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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A Tale For The Time Being
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

A Tale of Magic...
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

A Tale of Three Kings: A Study of Brokenness
Gene Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Tale of Time City

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

A Tangled Web
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

A Tangle of Knots
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

A Taste for Monsters

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

A Taste of Blackberries
Doris Buchanan Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

A Taste of Eternity
Gisèle Pineau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Taste of Honey
Shelagh Delaney

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

A Taste of Power
Elaine Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

A Technique for Producing Ideas
James Webb Young

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

A Tempest
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

A Tempest of Tea
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

A Testament of Hope
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #1)
Charles Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Theory of Human Motivation
Abraham Maslow

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1943

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Thief Of Time
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Thousand Broken Pieces
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965

A Thousand Heartbeats
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2)
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Thousand Pieces of You
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Thousand Steps into Night
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

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 Ticket to the Boneyard (Matthew Scudder, #8)
Lawrence Block

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

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 For Mercy
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Time of Changes
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone, #1)
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Time of Miracles
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

A Time to Kill
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity
Nicole Valentine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Torch Against the Night
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Touch of Gold (A Touch of Gold, #1)
Annie Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Touch of Malice
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Tour On The Prairies
Washington Irving

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

A Town Called Solace
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A to Z Mysteries: Books A-Z [Complete Set]
Ron Roy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1880

A Treacherous Curse
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1710

A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1739

A Treatise on Good Works
Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1521

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

A Tribe Apart
Patricia Hersch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

A Twist in Time (Kendra Donovan, #2)
Julie McElwain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Tailspin
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Taipei People

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Take a Chance
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Take a Thief (Valdemar #25)
Mercedes Lackey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Take Back the Block
Chrystal D. Giles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Takedown Twenty
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Take Me with You
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Taken at Dusk
C.C. Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Taken at the Flood
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Taken by Midnight
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Taken (Elvis Cole, #15; Joe Pike, #4)
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Taken (Taken, #1)
Erin Bowman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Take This Regret
Amy Lichtenhan, A.L. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Taking Chances
Molly McAdams

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Taking Rights Seriously
Ronald Dworkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Taking Sides
Gary Soto

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Taking Up Space
Alyson Gerber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Geoff Colvin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2009

Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2010

Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2013

Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2010

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1798

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Rita Golden Gelman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Tales of Burning Love
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarrello

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983