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Tales of the Greek Heroes
Roger Lancelyn Green

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

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

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
Lauren Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Talking at Night: A Novel
Claire Daverley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Taming 7
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Tam O’Shanter
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1791

Tangerine
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1853

Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Tar Baby
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

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 Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Teddy
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

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 Everything
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Tell Me How It Ends
Valeria Luiselli

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Tell Me Lies
Carola Lovering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tell Me Three Things
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Tell Me What You Did
Carter Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Tell No One
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Temple Grandin
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Ten Days In A Mad-House
Nellie Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Ten Indians
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

Tennessee's Partner
Bret Harte

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1869

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's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
Elyse Myers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

That's Not My Name
Megan Lally

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

That's Not What Happened
Kody Keplinger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

That Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Kimberly Lemming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

The 100
Kass Morgan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson, Transl. Rod Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The 15 Invaluable Laws Of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The 21 Balloons
William Pene du Bois

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The 48 Laws Of Power
Robert Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The 4 Disciplines Of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives (2017)
Dashka Slater

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2017

The 5 Am Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
Robin Sharma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Gary Chapman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
Mel Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
Sahil Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The 6:20 Man
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Sean Covey

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1998

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Abduction
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Abolition of Man
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

The Absent Author
Ron Roy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Academy
T. Z. Layton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022