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This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! (Macdonald Hall, #1)
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

This Chair Rocks
Ashton Applewhite

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

This Close to Okay
Leesa Cross-Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

This Girl (Slammed, #3)
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War
Bruce Catton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

This Heart of Mine
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

This Heart of Mine (Whiskey Creek, #8)
Brenda Novak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Cole Arthur Riley

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2022

This House is Not for Sale
E.C. Osondu

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

This House of Sky
Ivan Doig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

This I Believe II
Jay Allison, ed., Dan Gediman, ed.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Jay Allison, Dan Gediman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

This Immortal
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

This Is All I Got
Lauren Sandler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

This Is Happiness
Niall Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

This Is How I Lied
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

This Is How It Always Is
Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

This is How it Ends
Eva Dolan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2019

This is Just to Say
Joyce Sidman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

This Is My America
Kim Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

This is Not a Test
Courtney Summers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2012

This Isn't What It Looks Like (Secret, #4)
Pseudonymous Bosch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

This Is Our Story
Ashley Elston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

This Is Our Youth
Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Don Lemon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

This is What Happy Looks Like
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

This Is Where It Ends
Marieke Nijkamp

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

This Is Where the World Ends
Amy Zhang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

This Is Woman's Work: Calling Forth Your Inner Council of Wise, Brave, Crazy, Rebellious, Loving, Luminous Selves
Dominique Christina

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More
Uma Naidoo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Nancy J. Cavanaugh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
Suketu Mehta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

This Lie Will Kill You
Chelsea Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Martin Hägglund

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II
Andrew Fukuda

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

This Lullaby
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

This Man
Jodi Ellen Malpas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

This Man Confessed
Jodi Ellen Malpas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

This Might Hurt
Stephanie Wrobel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

This Must Be the Place
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
Annie Grace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2014

This Other Eden
Ben Elton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

This Perfect Day
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

This Place Is Dry
Vicki Cobb

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

This Poison Heart
Kalynn Bayron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

This Present Darkness
Frank E. Peretti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

This Rough Magic
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1)
V. E. Schwab, Victoria E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

This Shattered World
Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

This Side of Brightness
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

This Side of Home
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

This Side of the Grave
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

This Song Will Save Your Life
Leila Sales

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Spells Love
Kate Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

This Thing Between Us
Gus Moreno

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

This Thing of Darkness
Harry Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

This Time Next Year
Sophie Cousens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

This Time of Dying
Reina James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
Carol Burnett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Thistlefoot
GennaRose Nethercott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

This Was a Man
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

This Was Our Valley
Shirlee Matheson, Earl K. Pollon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1946

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Morgan Jerkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

This Will Only Hurt a Little
Busy Philipps

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

This Winter
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

This World We Live In
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

This Woven Kingdom
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

This Year It Will Be Different
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel
John Guy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Thomas the Rhymer
Ellen Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Thomas Wyatt
Susan Brigden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Thornhedge
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Thornhill
Pam Smy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Thorns
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Thor, Vol. 1: The Goddess of Thunder
Jason Aaron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Those Across the River
Christopher Buehlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011