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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A Tale For The Time Being
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Tale Of A Tub
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1704

A Tale of Three Kings: A Study of Brokenness
Gene Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

A Tangle of Knots
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

A Tempest
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

A Temporary Matter
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Thousand Steps into Night
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Time For Mercy
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Time to Kill
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Time To Talk
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1710

A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1739

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

A True Story
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1874

Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry
Rudolfo Anaya

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
John Freeman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Talking in Bed
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Carmine Gallo

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Tamas
Bhisham Sahni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Tamerlane
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1827

Tam O’Shanter
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1791

Tangerine
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Tartuffe
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1664

Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Grace M. Cho

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Ibtisam Barakat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Tattoo
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Gregory Boyle

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Teacher Man
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Tear it Down
Jack Gilbert

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership
R. David Edmunds

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

Teenage Wasteland
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Telephone Conversation
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Tell Me How It Ends
Valeria Luiselli

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Tell Me Three Things
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity
Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Tell No One
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Temple Grandin
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Tender Buttons [A Long Dress]
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

Tenth of December
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Terminus
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Terms and Conditions
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Terror at Bottle Creek
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Tesla's Attic
Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

Tex
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

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 Smoking
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thank You For Your Service
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Thank You, M'am
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

That Hideous Strength
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

That Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

That Was Then, This Is Now
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Theaetetus
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Thebaid
Statius, Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 92

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Theme for English B
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Then
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Theogony
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Theology
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

Theories of Relativity
Barbara Haworth-Attard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Theories of Time and Space
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

There is no Frigate like a Book
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1866

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Fiona Hill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

There's A Certain Slant Of Light
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

There There
Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Nancy E. Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Theseus
Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | BCE

These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020