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Tell Me Your Dreams
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Tell No One
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Tempest
Julie Cross

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Temple
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Temple Grandin
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Temporary
Hilary Leichter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tempt
Melanie Harlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Temptation
Ivy Smoak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Tempted
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Tempted by the Devil
Michelle Heard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Tempting Fate
Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tempting the Beast
Lora Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Tempting the Best Man
Jennifer L. Armentrout, J. Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tempting the Player
J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tempt Me at Twilight
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Tempt Me (The Wolf Hotel, #1)
Nina West, K.A. Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Ten
Gretchen McNeil

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ten Big Ones
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Ten Days in a Mad-House
Nellie Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

Ten Days In A Mad-House
Nellie Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

Ten Days that Shook the World

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

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

Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Tending to Grace
Kimberly Newton Fusco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Steps to Nanette
Hannah Gadsby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Tenth Grade Bleeds
Heather Brewer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ten Things I Love About You
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Ten Thousand Skies Above You
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Term Limits
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Terms and Conditions
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Terms of Endearment

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Terms of Enlistment
Marko Kloos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Terra Alta (Terra Alta, #1)
Javier Cercas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Terrible Typhoid Mary
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Terrier
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima

Novel | Published in 1979

Terror at Bottle Creek
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
Tom Stanton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Mark Juergensmeyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Tesla's Attic
Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Tess
Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)
Rachel Hartman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Testament
Nino Ricci

Fiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 2002

Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

Testimony
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Testimony: A Memoir
Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Testimony of Pilot
Barry Hannah

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Test of the Twins
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Tex
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

Texaco
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tex: Englische Lektüre für das 5. und 6. Lernjahr
Susan Eloise Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Th1rt3en
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Thankless in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Thanksgiving
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Thanks to My Mother
Schoschana Rabinovici

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
Jay Heinrichs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Thank You For Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Thank You for Listening
Julia Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thank You For Your Service
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
Jarvis Jay Masters

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

That Boy
Jillian Dodd

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

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 Hideous Strength
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

That Kind of Guy
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

That Kind of Mother
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Month in Tuscany
Inglath Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

That Night
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession
Peter Novick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

That Old Ace in the Hole
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

That's Not My Name
Megan Lally

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

That's Not What Happened
Kody Kepinger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

That Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

That They May Face the Rising Sun
John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Kimberly Lemming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, #2)
Kimberly Lemming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022