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Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey is Mort Walker's American newspaper comic strip, debuting September 4, 1950 via King Features. The lazy private of Camp Swampy, originally a college student, was banned by Stars and Stripes in 1954 and now runs under Walker's sons.
Before I Fall
Before I Fall is a 2010 young adult novel by Lauren Oliver about a popular high school senior who relives the day of her death six times.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Kōhi ga Samenai Uchi ni) is a 2015 Japanese novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi about a Tokyo café where time travel is possible.
Before the Throne
Before the Throne (أمام العرش, Amam al-'Arsh) is a 1983 book by Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz in which Egypt's rulers, from pharaohs to Anwar Sadat, are tried before a divine court.
Bel Canto (novel)
Bel Canto (2001) is Ann Patchett's fourth novel, a loose fictionalization of the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, following soprano Roxane Coss and captors and captives; winner of the PEN/Faulkner and Orange prizes.
Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami ("Dear Friend") is Guy de Maupassant's second realist novel, serialized in Gil-Blas in 1885, tracing Georges Duroy's opportunistic rise from penniless ex-soldier to Parisian newspaper director via seduction and marriage.
Belenggu
Belenggu (Shackles) is a 1940 novel by the Indonesian author Armijn Pane, telling of a love triangle between a doctor, his wife, and his childhood friend.
Bella Swan
Bella Swan is the narrator-protagonist of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels (2005 onward), a Phoenix teenager who moves to Forks, Washington, loves vampire Edward Cullen, and is played by Kristen Stewart in the five 2008-2012 films.
Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix Lestrange (ベラトリックス・レストレンジ), née Black, is a Harry Potter Death Eater, sister of Andromeda and Narcissa, wife of Rodolphus, Voldemort's most devoted follower, killed by Molly Weasley; portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter.
Belle du Seigneur
Belle du Seigneur is a 1968 French novel by Albert Cohen about the adulterous love between Solal and Ariane in Geneva, which won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Bellum Punicum
Bellum Punicum, also spelled Bellum Poenicum, was an epic poem in Latin by Gnaeus Naevius on the First Punic War of 264 to 241 BC, surviving in about 60 fragments.
Beloved (novel)
Beloved is Toni Morrison's 1987 novel, her fifth and first historical novel, about Sethe, a formerly enslaved Ohio woman haunted by the daughter she killed. Based on the 1856 Margaret Garner case, it won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod
"Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod" (A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem) is an 1851 poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written a year after General Józef Bem's death.
Ben 10 (comic series)
Ben 10 is Dynamite Entertainment's 2026 comic series retelling the Cartoon Network franchise's origin, plotted by original creators Man of Action with scripts by Joe Casey and art by Robert Carey, a darker serialized take whose first issue sold out an 82,000 print run.
Ben Sana Mecburum
Ben Sana Mecburum ("I Am Bound to You") is a 1960 poetry collection by Turkish poet Attilâ İlhan, whose title poem's opening line has entered everyday recitation in Turkey.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Lew Wallace's 1880 Harper & Brothers novel set in first-century Judea and Antioch, follows Judah Ben-Hur's betrayal, enslavement, revenge, and conversion alongside the life of Jesus; it became the era's best-selling American novel and spawned major stage and film adaptations.
Bene Gesserit
Bene Gesserit: the all-women sisterhood of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), combining spies, nuns, scientists, and theologians; known for the Kwisatz Haderach breeding program, the Voice, Other Memory, and the Missionaria Protectiva, distinct from the DUNE neutrino experiment.
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath's IDW cozy-horror comic (2023), follows serial-killer bear Samantha Strong in the Busytown-like town of Woodbrook; its sequel is Rite of Spring (2025).
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, a six-issue IDW Dark cozy-horror comic (July 2025–March 2026) by Patrick Horvath, sequel to Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, following Monica's search for Samantha Strong's victim.
Beng ü Bade
Beng ü Bade (Bəngü-Badə) is an allegorical mathnawi of 444 couplets by the poet Fuzuli, written in Azerbaijani between 1510 and 1524, in which hashish and wine debate their superiority.
Bengali autobiography
A Bengali autobiography is a life narrative written in Bengali, as the full autobiography (ātmacarit, আত্মজীবনী) or the memoir (smṛtikathā), emerging as a distinct genre in the late nineteenth century.
Bengali detective fiction
Bengali detective fiction (Bangla goyenda kahini, বাংলা গোয়েন্দা কাহিনি) is the tradition of detective stories in Bengali, begun in colonial Calcutta and known for Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda.
Bengali essay
The Bengali essay, known in Bengali as probondho, is a prose form built on argument and analysis, first established by Raja Rammohan Roy in the early 19th century.
Bengali ghost story
A Bengali ghost story, or bhuter golpo (ভূতের গল্প), is Bengali-language fiction about ghosts and the supernatural, a written tradition since the late eighteenth century that includes tales by Rabindranath Tagore.
Bengali historical novel
The Bengali historical novel (ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যাস, oitihashik uponyash) is a Bengali-language novel set in a past era, whose defining form came from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Durgeshnandini (1865).
Bengali liberation war literature
Bengali liberation war literature (মুক্তিযুদ্ধভিত্তিক সাহিত্য) is fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and essay written in Bangla about the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, in which East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh.
Bengali memoir
A Bengali memoir (স্মৃতিকথা, smritikatha) is a first-person Bengali prose narrative focused on specific periods, relationships, or themes, a tradition reaching back to Rassundari Devi's 1876 Amar Jiban.
Bengali short story
The Bengali short story (ছোটগল্প, chhotogalpo) is a brief prose narrative presenting a single slice of life, whose modern form began with Rabindranath Tagore's stories of the 1890s.
Bengali social novel
The Bengali social novel (সামাজিক উপন্যাস) is a Bengali-language novel depicting the life, conflicts, and customs of contemporary society, the dominant tradition of Bengali literature, exemplified by Sarat Chandra's Grihadaha.
Bengali travel literature
Bengali travel literature, known as bhramankahini, is the body of travel writing in the Bengali language, popularized in the 1870s and 1880s after the Suez Canal opened in 1869.