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The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Third Angel
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Third Daughter
Talia Carner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Third Eye
T. Lobsang Rampa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Third Level
Jack Finney

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Third Man
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Third Mushroom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Third Option
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Third Plate
Dan Barber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley Eisenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
Richard J. Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
Richard J. Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation 1933-1939

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
Elizabeth C. Economy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Third Twin
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Third Victim
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Third Wife
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Thirst
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Thirteenth Child
Erin A. Craig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Thirty Nine Steps
John Buchan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Thomas Berryman Number
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Thought-Fox
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Tom Lin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
Jennifer Graham, Rob Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Thousand Orcs
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Thousandth Floor
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Thread Collectors
Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin, Transl. Ken Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Megan Kate Nelson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Three-Day Blow
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

The Three Evangelists (Three Evangelists, #1)
Fred Vargas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1992

The Three Miss Margarets (Miss Margarets #1)
Louise Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
Philip Kapleau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Three (The Three, #1)
Sarah Lotz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
Julie Checkoway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Threshing Circle
Neil Grimmett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Throat
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Throne of Fire
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Throwback Special
Chris Bachelder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Thurber Carnival
James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Tide Between Us: An Irish-Caribbean Story of Slavery & Emancipation (The O'Neill Trilogy Book 1)
Olive Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Tiffany Box
Kathleen Buckstaff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Tiger Flu
Larissa Lai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Tiger in the Smoke (Albert Campion Mystery, #14)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Tiger in the Tunnel
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1974

The Tiger Rising
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Tiger's Bride
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1979

The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Judith Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Tilted World
Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)
Chris Hammer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Time Between
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Time Hop Coffee Shop
Phaedra Patrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Time in Between
David Bergen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher W. Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1895

The Time of Contempt
Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Time of My Life
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Time of Our Singing
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Time of Voice
Robert Kelly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

The Time of Your Life
William Saroyan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

The Time Paradox
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Time Trap
Henry Kuttner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Ian Mortimer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Titanic Sisters
Patricia Falvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Tobacco Wives
Adele Myers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Toilet Paper Tigers
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Toll
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Tomb (Repairman Jack, #1)
F. Paul Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

The Tools
Phil Stutz, Barry Michels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Topeka School
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
Bronnie Ware

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Torrents of Spring
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926