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Read-Alikes for Books Starting with B

396 books starting with "b"

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  • A Beautiful Mind
    A Beautiful Mind : The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
    by Sylvia Nasar
    Hardcover: Jun 1998
    Paperback: Dec 2001
     
    'A brilliant book -- at once a powerful and moving biography of a great mathematical genius and an important contribution to American intellectual history.'
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  • A Beautiful Place to Die
    A Beautiful Place to Die : A Novel
    by Malla Nunn
    Hardcover: Jan 2009
    Paperback: Oct 2009
     
    A stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.
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  • A Better Angel
    A Better Angel : Stories
    by Chris Adrian
    Hardcover: Aug 2008
    Paperback: Jul 2009
     
    The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways - by turns heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic.
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  • A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
    A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
    by Mahogany L. Browne
    Hardcover: Mar 2025
     
    In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst fear and loss, these New York City teens prevail with ...
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  • A Bit of Difference
    A Bit of Difference
    by Sefi Atta
    Paperback: Dec 2012
     
    A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
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  • A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
    A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories
    by Amy Bloom
    Hardcover: Jul 2000
    Paperback: Jul 2001
     
    Transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
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  • A Bookshop in Berlin
    A Bookshop in Berlin : The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
    by Francoise Frenkel
    Hardcover: Dec 2019
    Paperback: Aug 2020
     
    "A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer's Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-...
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  • A Breath of Fresh Air
    A Breath of Fresh Air
    by Amulya Malladi
    Hardcover: Jun 2002
    Paperback: Jun 2003
     
    On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city ...
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