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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

Tribulation Force
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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'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 2011

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 (Cormoran Strike, #5)
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Trouble Don't Last
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Trouble in Mind
Alice Childress

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

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 (Paradise, #3)
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 2006

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

True Evil
Dick Hill, Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

True Grit
Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

True Love Story
Willow Aster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

True Stories of the Second World War
Paul Dowswell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1900

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
Beth Macy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

True West
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

True Women
Janice Woods Windle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Truly, Madly, Deeply
Faraaz Kazi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Truman
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Trumpet
Jackie Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Trust
Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others
Stephen M.R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Trustee from the Toolroom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Trust Exercise
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Trust Her
Flynn Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Trust No One
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Truth
Aleatha Romig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Truth and Beauty
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Truth and Bright Water
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Truth or Beard
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
Michelle Good

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Truthwitch
Susan Dennard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Try
Ella Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Try Me
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tryst Six Venom
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Tsarina
Ellen Alpsten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Tsotsi
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Tuesdays at the Castle
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Tuesday’s with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997