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Trash
Andy Mulligan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Trash: Stories
Dorothy Allison

Nonfiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Judith Lewis Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Trauma and the Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption
Donald Kalsched

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
Taiyon J. Coleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1879

Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Travels With Charley
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Daniel Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Travels with Lizbeth
Lars Eighner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Travels with My Aunt
Graham Greene, Gloria Emerson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Travel Team
Mike Lupika

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Travesties
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

Travis
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Treachery in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Treason (Stone Barrington, #52)
Stuart Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Treasure (Dirk Pitt, #9)
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Treasure Hunters (Treasure Hunters, #1)
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein, Mark Shulman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1883

Treasure Island: Runaway Gold
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Treasures Lost, Treasures Found
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 45

Tree Girl
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Tree (Rosales Saga, #2)
F. Sionil José

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Tremors in the Blood
Amit Katwala

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Trespasses
Louise Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Trespassing Across America
Ken Ilgunas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Álvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham
Marcia Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Trial of the Sun Queen
Nisha J. Tuli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Trials of Death
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Triangle
Teri White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Tribal Leadership
Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Tribute
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Trickery
Jane Washington, Jaymin Eve

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Tricks
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Trickster Drift
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Trickster's Choice
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Trickster's Queen
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Tricky Twenty-Two
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Tried By War
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Trifles
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1916

Trilby
George du Maurier, Dennis Denisoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
Brian W. Aldiss, David Wingrove

Fiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Trinity
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Triple Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Triple Threat
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tripmaster Monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Triptych
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Tripwire
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Tris's Book
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Tristan
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

Tristan and Iseult
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Tristan et Isolde
Richard Wagner, André Miquel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1859

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Kwame Mbalia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Triumph of The City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (2011)
Edward L. Glaeser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1601

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

Trojan Women
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Troll: A Love Story
Johanna Sinisalo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tropic Death

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1926

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Tropic of Orange
Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Trouble
Non Pratt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Trouble Don't Last
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Trouble in Mind
Lucie Brock-Broido

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Trouble in Mind (Illuminations)
Alice Childress

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Trouble in the Heartland
Joe Clifford

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Carla Shalaby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Leah Remini, Rebecca Paley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Trouble on Triton
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
J.G. Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Troubles in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Trouble the Water
Derrick Austin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

Troy
Adèle Geras

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Truce
R.L. Mathewson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

True At First Light
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

True Believer
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

True Believer (Make Lemonade, #2)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2001

True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
Jack Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

True Biz
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

True Blue
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True Colors: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Martha Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

True Crime Story
Joseph Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

True Devotion to Mary
Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1712