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Bonsai Kitten
Bonsai Kitten, also called BonsaiKitten.com, was a December 2000 satirical MIT student hoax site claiming kittens could be grown into jar shapes; it triggered FBI investigation, animal rights complaints, and chain-email petitions, though no cats were ever harmed.
Bonus Army
The Bonus Army (Bonus Expeditionary Force) was a 1932 movement of about 20,000 World War I veterans who camped in Washington, D.C., demanding early payment of 1924 bonus certificates due in 1945; the Army evicted them on July 28, 1932.
Boogaloo movement
Boogaloo movement, or Boogaloo Bois: decentralized American anti-government, anti-police extremist movement anticipating a second U.S. civil war, named via the Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo meme, marked by Hawaiian shirts, igloo symbols, and 2020 protest violence.
Book burning
Book burning, part of biblioclasm, is the deliberate destruction of books by fire for censorship, purification, or symbolism. Covers Greco-Roman and late-antique precedents, the Nazi May 10, 1933 burnings of over 20,000 volumes in Berlin, and modern patterns and law.
Book censorship in the United States
Book censorship in the United States: challenges and bans of books in schools and libraries. Key facts: ALA challenge definition, Pico (1982), PEN America's 11,982 bans in 2025-26, Texas SB13, Utah HB 374.
Book of Amos (ספר עמוס)
The Book of Amos (ספר עמוס) is the third of the twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, condemning oppression of the poor and insincere worship.
Book of Baruch
The Book of Baruch is a deuterocanonical Old Testament book attributed to Baruch, scribe of Jeremiah, accepted by Catholics and Orthodox but not Jews or Protestants.
Book of Ben Sira
The Book of Ben Sira, also known as Sirach or Ecclesiasticus, is a Jewish wisdom book of proverbs composed in Hebrew around 180 BCE and translated into Greek in 132 BCE.
Book of Burial
The Book of Burial (葬书) is a Chinese manual on choosing a burial ground, teaching that the place and timing of burial determine descendants' wealth, lifespan, and fortune.
Book of Caverns
The Book of Caverns is a New Kingdom funerary text of ancient Egypt describing the sun god Ra's nightly journey through six caverns of the netherworld, or Duat.
Book of Changes (Zhouyi)
The Book of Changes (周易), also called the Zhouyi, is a Chinese divination classic of 64 hexagrams and line statements that became one of the Five Classics in the Han dynasty.
Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer is the official service book of the Church of England, prepared mainly by Thomas Cranmer and first issued in 1549.
Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel is a bilingual Hebrew-Aramaic book of the Hebrew Bible with six court tales of the exile Daniel and four apocalyptic visions, the only apocalypse in the Hebrew Bible.
Book of Deer
The Book of Deer is a small tenth-century illuminated gospel book in Cambridge University Library, containing the earliest surviving Scottish Gaelic writing in eleventh- and twelfth-century marginal notes.
Book of Deggua
The Book of Deggua (Ge'ez ድጓ), also written Deggwa, is the antiphonal hymnbook of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, traditionally ascribed to Saint Yared of Aksum in the sixth century.
Book of Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy, called Devarim in Hebrew, is the fifth book of the Torah, presented as three farewell addresses by Moses on the plains of Moab, ending with his death.
Book of Documents
The Book of Documents (Shangshu, 尚书) is the earliest surviving compilation of ancient Chinese state documents, a Confucian classic covering rulers from Yao and Shun to the Spring and Autumn period.
Book of Enoch (መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ)
The Book of Enoch (Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ), also called 1 Enoch, is a Jewish apocalyptic collection of five books, canonical only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Book of Esther (אסתר)
The Book of Esther (אסתר, Megillat Esther) is a book of the Hebrew Bible, the only one in which the name of God never appears, read on Purim.
Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili)
The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (仪礼, Yili) is a Chinese ritual classic of seventeen chapters, compiled in the Warring States period with disputed authorship.
Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus, in Hebrew Shmot, is the second book of the Torah, telling of the Israelites' departure from Egypt, the giving of the Ten Commandments at Sinai, and Moses.
Book of Ezekiel (ספר יחזקאל)
The Book of Ezekiel (ספר יחזקאל), also called Book of Yechezkel, is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, with 48 chapters of visions attributed to the exiled priest Ezekiel.
Book of Ezra
The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible recounting the return of Judean exiles from Babylon, the rebuilding of the Temple, and the scribe-priest Ezra's reforms.
Book of Gates
The Book of Gates is a New Kingdom Egyptian royal funerary text describing the sun god's nightly journey through the netherworld, divided into twelve serpent-guarded gates.
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (בראשית) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, divided into the Primeval History, the Patriarchal Narratives, and the Joseph Story.
Book of Giants
The Book of Giants, also known as Ogias, is a lost Enochic apocryphal work about the Watchers and their giant offspring, known from Qumran and Manichaean fragments.
Book of Habakkuk (ספר חבקוק)
The Book of Habakkuk (ספר חבקוק) is a three-chapter book of the Hebrew Bible's Minor Prophets, dated to the late seventh century BCE, where the prophet questions God about injustice.
Book of Han
The Book of Han (汉书) is the official dynastic history of the Former Han dynasty, written by Ban Gu and completed by Ban Zhao and Ma Xu.
Book of Hosea
The Book of Hosea (הוֹשֵׁעַ, "salvation") is the first book of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, a fourteen-chapter collection of oracles attributed to the eighth-century BCE prophet Hosea son of Beeri.
Book of hours
A book of hours is a medieval Catholic prayer book for lay private devotion, built around the Hours of the Virgin and used from the thirteenth century.