Great Books – B

Bacchae (Euripides)
Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Bray Hammond)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
Barrett Wendell and His Letters (M. A. Dewolfe Howe)
Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)
Basic Christianity (John Stott)
Battle of the Books (Jonathan Swift)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (James M. McPherson) (10 in series)
Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Jonathan Weiner)
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (David J. Garrow)
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (William W. Warner)
Beauty and Sadness (Yasunari Kawabata)
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Paul Monette)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Katherine Boo)
Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (John D. Zizioulas) (5 in series)
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Bell for Adano (John Hersey)
Beloved (Toni Morrison) (3 in series)
Benjamin Franklin (Carl Van Doren)
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed (William Cabell Bruce) (2 in series)
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Talbot Faulkner Hamlin)
Beowulf ()
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Herbert Feis)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Sigmund Freud)
Bhagavad Gita ()
Bible ()
Big Sky (A. B. Guthrie) (3 in series)
Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler) (10 in series)
Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Birds (Aristophanes)
Black Boy (Richard Wright)
Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Tom Reiss)
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (Joby Warrick)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Rebecca West)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Tie (Mary Lee Settle)
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Heather Ann Thompson)
Body (Charles Colson)
Bondage of the Will (Martin Luther)
Bone People (Keri Hulme)
Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
Book of Bebb (Frederick Buechner)
Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
Book of the Dun Cow (Walter Wangerin) (3 in series)
Book of Mencius (Mencius)
Book of Pastoral Rule (Pope Gregory I)
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (Louis R. Harlan) (2 in series)
Born Again (Charles Colson)
Brand (Henrik Ibsen)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Bread and Wine (Ignazio Silone) (3 in series)
Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brother to a Dragonfly (Will Campbell)
Brothers K (David James Duncan)
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) (4 in series)
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Thomas Mann)
Burmese Days (George Orwell)

Books marked with an asterisk * are video collaborations!

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