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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

A Taste of Eternity
Gisèle Pineau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Taste of Honey
Kai Ashante Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Taste of Power
Elaine Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

A Testament of Hope
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

A Thief Of Time
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

A Thread of Grace
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Tidewater Morning
William Styron

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

A Tiger for Malgudi
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Time of Miracles
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

A Torch Against the Night
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

A Tribe Apart
Patricia Hersch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Tugging String
David Greenberg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

A Twist in the Tale
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1947

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Talkin' About Bessie
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2002

Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

Taming The Star Runner
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Teach Yourself How to Learn
Saundra Yancy McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1961

Tell Me Your Dreams
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

Tender at the Bone
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Tending to Grace
Kimberly Newton Fusco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ten Little Indians
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
Robert Bernard Martin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Terrible Typhoid Mary
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima

Novel | Published in 1979

Tess
Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Testimony: A Memoir
Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Testimony of Pilot
Barry Hannah

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Texaco
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Thanksgiving
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Thanks to My Mother
Schoschana Rabinovici

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Thank You For Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

That Championship Season
Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

That Evening Sun
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

That Kind of Mother
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Them Dark Days
William Dusinberre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriot
Clara Ingram Judson

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

There's a Bug in My Blossom
J.C. Donaho

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

There's a Girl in my Hammerlock
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

These Shallow Graves
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Tables Turned
William Morris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1902

The Taming of the Queen
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Things a Brother Knows
Dana Reinhardt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Third Plate
Dan Barber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Thousandth Floor
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1992

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Throat
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Tiffany Box
Kathleen Buckstaff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Tiger in the Tunnel
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1974

The Tiger's Bride
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Time in Between
David Bergen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Time of Voice
Robert Kelly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Toilet Paper Tigers
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Toughest Indian in the World
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Town
Conrad Richter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Toynbee Convector
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

The Tragedy Paper
Elizabeth LaBan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Train to Crystal City
Jan Jarboe Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Trials Of Apollo, Book 1: The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Trials of Brother Jero
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Joanna Cannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The True American
Anand Giridharadas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Trumpeter of Krakow
Eric P. Kelly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1928

The Truth About Alice
Jennifer Mathieu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Turner House
Angela Flournoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Turners
Mick Elliott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Twelve
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Twentieth Wife
Indu Sundaresan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Tyrant's Daughter
J.C. Carleson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

They All Ran After the President's Wife
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1992

They Called Themselves the KKK
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2010

They Call Me Coach
John Wooden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
David Bowles

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2018

They Can't Kill Us All
Wesley Lowery

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

They Marched into Sunlight
David Maraniss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Think Like a Dinosaur
James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1995

Third and Indiana
Steve Lopez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Laura Ruby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Angel on My Chest
Leslie Pietrzyk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

This House of Sky
Ivan Doig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

This I Believe II
Dan Gediman, ed., Jay Allison, ed.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

This is Just to Say
Joyce Sidman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2012

This is What Happy Looks Like
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Lullaby
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

This Perfect Day
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

This Place Is Dry
Vicki Cobb

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
Debbie Levy, Jo Ann Allen Boyce

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

This Side of Brightness
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

This Song Will Save Your Life
Leila Sales

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Time of Dying
Reina James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

This Was Our Valley
Earl K. Pollon, Shirlee Matheson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Thomas Wyatt
Susan Brigden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Those Who Save Us
Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Three Black Swans
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Three Lives
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Three Sisters, Three Queens
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Three Tall Women
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Tiger Eyes
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Tiger Woods
Jeff Benedict

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Tik-Tok
John Sladek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Time Pimp
Garrett Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Time's Arrow
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Time Stops for No Mouse
Michael Hoeye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

Tinderbox
Robert W. Fieseler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tiny Alice
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
Deborah Hopkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

To a God Unknown
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

To a Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Tobermory
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Toby's Room
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

To Capture What We Cannot Keep
Beatrice Colin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Tocqueville
Khaled Mattawa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

To Da-Duh, In Memoriam
Paule Marshall

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

To End All Wars
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Tolstoy: A Biography
A. N. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Tomboy
Liz Prince

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2006

Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1857

Tomorrow, When the War Began
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Dan Fagin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

To My Senses
Alexandrea Weis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Tonio Kroger
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

Too Good to Be True
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Too Late the Phalarope
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

To Siberia
Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

To Swallow the Earth
Ransom Wilcox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

To the Bright Edge of the World
Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

To the End of June
Cris Beam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

To the Last Breath
Carlton Stowers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Townie
Andre Dubus III

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
William T. Hoston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Trace
Lauret Savoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Trail of Broken Wings
Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Train Dreams
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Train Whistle Guitar
Albert Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

TransAtlantic
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Transit
Abdourahman A. Waberi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Travels with Lizbeth
Lars Eighner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Travesties
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

Tree Girl
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Trespassing Across America
Ken Ilgunas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Triangle
Teri White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Tried By War
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Tripmaster Monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Tristan
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

Tristan and Iseult
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Trouble in Mind
Lucie Brock-Broido

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Trouble in the Heartland
Joe Clifford

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Trouble on Triton
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Trouble the Water
Derrick Austin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Troy
Adèle Geras

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

True At First Light
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Martha Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

True West
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

Truth and Beauty
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Truthwitch
Susan Dennard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Tulia
Nate Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Tulip Fever
Deborah Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Twelve
Nick McDonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Twelve Days
Teresa Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Twenty Boy Summer
Sarah Ockler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
Robyn Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Twilight in Delhi
Ahmed Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Twisted Summer
Willo Davis Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

Two Lives
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Two Solitudes
Hugh Maclennan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1840

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Tyrell
Coe Booth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006