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Authors Beginning with "B"

Larry Baker

Flamingo Rising
Pinellas (Florida) 2006

David Baldacci

Wish You Well
     Farmingdale (New York) 2007
     * State-wide program (Rhode Island) 2003 (January - May):
     Lynchburg (Virginia) 2005
     Winchester, Frederick, and Clarke Counties (Virginia) 2006
     * Country-wide program (* Regional program) 2001
Wish You Well, Absolute Power, Hour Game
     Huntsville (Alabama) 2005

James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain
Chicago (Illinois) 2007 (Spring) -

Molly Bang

Common Ground
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2006 May

Russell Banks

Sweet Hereafter
     Vigo County (Indiana) 2005
     Rochester (New York) 2002
     Seattle (Washington) 1998

Charles Barkley

Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man
South Orange/Maplewood (New Jersey) 2006

Nevada Barr

Firestorm
Pagosa Springs (Colorado) 2007 (fiction)

Andrea Barrett

Servants of the Map
Rochester (New York) 2005

Joan Bauer

Hope Was Here
Saginaw Area (Michigan) 2002
[The works of]
Farmingdale (New York) 2008

L. Frank Baum

Wizard of Oz
     Chatham (Cape Cod/Barnstable County) (Massachusetts) 2005
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
     Sierra Madre (California) 2007
     Lawrence (Kansas) 2004 Feb.
Wonderful World of Oz
     Enfield (Connecticut) 2003 June - Sept.
     Ridgefield (Connecticut) 2003
     Westport (Connecticut) 2008

Ishmael Beah

Long Way Gone
Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2008
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of Boy Soldier
Austin (Texas) 2008

Melba Pattillo Beals

Warriors Don't Cry
Chelsea (Michigan) 2004 January
Logan (Utah) 2006

Lauren Belfer

City of Light
Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) 2003 (spring) -
Bradford (Pennsylvania) 2008

Bill Belleville

River of Lakes
Central Florida (Florida) 2005

Joel ben Izzy

Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Racine (Wisconsin) 2007

Sandra Benitez

Place Where the Sea Remembers
Rockford (Illinois) 2006
Weight of All Things
Eden Prairie (Minnesota) 2008

John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Gainesville (Florida) 2008

Elizabeth Berg

Art of Mending
* State-wide program (South Dakota) 2004

H. G. Bissinger

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream
     Saratoga (California) 2005
     Evansville (Indiana) 2007
     Galveston County (Texas) 2005
     Mansfield (Texas) 2008 April

Fergus Bodewich

Bound for Canaan
Cambria County (Pennsylvania) 2008

Chris Bohjalian

Before You Know Kindness
     Wilmette (Illinois) 2006
     Augusta (Maine) 2006
     Wilmington (Massachusetts) 2007
Buffalo Soldier
     Windsor (Connecticut) 2005
     Evansville (Indiana) 2005
     Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2004 (adults) -
     Rochester (New York) 2007
Double Bind
     Springfield (Illinois) 2007
Water Witches
     Northampton (Massachusetts) 2004
     Concord (New Hampshire) 2005

Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential
Rockford (Illinois) 2007

T. C. Boyle

Tortilla Curtain
     Carlsbad (California) 2004
     Santa Barbara (California) 2002
     Sierra Madre (California) 2005
     Silicon Valley (California) 2006-07
     Johnson County (Iowa) 2006
     Marquette (Michigan) 2006
     Aliso Viejo (California) 2005
     Bakersfield (California) 2003 (adults) -
     Laguna Beach (California) 2006 Oct. - 2007 Mar.
     San Joaquin County (California) 2003
     Chelsea (Michigan) 2008
     Boone and Callaway Counties (Missouri) 2006
     Galveston County (Texas) 2004

Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine
     Lake Villa (Illinois) 2004
Fahrenheit 451
     Anchorage (Alaska) 2007
     Safford City (Graham County) (Arizona) 2007
     Fayetteville (Arkansas) 2007
     Bakersfield (California) 2005
     Carlsbad (California) 2006
     Concord (California) 2007
     Long Beach (California) 2005
     Los Angeles (California) 2002 April
     Nevada County (California) 2005
     Redwood City (California) 2007
     Santa Clarita Valley (California) 2007
     Silicon Valley (California) 2004
     Sonoma County (California) 2007
     Eastern Connecticut (Connecticut) 2003
     Glastonbury (Connecticut) 2005
     Norwalk (Connecticut) 2008
     Jacksonville (Florida) 2003
     Palm Beach (Florida) 2002 March - April
     Boise (Idaho) 2006
     Bloomington-Normal (Illinois) 2005
     Kankakee County (Illinois) 2003
     Libertyville (Illinois) 2006
     Peoria (Illinois) 2008 (TBR)
     Allen County (Fort Wayne) (Indiana) 2003
     Bloomington (Indiana) 2007 (TBR)
     Carmel (Indiana) 2003 (adult) -
     Lafayette (Indiana) 2002
     Topeka (Kansas) 2007 (TBR)
     Baton Rouge (Louisiana) 2008
     Bridgewater (Massachusetts) 2008-09 #1 -
     Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) 2003 (adults) -
     South Hadley (Massachusetts) 2006
     Springfield (Massachusetts) 2006
     East Lansing (Michigan) 2002
     Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2003 Feb. 17- March 30
     South Haven (Michigan) 2007
     Omaha (Nebraska) 2004
     Northern Nevada (and the Tahoe region of northern California) (Nevada) 2007
     * State-wide program (New Hampshire) 2007 (TBR)
     * State-wide program (New Jersey) 2003
     Utica (New York) 2004
     Wake County (North Carolina) 2003
     Delaware County (Ohio) 2003 July
     Greater Cleveland Area (Ohio) 2003 Feb-Apr
     Claremore (Oklahoma) 2006
     Multnomah County/Portland (Oregon) 2004
     Erie (Pennsylvania) 2004
     Houston (Texas) 2003
     Tacoma (Washington) 2003 Feb.
     Sweetwater County (Wyoming) 2007

James Bradley

Flags of Our Fathers
Lafayette (Indiana) 2007
Traverse City (Michigan) 2007

Kate Braestrup

Here if You Need Me
Conway (Mt. Washington Valley) (New Hampshire) 2008

Rick Bragg

All Over But the Shoutin'
     * State-wide program (Arkansas) 2003 #1 -
     Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2003
     Evansville (Indiana) 2003
     Cape Girardeau (Missouri) 2003
     Henry County (Tennessee) 2004
     Jackson-Madison County (Tennessee) 2004
     Rutherford County (Tennessee) 2003
     Kalamazoo (Michigan) 2009
Ava's Man
     Mobile (Alabama) 2002
     Monroe (Louisiana) 2005
     Carroll County (Maryland) 2007

Sonny Brewer

Poet of Tolstoy Park
Fairhope (Alabama) 2005
Gwinnett County (Georgia) 2006 (fall) -

Kevin Brockmeier

Brief History of the Dead
* State-wide program (Arkansas) 2007

Tom Brokaw

Greatest Generation
     Long Beach (California) 2007
     Broomfield (Colorado) 2007
     Iola (Kansas) 2006 #2
     Carroll County (Maryland) 2002
     Clayton (Ohio) 2002
     Temple (Texas) 2004-05

Geraldine Brooks

March
     La Canada Flintridge (California) 2006
     Prior Lake-Savage (Minnesota) 2006-07 (adult)
Year of Wonders
     Winnetka-Northfield (Illinois) 2004 (adult)-

Amy Belding Brown

Mr. Emerson's Wife
East of the Connecticut River (Towns of Andover, Bolton, Colchester, Columbia, Glastonbury , Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, and Portland) (Connecticut) 2007

Mary Ward Brown

It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories
Decatur (Alabama) 2002

Oral Lee Brown

Promise
Manchester (Connecticut) 2006

Robert Bruel

Bob and Otto
Miami-Dade area (Florida) 2007

Joseph Bruhac

[The works of]
Naperville (Illinois) 2007 (children)

Bill Bryson

Walk in the Woods
     Augusta (Maine) 2004
     South Portland (Maine) 2005
     Ipswich (Massachusetts) 2006
     North Reading (Massachusetts) 2008
     Norton (Massachusetts) 2006 (adult #2) -
     Norwell (Massachusetts) 2007
     Pittsfield (Massachusetts) 2008
     Contoocook (New Hampshire) 2002
     Tiffin (Ohio) 2007
     Cambria County (Pennsylvania) 2005
     Centre County (Pennsylvania) 2006
     Cumberland-Dauphin Counties (Pennsylvania) 2003
     Erie (Pennsylvania) 2005

Marina Budhos

Ask Me No Questions
Mount Prospect (Illinois) 2007 (grades 7-10)

Octavia Butler

Kindred
     Pasadena (California) 2006
     Rochester (New York) 2003
     Milwaukee (Wisconsin) 2002

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