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To One Coming North

Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

To Penshurst

Ben Jonson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1616

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

To Return To The Trees

Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Tornado

Betsy Byars

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

To Room Nineteen

Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

Deborah Heiligman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

To Sir with Love

E. R. Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Total Eclipse

Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1982

To The Diaspora

Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

To the Public

William Lloyd Garrison

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1831

To the Skylark

William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1825

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1648

Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Tourist Season

Brynne Weaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

To Waken An Old Lady

William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)

Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Toy Boat

Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Tracker

Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Tracks

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Robyn Davidson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

Tradition and the Individual Talent

T. S. Eliot

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1919

Tragedy and the Common Man

Arthur Miller

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1949

Trail of Lightning

Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Trampoline

Robert Gipe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Transgender Warriors

Leslie Feinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Translations

Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Translation State

Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Trapped

Michael Northrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Trash

Andy Mulligan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith Lewis Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Travel

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Traveling through the Dark

William Stafford

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

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

Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others

Stephen M. R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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