Bring Up the Bodies
Thomas Cromwell sets out to destroy Anne Boleyn, building a case from rumor and revenge while Henry VIII waits to marry Jane Seymour.
2,066-word summary · 9 min read
Books: B
140 books starting with B.
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Brisingr
Eragon rescues Katrina, backs a dwarf king, and earns a burning sword.
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Britt-Marie Was Here
At 63, fussy Britt-Marie leaves her marriage after an affair and takes a youth soccer job in fading Borg, where grief, lists and new neighbours slowly change…
3,795-word summary · 17 min read
Broken Bonds
Oleander returns after five years on the run to face the five men she is bonded to, in J. Bree's 2021 opener of resentment, training, and slow trust.
2,582-word summary · 11 min read
Broken Harbor
A family is found slaughtered in a half-built Dublin estate where no one broke in, and star detective Scorcher Kennedy must explain the holes in the walls.
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Broken Prince
Reed loses Ella and ruins his name while rivals circle him.
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Brooklyn
Eilis Lacey leaves Enniscorthy for Brooklyn boarding house work, love with Tony, then a home death forces divided choice.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
A rhythmic animal parade teaches colors and names, from brown bear to schoolchildren.
3,226-word summary · 14 min read
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson retells her childhood in verse, moving from Ohio to South Carolina to Brooklyn while the civil rights movement reshapes the world around her.
2,727-word summary · 12 min read
Brutal Prince
Aida's small fire forces a marriage to Callum Griffin to stop a Chicago mob war neither wants.
2,042-word summary · 9 min read
Bud, Not Buddy
A ten year old orphan in the Depression walks to find a jazzman he thinks is his father.
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
Bully
Tate returns from France to face Jared, the boy who bullied her for years and still will not leave her alone.
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Bunny
Lonely MFA Samantha joins pastel Bunnies who make more than art.
2,110-word summary · 9 min read
Burial Rites
Condemned for murder in 1829 Iceland, Agnes Magnusdottir spends her final winter on a crowded farm while a young priest listens to her story.
2,976-word summary · 13 min read
Burned
Zoey's soul hides in the Otherworld while Stark must die to fetch her and Stevie Rae burns secrets.
2,074-word summary · 9 min read
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown's 1970 retelling of the American West from the point of view of the people it destroyed.
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Bury Your Dead
Recovering from a failed raid that killed his officers, Gamache investigates a murder in a Quebec City library while Beauvoir reopens a case in Three Pines.
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Butcher & Blackbird
Two rival killers who only murder other killers meet once a year for a deadly contest, then slowly fall for each other in this dark romantic comedy.
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By a Thread
A sharp assistant trains her grumpy fashion boss in manners and desire.
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Pilar, 29, meets her childhood friend again in Madrid and finds a rumored miracle worker. One winter week through the Pyrenees to the river Piedra, and the…
2,845-word summary · 13 min read