Not an exhaustive list.  I’m striving for adult fiction titles, but an occasional YA or juvenile fiction title, or a biography, may have made its way in here.  Some publication dates may reflect later editions of the work.

A bone and hank of hair, Leo Bruce, 1961
A bone from a dry sea, Peter Dickinson, 1992
A bone of contention, Susanna Gregory, 1997
A bone to pick, Charlaine Harris, 1992
A cage of bones, Jeffrey Round, 1997
A morbid taste for bones, Ellis Peters, 1977
A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair, Nicholas Fisk, 1980
A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair: the twenty-first Lovejoy novel, Jonathan Gash, 1999
A rattling of old bones, Jonathan Ross, 1979
A small gathering of bones, Patricia Powell, 1994
A spell for old bones, Eric Linklater, 1950
A stir of bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, 2003
A ticket to the boneyard: a Matthew Scudder novel, Lawrence Block, 1990
An echo in the bone: a novel, Diana Gabaldon, 2009
Ark of bones and other stories, Henry Dumas, 1974
Bad to the bone, Debra Dixon, 1996
Bad to the bone, Jeri Smith-Ready, 2009
Bad to the bone, Katy Munger, 2000
Bad to the bone, Mildred E. Riley, 2003
Bad to the bone, Stephen Solomita,1991
Baily’s bones, Victor Kelleher, 1988
Bare bones, Kathleen J. Reichs, 2003
Beat not the bones, Charlotte Jay, 1995
Beyond the bone, Reginald Hill, 2000
Blind to the bones: a crime novel, Stephen Booth, 2003
Blood and bone, C. T. Westcott, 1989
Blood and bone, William Lashner, 2009
Bloody bones canyon/renegade siege, Judd Cole, 1999
Bloody bones, Laurell K. Hamilton, 1996
Blue bone, Martin Woodhouse, 1973
Bone, George C. Chesbro, 1989
Bone, Fae Myenne Ng,1993
Bone by bone, Carol O’Connell, 2008
Bone by bone, Peter Matthiessen, 1999
Bone by bone by bone, Tony Johnston, 2007
Bone cold, Erica Spindler, 2001
Bone crossed, Patricia Briggs, 2009
Bone dance, Martha Brooks, 1997
Bone deep, Darian North, 1995
Bone deep, David Wiltse, 1995
Bone dry: a Blanco County, Texas novel, Ben Rehder, 2003
Bone factory, Steven Sidor, 2005
Bone fire, Mark Spragg, 2010
Bone game, Louis Owens, 1994
Bone harvest, Mary Logue, 2004
Bone house, Betsy Tobin, 2000
Bone hunter, Sarah Andrews, 1999
Bone idle, Susannah Stacey, 1993
Bone idle: the case of the vicar and the prancing pig, Suzette A. Hill, 2009
Bone in the throat, Anthony Bourdain, 1995
Bone Island mambo: an Alex Rutledge mystery, Tom Corcoran, 2001
Bone Key, Les Standiford, 2002
Bone mountain, Eliot Pattison, 2002
Bone music, Lee Moler, 1999
Bone of contention, Roberta Gellis, 2002
Bone of my bones, Sylvia Wilkinson, 1982
Bone rattler: a mystery of colonial America, Eliot Pattison, 2008
Bone to the bone, Nathan Shaham, 1993
Bone truth, Anne Finger, 1994
Bone valley, Claire Matturro, 2006
Bone walker: an Anasazi mystery, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, 2001
Bonecrack, Dick Francis, 1971
Bonegrinder, John Lutz, 1977
BoneMan’s Daughters, Ted Dekker, 2009
Bones and silence: a Dalziel/Pascoe mystery, Reginald Hill, 1990
Bones gather no moss, John Sherwood, 1994
Bones of contention, Edward Candy, 1954
Bones of contention, Nicholas Gage, 1975
Bones of coral, Jim Hall, 1991
Bones of empire, William C. Dietz, 2010
Bones of Plenty, Lois Phillips Hudson, 1962
Bones of the earth, Michael Swanwick,2002
Bones of the moon, Jonathan Carroll, 1987
Bones, Bill Pronzini, 1985
Bones, John Paxson, 1997
Bones: an Irene Kelly mystery, Jan Burke, 1999
Boneyards, R. Wright Campbell,  1992
Breath and bones, Susann Cokal, 2005
Bred in the bone, Elsie Singmaster, 1925
Bred in the bone, Thomas Nelson Page, 1904
Bringing up the bones, Lara M. Zeises, 2002
Buried bones, Carolyn Haines, 2000
Burning bones, Christopher Golden, 2001
Burnt bones, Michael Slade, 2000
By these ten bones, Clare B. Dunkle, 2005
Cabbage and bones: an anthology of Irish American women’s fiction, 1997
Carved in bone, Jefferson Bass, 2006
Charles B. Judah, Tom bone, 1944
Charlie’s bones: a mystery, L. L. Thrasher, 1998
City of bones, Martha Wells, 1995
City of bones, Michael Connelly, 2002
Close to the bone, David Wiltse, 1992
Close to the bone, Jake Lamar, 1998
Close to the bone, William G. Tapply, 1996
Closet bones, Thomas Bunn, 1977
Countrymen of bones, Robert Olen Butler, 1983
Crazybone: a “nameless detective” novel, Bill Pronzini, 2000
Cross bones, Kathleen J. Reichs, 2005
Crossed bones, Carolyn Haines, 2003
Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg, 1976
Dark matter: reading the bones, 2004
Dead man’s bones, Susan Wittig Albert, 2005
Debt of bones, Terry Goodkind,2001
Dem bones’ revenge: a Tracy Eaton mystery, Kris Neri, 2000
Down to the bone, Karen Harper, 2000
Down to the bone, Mayra Lazara Dole, 2008
Dragon bone hill, Noel T. Boaz and Russell I. Ciochon, 2004
Dragon bones, Lisa See, 2003
Dragonfly bones, David Cole, 2003
Dreaming of the bones, Deborah Crombie, 1997
Dry bones, Hope Norman Coulter, 1990
Dust from old bones, Sandra Forrester, 1999
Echo round his bones, Thomas M. Disch, 1967
Empire of bones, Liz Williams, 2002
Empire of bones: a novel of Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution, Jeff Long, 1993
Face down in the marrow-bone pie, Kathy Lynn Emerson, 1997
Feast of bones, Daniel P. Bolger, 1990
Fever of the bone, Val McDermid, 2009
Fire, bed, & bone, Henrietta Branford, 1998
Fish & Bones, Ray Prather, 1992
Fish, blood, and bone, Leslie Forbes, 2001
Flesh and bone: a Body Farm novel, Jefferson Bass, 2007
Flesh and bones: a Jake Lassiter novel, Paul Levine, 1997
Fresh Bones, Les Martin, 1998
Funnybone, William E. Coles, 1992
Fuzzy bones, William Tuning, 1981
Gathering the bones: original stories from the world’s masters of horror, 2003
Giant bones, Peter S. Beagle, 1997
Good bones and simple murders, Margaret Eleanor Atwood, 1994
Hallowed bones, Carolyn Haines, 2004
Harvest of bones, Nancy Means Wright, 1998
Hearts and bones, Margaret Lawrence, 1996
Hellboy: The bones of giants, Christopher Golden,2001
Holy smoke: a Bones & the duchess mystery, Alexandra Eden, 2004
House of bones, Dale Bailey, 2003
Icebones, Stephen Baxter, 2001
In the bone, Gordon R. Dickson, 1987
Island of bones, P. J. Parrish, 2004
Jupiter’s bones, Faye Kellerman, 1999
Love, bones, and water, Adam Zameenzad,1989
Lovely in her bones, Sharyn McCrumb, 1985
Make no bones, Aaron J. Elkins, 1991
Map of bones: a Sigma Force novel, James Rollins, 2005
Merlin’s bones, Fred Saberhagen, 1995
Mistress of the bones, T. J. MacGregor, 1995
Mr. Bones retreat, Margaret Forster, 1971
Murder bone by bone, Lora Roberts, 1997
My bones and my flute, Edgar Mittelhölzer, 1958
My sister’s bones, Cathi Hanauer, 1996
No bones about it, Donna Huston Murray, 1998
No bones, Anna Burns, 2001
Numbering all the bones, Ann Rinaldi, 2002
Old bones: a Gideon Oliver mystery, Aaron J. Elkins, 1987
Only flesh and bones, Sarah Andrews, 1998
Only the little bone: stories, David Huddle, 1986
Penelope Farmer, A castle of bone, 1973
Picking the ballad’s bones, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, 1991
Pippin and the bones, K. V. Johansen, 2000
Rag and bone, Michael Nava,2001
Rattle his bones: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery, Carola Dunn, 2000
Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American Tales of the Supernatural, Mary E. Lyons, 1995 Playing the bones, Louise Redd, 1996
Reflex and bone structure, Clarence Major, 1975
Roll them bones, David Niall Wilson, 2003
Rolling the bones, Kyle Jarrard, 2001
Rule of the bone, Russell Banks, 1995
Screaming bones, Pat Burden, 1991
Servant of the bones, Anne Rice, 1996
Shattered bone Chris Stewart, 1998
Sing it to her bones, Marcia Talley, 1999
Singing bone, 1 R. Austin Freeman, 965
Skull still bone, John Wyllie, 1975
Sleeping bones, Katherine V. Forrest, 1999
Slocum and the bone robbers, Jake Logan, 2004
Slow dancing on dinosaur bones, Lana Witt, 1996
Song of the bones, M. K. Preston, 2003
Splintered bones, Carolyn Haines,  2002
St. Dingan’s bones, Julian Callender, 1958
Stephen King, Bag of bones, 1998
Stolen bones, Joan Davenport Carris, 1993
The banker’s bones, Margaret Scherf, 1968
The bone chamber, Robin Burcell, 2009
The bone collector, Jeffery Deaver, 1996
The bone doll’s twin, Lynn Flewelling, 2001
The bone forest, Robert Holdstock, 1992
The bone garden, Kate Ellis, 2003
The bone garden, Tess Gerritsen, 2007
The bone magician, by F.E. Higgins, 2008
The bone orchard, D. Daniel Judson, 2002
The bone orchard, Joseph Trigoboff, 1990
The bone parade, Mark Nykanen, 2004
The bone people, Keri Hulme, 1983
The bone pickers, Al Dewlen,2002
The bone polisher, Timothy Hallinan, 1995
The bone thief, Jefferson Bass, 2010
The bone vault, Linda Fairstein, 2003
The bone wars, Kathryn Lasky, 1988
The Bone Weaver, Victoria ZackheimBone, 1989
The bone yard, Paul Johnston, 1998
The bone-pedlar, Sylvian Hamilton, 2001
The bones in the attic, Robert Barnard, 2002
The bones in the cliff, James Stevenson, 1995
The bones of the buried, David Roberts, 2001
The bones of time, Kathleen Ann Goonan, 1996
The bones of Zora, L. Sprague De Camp, 1983
The bones wizard, Alan Ryan, 1988
The bones, Seth Greenland, 2005
The bonesetter’s daughter, Amy Tan, 2001
The case of the rolling bones, Erle Stanley Gardner, 1967
The Chapel of Bones, Michael Jecks, 2005
The Dragonbone chair, Tad Williams, 1988
The farming of bones, Edwidge Danticat, 1998
The gate of bones, Emily Drake, 2004
The Goliath bone, Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins, 2008
The lair of bones, David Farland, 2003
The lovely bones, Alice Sebold,2002
The moonbow of Mr. B. Bones, J. Patrick Lewis, 1992
The prayer of the bone, Paul Bryers, 1999
The rag & bone shop, Jeff Rackham, 2001
The rag and bone shop, Robert Cormier, 2003
The shaman’s bones, James D Doss, 1997
The trail to Honk Ballard’s bones, Sam Brown, 1990
The white bone, Barbara Gowdy, 1999
The whiteness of bones, Susanna Moore, 1989
Them bones, Carolyn Haines, 1999
Them bones, Howard Waldrop, 1984
These bones were made for dancin’:: a Smith and Wetzon mystery, Annette Meyers, 1995
These same long bones, Gwendolyn M. Parker, 1994
Those bones are not my child, Toni Cade Bambara, 1999
To the bone, Neil McMahon, 2003
Trail of bones, Mark London Williams, 2005
Turning bones, Lee Martin, 2003
Twenty-seven bones: a thriller, Jonathan Lewis Nasaw, 2004
Valley of bones, Anthony Powell, 1964
Valley of bones, Michael Gruber, 2005
Very old bones, William Kennedy, 1992
Walking bones, Charlotte Carter, 2002
Wetbones, John Shirley, 1991
What’s bred in the bone, Robertson Davies, 1985
Where old bones lie, Ann Granger, 1993
Whispers in dust and bone, Andrew Geyer, 2003
Winter’s bone: a novel, Daniel Woodrell, 2006
Wisdom of the bones, Christopher Hyde, 2003
Witness of bones, Leonard D. Tourney, 1992
Written in bone, Simon Beckett, 2007
Zero at the bone, Ferrars, E. X., 1967
Zero at the bone, Jane Seville, 2009
Zero at the bone, Mary Willis Walker, 1991
Zero at the bone, Michael Cadnum, 1996


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