrow (1943)
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Black Arrow (1985)[N 1]
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The Black Arrow (Russian: Чёрная стрела) (1987)
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The Black Arrow (1988)[N 1]
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Black Beauty (1877), Anna Sewell
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Your Obedient Servant (1917)
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Black Beauty (1921)
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Black Beauty (1933)
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Black Beauty (1946)
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Courage of Black Beauty (1958)
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Black Beauty (1971)
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Black Beauty (1987)[N 1]
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Black Beauty (1994)
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Black Beauty (1995)[N 4]
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Black Beauty (2020)
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The Black Camel (1929), Earl Derr Biggers
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The Black Camel (1931)
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The Black Curtain (1941), Cornell Woolrich
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Street of Chance (1942)
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The Black Dahlia (1987), James Ellroy
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
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Black Narcissus (1939), Rumer Godden
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Black Narcissus (1947)
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The Black Path of Fear (1944), Cornell Woolrich
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The Chase (1946)
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Black Rain (黒い雨, Kuroi Ame) (1965), Masuji Ibuse
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Black Rain (1989)
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The Black Rose (1945), Thomas B. Costain
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The Black Rose (1950)
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The Black Stallion (1941–1989) (series)[N 10], Walter Farley
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The Black Stallion (1979)
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The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
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The Young Black Stallion (2003)
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Black Sunday (1971), Thomas Harris
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Black Sunday (1977)
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The Blackboard Jungle (1954), Evan Hunter
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Blackboard Jungle (1955)
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Blackbeard's Ghost (1965), Ben Stahl
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Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
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The Blank Wall (1947), Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
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The Deep End (2001)
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Blaze of Noon (1946), Ernest K. Gann
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Blaze of Noon (1947)
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Le Blé en herbe (1923), Colette
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Le Blé en herbe (1954)
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Le Blé en herbe (1990) (TV)
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Bleak House (serialised 1852–1853, published as a book 1853), Charles Dickens
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Bleak House (1920)
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Bleak House (1922)
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Bless the Beasts and Children (1970), Glendon Swarthout
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Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)
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Bless the Child (1993), Cathy Cash Spellman
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Bless the Child (2000)
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The Blessing (1951), Nancy Mitford
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Count Your Blessings (1959)
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Blood and Chocolate (1997), Annette Curtis Klause
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Blood & Chocolate (2007)
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Blood and Sand (Spanish: Sangre y arena) (1909), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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Blood and Sand (1916)
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Blood and Sand (1922)
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Blood and Sand (1941)
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Blood and Sand (1989)
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Blood Brother (1947), Elliott Arnold
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Broken Arrow (1950)
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Blood on the Moon (1941) (a.k.a. Gunman's Chance), Luke Short
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Blood on the Moon (1948)
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Blood on the Moon (1984), James Ellroy
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Cop (1988)
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The Blood Oranges (1970), John Hawkes
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The Blood Oranges (1997)
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Blood Red Rivers (French: Les rivières pourpres) (1997), Jean-Christophe Grangé
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The Crimson Rivers (2000)
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (French: Les rivières pourpres II: Les anges de l'apocalypse) (2004)
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Blood Work (1998), Michael Connelly
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Blood Work (2002)
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Blue Boy (French: Jean le Bleu) (1932), Jean Giono
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The Baker's Wife (French: La femme du boulanger) (1938)
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Blue Fin (1969), Colin Thiele
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Blue Fin (1978)
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The Blue Lagoon (1908), Henry De Vere Stacpoole
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The Blue Lagoon (1923)
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The Blue Lagoon (1949)
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
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The Blue Room (French: La Chambre bleue) (1964), Georges Simenon
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The Blue Room (Spanish: La habitación azul) (2002)
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Blueprint (German: Blaupause) (1999), Charlotte Kerner
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Blueprint (2003)
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The Body (1983), Richard Sapir
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The Body (2001)
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The Body Snatchers (1955), Jack Finney
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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Body Snatchers (1993)
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The Invasion (2007)
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Invasion of the Pod People (2007)[N 4]
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Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926), Roy Rockwood
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Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Tom Wolfe
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
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Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) (1954), Françoise Sagan
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Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
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Bonjour Tristesse (2024)
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Boogiepop and Others (1998), Kouhei Kadono
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Boogiepop and Others (2000)
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The Book of Daniel (1971), E. L. Doctorow
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Daniel (1983)
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The Boat (German: Das Boot) (1973), Lothar-Günther Buchheim
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Das Boot (The Boat) (1981)
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The Border Jumpers (1955), Will C. Brown
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Man of the West (1958)
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The Border Legion (1916), Zane Grey
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The Border Legion (1924)
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The Last Round-Up (1934)
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Border Town (1934), Carroll Graham
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Bordertown (1935)
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The Borrowers (1952), Mary Norton
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The Borrowers (1973)[N 1]
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The Borrowers (1997)
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Arrietty (2010)
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The Bostonians (serialised 1885–1886, published as a book 1886), Henry James
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The Bostonians (1984)
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Botchan (Japanese: 坊っちゃん) (1906), Natsume Sōseki
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Botchan (1935)
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Botchan (1953)
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Botchan (1958)
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Botchan (1966)
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Botchan (1977)
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Botchan (1980)[N 1]
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Bourne (1980–2012) (series)[N 11], Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader
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The Bourne Identity (1988)[N 1]
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
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Jason Bourne (2016)
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), John Boyne
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
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Boy on a Dolphin (1955), David Divine
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Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
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The Boys from Brazil (1976), Ira Levin
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The Boys from Brazil (1978)
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The Bravados (1958), Frank O'Rourke
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The Bravados (1958)
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The Brave Bulls (1949), Thomas C. Lea III
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The Brave Bulls (1951)
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The Brave Cowboy (1956), Edward Abbey
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Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
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The Brave Little Toaster (1986), Thomas M. Disch
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The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997)[N 4]
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998)[N 4]
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1988), Thomas M. Disch
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same as above
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Brave New World (1932), Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World (1980)[N 1]
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Brave New World (1998)[N 1]
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Breakfast of Champions (1973), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
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Breakfast on Pluto (1998), Patrick McCabe
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
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Breakfast with Scot (1999), Michael Downing
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Breakfast with Scot (2007)
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Breakheart Pass (1974), Alistair MacLean
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Breakheart Pass (1975)
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Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse (1966), Paul St. Pierre
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Smith! (1969)
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The Bride Wore Black (1940), Cornell Woolrich
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The Bride Wore Black (1967)
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Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (1945), Evelyn Waugh
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), Thornton Wilder
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
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The Bridge over the River Kwai (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) (1952), Pierre Boulle
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Bridge to Terabithia (1977), Katherine Paterson
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Bridge to Terabithia (1985)[N 1]
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953), James A. Michener
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953)
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The Bridges of Madison County (a. k. a. Love in Black and White) (1992), Robert James Waller
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
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Bridget Jones (1996–2016) (series)[N 12], Helen Fielding
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Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
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Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
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Bright Lights, Big City (1984), Jay McInerney
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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
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Brighton Rock (1938), Graham Greene
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Brighton Rock (1948)
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Brighton Rock (2010)
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Bringing Out the Dead (1998), Joe Connelly
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
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Broken April (1978), Ismail Kadare
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Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun) (2001)
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Brothers by Blood (Norwegian: Brødre i Blodet) (1996), Ingvar Ambjørnsen
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Elling (2001)
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Mors Elling (2003)
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Elsk meg i morgen (2005)
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Brothers in Law (1955), Henry Cecil
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Brothers in Law (1957)
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The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy) (1880), Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
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Brown's Requiem (1981), James Ellroy
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Brown's Requiem (1998)
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Buddwing (1964), Evan Hunter
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Mister Buddwing (1966)
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Buffalo Girls (1990), Larry McMurtry
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Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) (mini)
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Buffalo Soldiers (1993), Robert O'Connor
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Buffalo Soldiers (2003)
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Bump in the Night (1988), Isabelle Holland
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Bump in the Night (1991)[N 1]
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The Burglar in the Closet (1978), Lawrence Block
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Burglar (1987)
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The Burmese Harp (Japanese: ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no tategoto) (1946), Michio Takeyama
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The Burmese Harp (1956)
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The Burmese Harp (1985)
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The Burning Hills (1956), Louis L'Amour
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The Burning Hills (1956)
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The Burning Shore (1985), Wilbur Smith
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Burning Shore (1991)
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Burton and Speke (1982), William Harrison
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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
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The Busy Body (1966), Donald E. Westlake
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The Busy Body (1967)
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But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1927), Anita Loos
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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
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BUtterfield 8 (1935), John O'Hara
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BUtterfield 8 (1960)
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By the Great Horn Spoon! (1963), Sid Fleischman
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
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