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To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
Bret Baier

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Torment
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Torn
Carian Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
Deborah Heiligman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Tortilla Sun
Jennifer Cervantes, J.C. Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Jedidiah Jenkins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

To Siberia
Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

To Sir with Love
E. R. Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

To Sir, with Love
Lauren Layne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

To Swallow the Earth
Ransom Wilcox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Total Control
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Total Forgiveness
R.T. Kendall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
Emmanuel Levinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Totally and Completely Fine
Elissa Sussman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Totem and Taboo
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1913

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 End of the Land
David Grossman, Jessica Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

To the Last Breath
Carlton Stowers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

To the Lions
Holly Watt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

To the Nines
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

To the Stars
L. Ron Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Touch
Adania Shibli

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Touch & Go
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2)
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Touch of Frost
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Touch of Power
Maria V. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Touch the Dark
Karen Chance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Tough Guy
Rachel Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
Rich Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!
Robert H. Schuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Toujours Provence
Peter Mayle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Tourist Season
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Tower Lord
Anthony Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942
Richard B. Frank

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Towing Jehovah (Godhead, #1)
James K. Morrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

To Win Her Heart
Karen Witemeyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Toyota Production System
Taiichi Ohno

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
Philip José Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Trace
Lauret Savoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Tracker
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Trackers (Lemmer #2)
Deon Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Track of the Cat
Nevada Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Tracks
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Robyn Davidson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
David Pears, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Brian McGuinness

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1921

Traction
Gabriel Weinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude
Mark Douglas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Trad Wife
Saratoga Schaefer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Tom Vanderbilt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Tragic
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1912

Trail of Broken Wings
Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Trail of Lightning
Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Train Dreams
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2002

Training School for Negro Girls
Camille Acker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Train to Pakistan
Khushwant Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Train Whistle Guitar
Albert Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Traitor (Boy Soldier, #1)
Andy McNab, Robert Rigby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Traitor's Blade
Sebastien de Castell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Traitor to the Throne
Alwyn Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Tramp for the Lord
Corrie Ten Boom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Trampoline
Robert Gipe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

TransAtlantic
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Transcendence
Shay Savage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Gaia Vince

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Transcendental Wild Oats
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1873

Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Transcription
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Transfer of Power
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Transgender History
Susan Stryker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
Leslie Feinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Transgender Warriors
Leslie Feinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Transit
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Translations
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Translation State
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Rodney Ramos, Darick Robertston, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, Patrick Stewart, Nathan Eyring

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Transparent Things
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Trans-Sister Radio
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Traplines
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

Trapped
Michael Northrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun
Arvella Whitmore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
Neil Swidey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014