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Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
Jay Shetty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Thin Wood Walls
David Patneaude

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Third Grade Angels
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Thirst
Varsha Bajaj

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Thirteen Days
Robert F. Kennedy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

This Be the Verse
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
Tiffany Jewell

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

This Book is Gay
Juno Dawson

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2014

This Book Will Bury Me
Ashley Winstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Gloria Anzaldua, ed., Cherrie Moraga, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

This Could Be Us
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

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

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

This Is a Love Story
Jessica Soffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

This Is a Photograph of Me
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

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 It Always Is
Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Her
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2019

This Is Just to Say
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

This Is My America
Kim Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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 Water
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

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 Why We Lied
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

This Morning I Pray for My Enemies
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

This Motherless Land
Nikki May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

This Must Be the Place
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki

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

This Other Eden
Paul Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

This Poison Heart
Kalynn Bayron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

This Present Darkness
Frank E. Peretti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Strange Eventful History
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

This Summer Will be Different
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

This Time Next Year
Sophie Cousens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

This Was Our Pact
Ryan Andrews

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1946

This World is not Conclusion
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

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

Those Empty Eyes
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Thousand Pieces of Gold
Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Three Dark Crowns
Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Three Daughters Of Eve
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Three Days in June
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1713

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1938

Three-Inch Teeth
C. J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Three Keys
Kelly Yang, Illustr. Maike Plenzke

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Three Little Words
Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2008

Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

Three Times Lucky
Sheila Turnage

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Three Wishes
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Three Women
Lisa Taddeo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Throne of the Fallen
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Through Gates of Splendor
Elisabeth Elliot

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1957

Through My Eyes
Ruby Bridges

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Through The Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

Through the Tunnel
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1955

Thunderhead
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Thunderstruck
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

Thyestes
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 65

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Lensey Namioka

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Tight
Torrey Maldonado

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Tightrope
Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Tilt
Emma Pattee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Time and Again
Jack Finney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Timeline
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999