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Travels With Charley
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

Travel Team
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1883

Trespasses
Louise Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Álvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Triangle
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Tricks
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Trifles
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1916

Triptych
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1209

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Kwame Mbalia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Triumph of The City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (2011)
Edward L. Glaeser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1601

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

Trojan Women
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Tropic of Orange
Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Trouble Don't Last
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Trouble in Mind
Alice Childress

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Trouble Is My Business
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Carla Shalaby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

True Biz
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

True Colors: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True Grit
Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

True Love
Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

True Love
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Mark Salzman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Truman
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Truman Doctrine
Harry Truman

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1947

Trumpet
Jackie Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Trust
Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Trust Exercise
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Truth and Bright Water
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Tuesdays at the Castle
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Tuesday’s with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Tula ["Books are door shaped"]
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Tumble
Celia C. Perez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Tunes for Bears to Dance To
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Tunnel of Bones
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Turtle in Paradise
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Turtles All the Way Down
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1853

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Twenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1910

Twenty Years Later
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Twilight
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Anna Deavere Smith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Twins
Illustr. Shannon Wright, Varian Johnson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Twisted
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Twisted
Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Twisted Games
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Twisted Hate
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4)
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Twisted Love
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Two Can Keep a Secret
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Two Degrees
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Two Gallants
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

Two Kinds
Amy Tan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Two Lorries
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Two Nights in Lisbon
Chris Pavone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Two Old Women
Velma Wallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Dorothy Allison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Two Roads
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Two Sisters Of Persephone
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Two Trains Running
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Two Twisted Crowns
Rachel Gillig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Two Wolves
Tristan Bancks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Two Words
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Typical American
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023