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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, chronicles Charles Ryder's bond with the Catholic Flyte family; published by Chapman & Hall and the Book Society, adapted in the 1981 Granada serial and 2008 film.
Bridge to Terabithia (novel)
Bridge to Terabithia is Katherine Paterson's 1977 Newbery Medal-winning children's novel about Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke, whose imaginary woodland kingdom ends in Leslie's drowning; inspired by the lightning death of Lisa Hill.
Bridgerton (novel series)
Bridgerton is a series of eight historical romance novels by Julia Quinn, published between 2000 and 2006, following the eight Bridgerton siblings in Regency-era London.
Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones is Helen Fielding's fictional London singleton, first a mid-1990s Independent column, then the 1996 diary novel that founded chick lit, loosely based on Pride and Prejudice and adapted into four films starring Renée Zellweger.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (novel)
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is Helen Fielding's 2013 third Bridget Jones novel, in which the 51-year-old widow raises Mabel and Billy after Mark Darcy's death and dates the much younger Roxster; adapted into the 2025 Peacock film.
Brigands & Breadknives
Brigands & Breadknives, also titled Brigands and Breadknives, is Travis Baldree's 2025 third Legends & Lattes novel, following rattkin bookseller Fern on a road adventure with elf bounty hunter Astryx One-Ear and goblin Zyll; it is more action-heavy and less cozy than its predecessors.
Briggflatts
Briggflatts is a five-part autobiographical long poem by the British poet Basil Bunting, published in 1966, celebrating the Northumbrian landscape and hailed as his masterpiece and a key text of British modernism.
Bright Sunny Skies
Bright Sunny Skies (Yanyangtian, also translated as Bright Clouds) is a three-volume novel by the Chinese writer Hao Ran, published 1964–1966 and set in a suburban Beijing agricultural cooperative in 1957.
Brighton Rock (novel)
Brighton Rock (novel), Greene's 1938 Catholic crime thriller (Le Rocher de Brighton) set in Brighton: teenage gangster Pinkie Brown covers up reporter Hale's murder; Ida Arnold pursues him; filmed 1947 and 2010.
Brihannala
Brihannala (বৃহন্নলা) is the disguise name Arjuna took as a charioteer at the court of Virata during the thirteenth year of the Pandavas' exile in the Mahabharata.
Brihatkatha
Brihatkatha (बृहत्कथा), "the Great Story," is a lost Indian collection of tales attributed to the poet Gunadhya, composed in Paisachi Prakrit and known today only through later Sanskrit adaptations such as Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara.
Brihatsamhita
Brihatsamhita, meaning Great Compilation, is a sixth-century Sanskrit encyclopedia by the astronomer Varahamihira of Ujjain, covering about 4,000 verses on astronomy, astrology, weather, architecture, and gems, and valued as a historical source on early medieval India.
Brimstone (Hart novel)
Brimstone is a dark fantasy romance novel by Callie Hart, a #1 New York Times bestselling author. It is the second book in the Fae & Alchemy trilogy, published in 2025.
Bring in the Wine
"Bring in the Wine" (将进酒, Jiang Jin Jiu) is a famous drinking poem by the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, a classic of High Tang poetry.
Bring Up the Bodies
Bring Up the Bodies is Hilary Mantel's 2012 historical novel, second of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy after Wolf Hall, covering Anne Boleyn's fall from Cromwell's viewpoint; it won the 2012 Booker Prize and Costa Book of the Year.
Briseis (Βρισηΐς)
Briseis (Βρισηΐς), daughter of Brises, is Achilles' captive war prize in the Iliad, whose seizure by Agamemnon sparks the epic's quarrel; she speaks once, lamenting Patroclus in Book 19, and is later reimagined by Ovid, Barker, and Miller.
Broad and Alien Is the World
Broad and Alien Is the World (El mundo es ancho y ajeno) is a 1941 novel by the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, considered his masterpiece of indigenist narrative.
Broadside ballad
A broadside ballad is a narrative song printed on one side of a cheap sheet, sold for a penny in the streets of Britain from the sixteenth century onward.
Brokeback Mountain (short story)
Brokeback Mountain is Annie Proulx's 1997 New Yorker short story about Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, Wyoming ranch hands in a secret 20-year affair; collected in Close Range, it won a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry prize and inspired Ang Lee's 2005 film.
Broken Country
Broken Country is a 2025 historical novel by Clare Leslie Hall (also published as Clare Empson), her North American debut from Simon & Schuster. Set in Dorset across 1955, 1968, and a 1969 murder trial, it follows Beth Johnson's love triangle and grief; a Reese's Book Club pick.
Broken Glass
Broken Glass is the English title of Verre cassé (2005), the fifth novel by Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou, told by a former schoolteacher in a Brazzaville bar.
Broken Harbour
Broken Harbour (US title Broken Harbor) is Tana French's 2012 fourth Dublin Murder Squad novel, following Detective Scorcher Kennedy's investigation of the Spain family murders in a half-abandoned Irish ghost estate; it won the LA Times Book Prize and Irish Book Award.
Brooklyn (novel)
Brooklyn (2009) is Colm Tóibín's novel about Eilis Lacey, an Irishwoman who emigrates from Enniscorthy to 1950s Brooklyn; Costa Novel Award winner, Booker-longlisted, adapted into a 2015 Oscar-nominated film, with sequel Long Island (2024).
Broquéis
Broquéis is a book of poems in verse by the Brazilian poet João da Cruz e Sousa, published in August 1893, that inaugurated Symbolism in Brazilian literature alongside Missal.
Brother Man
Brother Man is a 1954 novel by the Jamaican writer Roger Mais, telling of an honest Rastafarian healer caught up in intrigue and betrayal in West Kingston.
Brotherhood of Mutants
Brotherhood of Mutants, also Brotherhood of Evil Mutants: Marvel Comics supervillain team of mutant terrorists founded by Magneto in X-Men #4 (1963) to pursue mutant supremacy against the X-Men; later led by Mystique, appearing in films and X-Men '97.
Brotherless Night
Brotherless Night is V.V. Ganeshananthan's 2023 Random House novel about Sashi, a Tamil aspiring doctor in Jaffna during Sri Lanka's civil war; it won the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize.
Brothers Poem
The Brothers Poem (Brothers Song) is a Sappho lyric published in 2014 by Dirk Obbink, praying to Hera for brother Charaxos's safe return and hoping Larichos grows into a man; its addressee and provenance are debated.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Brown Girl, Brownstones is Paule Marshall's 1959 first novel, following Selina Boyce, daughter of Barbadian immigrants, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s.
Brunizem
Brunizem is the 1988 first poetry collection by Indian poet Sujata Bhatt, published by Carcanet Press, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.