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| Work | Author | Form | Published | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Budd | Herman Melville | Novella / unfinished manuscript fiction | Composed 1886–1891; first published posthumously in 1924 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright | Autobiography | 1945 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Black Butterflies | Ingrid Jonker | Literary work | 2008 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Blauwe maandagen | Arnon Grunberg | Literary work | 1994 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | Novel | Serialized 1852–1853; book edition 1853 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolfo Anaya | Coming-of-age novel | 1972 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Bliss | Katherine Mansfield | Short story | 1918 | Additional classroom reference |
| Blood Safari | Deon Meyer | Thriller novel | 2007 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind | William Shakespeare | Song | 1623 | IB PRL recommended authorAdditional classroom reference |
| Bosnian Chronicle | Ivo Andrić | Historical novel | 1945 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Boule de Suif | Guy de Maupassant | Short story / novella | 1880 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Boy, Snow, Bird | Helen Oyeyemi | Novel | 2014 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Dystopian novel | 1932 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Break, Break, Break | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Lyric elegy | 1842 | Additional classroom reference |
| Breast Stories | Mahasweta Devi | Short-story collection | 1997 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat | Coming-of-age novel | 1994 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Brecht at Night | Mati Unt | Documentary novel | 1997 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Brekkukotsannáll | Halldór Laxness | Novel | 1957 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | Novel | 1945 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Bridge of the Gods Illustrated | Frederic Homer Balch | Historical romance | 1890; illustrated nineteenth edition 1915 | |
| Brown Girl, Brownstones | Paule Marshall | Coming-of-age novel | 1959 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Bumi Manusia | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | Historical novel | 1980 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Butterflies in November | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | Novel | 2004; English translation 2013–2014 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Butterfly Valley | Inger Christensen | Sonnet cycle / requiem | 1991; Susanna Nied English translation 2004 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| By the Danube | Attila József | Three-part lyric ode | 1936; title edition 2010 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Call to Arms | Lu Xun | Short-story collection with authorial preface | 1923 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Candide | Voltaire | Philosophical satire / novella | 1759 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | Play | 1955 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Cat’s Eye | Margaret Atwood | Novel | 1988 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | Novel | 1961 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Catsplay | István Örkény | Literary work | 1974 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Celestial Harmonies | Péter Esterházy | Literary work | 2004 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko | Novel | 1977 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Chacha chhakkan | Imtiaz Ali Taj | Literary work | 1989 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage | Lord Byron | Narrative poem in four cantos | 1812–1818 | Additional classroom reference |
| Chronicle in Stone | Ismail Kadare | Literary work | 1973 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Cinta di dalam gelas | Andrea Hirata | Literary work | 2010 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| City Gate, Open Up | Bei Dao | Literary work | 2017 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Closely Watched Trains | Bohumil Hrabal | Literary work | 1968 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Cloudstreet | Tim Winton | Novel / family saga | 1991 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | Historical novel | 1997 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Comedies | Ludvig Holberg | Collection of three stage comedies | 1914 English collection; plays from 1722–1723 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Coming Through Slaughter | Michael Ondaatje | Experimental historical novel | 1976 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Composed upon Westminster Bridge | William Wordsworth | Petrarchan sonnet | 1807 | Additional classroom reference |
| Convivio | Dante Alighieri | Philosophical prose commentary with lyric poems | c. 1304–1307 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Corpus Delicti | Juli Zeh | Dystopian novel | 2009 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Country of my skull | Antjie Krog | Hybrid literary nonfiction, reportage, memoir, and testimony | 1998 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Novel | Serialized 1866; book edition 1867 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Crossing the Bar | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Lyric poem | 1889 | Additional classroom reference |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | Novel | 1948 | AP FRQ 3 |