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Borodino
Borodino (Бородино) is an 1837 narrative poem by Mikhail Lermontov, in which an old soldier recalls the 1812 Battle of Borodino; it made his literary fame.
Boromir
Boromir, son of Denethor II, is a Tolkien character: Gondorian captain, Fellowship of the Ring member, tempted by the One Ring, redeemed dying defending Merry and Pippin; played by Sean Bean in 2001.
Borstal Boy
Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical novel by the Irish writer Brendan Behan, recounting his 1939 arrest in Liverpool and three years in English borstal institutions.
Bosnian Chronicle
Bosnian Chronicle (Travnička hronika), also published as The Days of the Consuls, is a 1945 historical novel by Ivo Andrić set in Travnik from 1807 to 1814, when French and Austrian consuls served under Ottoman viziers.
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Award is an annual American literary prize for children's and young adult literature, presented since 1967 by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine.
Bot lakhon
Bot lakhon (บทละคร) is the written text of a Thai drama, the script of dialogue and staging conventions behind genres including khon, lakon nai, nang talung, and likay.
Botchan
Botchan (坊っちゃん) is a comic 1906 novel by Natsume Sōseki about a Tokyo mathematics teacher whose short-lived post in Matsuyama draws on the author's own experience.
Bottom of the Wave
Bottom of the Wave (Qararat al-Mawja) is the third poetry collection of the Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika, published in Beirut in 1957 during the rise of Arabic free verse.
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki (弱キャラ友崎くん)
弱キャラ友崎くん (Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki) is a Japanese school rom-com light novel series by Yuki Yaku and Fly in Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko, 2016 to final volume Lv.12 (October 2026), about gamer Fumiya Tomozaki coached in life by Aoi Hinami; adapted into a manga and two anime seasons.
Bourne (novel series)
The Bourne novel series features Jason Bourne, alias of CIA agent David Webb. Ludlum wrote three originals (1980-1990); Lustbader continued it from 2004, then Brian Freeman rebooted it from 2020, totaling 22 books.
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Bouvard and Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published posthumously in 1881. It follows two Paris copy clerks who retire to Normandy and fail at mastering every branch of knowledge.
Bovo-bukh
Bovo-bukh, also known as Bovo d'Antona, is a chivalric romance in Old Yiddish verse by Elia Levita, regarded as the first secular work written in Yiddish.
Boxer (Animal Farm)
Boxer is the loyal carthorse in Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), motto 'I will work harder', an allegory of the exploited Soviet working class, sold to the knacker after collapsing from overwork.
Boy (autobiography)
Boy: Tales of Childhood is Roald Dahl's 1984 autobiography covering his life from birth to leaving school, including Llandaff, St Peter's, Repton, the Great Mouse Plot, Cadbury's chocolate testing, and Norway holidays; continued in Going Solo.
Boy Erased: A Memoir
Boy Erased: A Memoir is Garrard Conley's 2016 Riverhead Books memoir of his 2004 stay at Love in Action, a Memphis conversion therapy program, later adapted into Joel Edgerton's 2018 film.
Boy Swallows Universe
Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton's semi-autobiographical 2018 debut novel, follows 12-year-old Eli Bell in 1980s Brisbane's heroin trade; million-copy bestseller adapted to stage and a 2024 Netflix series.
Braj Bhasha poetry
Braj Bhasha poetry (ब्रजभाषा काव्य) is verse composed in Braj Bhasha, a Western Hindi dialect and the chief poetic language of North India from the medieval period into the early twentieth century.
Brajangana
Brajangana Kavya (ব্রজাঙ্গনা কাব্য) is an 1861 collection of Bengali lyric poems by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, written on Radha's grief after Krishna's departure from Braj, and credited as the first ode in Bengali.
Bran Stark
Bran Stark is the second son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Isaac Hempstead-Wright. Paralyzed by Jaime Lannister in the first book, he becomes a warg and greenseer, succeeds the Three-Eyed Raven beyond the Wall, and is crowned Bran the Broken in the show's finale.
Bread and Wine
"Bread and Wine" (Brod und Wein) is a celebrated elegy by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, written in winter 1800/01, asking what poets are for in a destitute time.
Breakdown and Bereavement
Breakdown and Bereavement (Sheḥol ve-Kishalon) is a 1920 novel by Hebrew writer Yosef Haim Brenner, his last before his murder in the 1921 Jaffa riots.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)
Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's 1958 Random House novella about Holly Golightly in 1940s New York, told by an unnamed narrator; basis of the 1961 Audrey Hepburn film, with three stories bundled in the first edition.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, is Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 seventh novel, set in Midland City, where Pontiac dealer Dwayne Hoover meets science fiction writer Kilgore Trout; published by Delacorte, adapted to film in 1999.
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn is Stephenie Meyer's 2008 young-adult fantasy romance, the fourth and final Twilight Saga novel, published by Little, Brown; it follows Bella Swan's marriage, pregnancy, and transformation, sold 1.3 million copies in its first day, and was adapted as two films in 2011 and 2012.
Breasts and Eggs (乳と卵)
Breasts and Eggs (乳と卵) is Mieko Kawakami's 2007 Akutagawa Prize-winning novella, expanded into the novel Natsu monogatari (夏物語) and translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador, 2020), about Natsuko, Makiko, and Midoriko.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory is a 1994 debut novel by the Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, following Sophie Caco, a girl sent at twelve from rural Haiti to New York.
Breathturn
Breathturn (Atemwende) is a 1967 collection of 80 poems by Paul Celan, his sixth volume, published by Suhrkamp in Frankfurt am Main, marking the start of his late style.
Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions: 1902 comedic novel by George Barr McCutcheon (as Richard Greaves) in which Monty Brewster must spend $1 million in a year to inherit $7 million; adapted into a 1906 Broadway play and many films, most famously the 1985 Richard Pryor comedy requiring $30 million spent in 30 days.
Bride of the Barrier Master
Bride of the Barrier Master (結界師の一輪華, Kekkaishi no Ichirinka) is a Japanese fantasy romance light novel series by Kureha, illustrated by Bodax, published by Kadokawa Bunko since December 2021, with an Odayaka manga and a TROYCA anime adaptation.
Brides of Dracula
Brides of Dracula (1960) is a Hammer Films gothic horror sequel to Horror of Dracula, directed by Terence Fisher with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing; Dracula himself never appears, the villain being Baron Meinster (David Peel) after Christopher Lee declined the role.