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To Be Of Use

Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

To Build a Fire

Jack London

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1902

To Da-Duh, In Memoriam

Paule Marshall

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

To Daffodils

Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1665

Today

Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Today Tonight Tomorrow

Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Today Will Be Different

Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

To Elsie

William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

Vivek Murthy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

To Have And Have Not

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

To Helen

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1831

To Hell with Dying

Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

To Help the Monkey Cross the River

Thomas Lux

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

To His Coy Mistress

Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

To His Excellency General Washington

Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

Neil Degrasse Tyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri, Transl. Morgan Giles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

To Live

Yu Hua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Toliver's Secret

Esther Wood Brady

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

To make a prairie

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Tom's Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

To My Dear and Loving Husband

Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

To My Mother

Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

To Night Owl From Dogfish

Meg Wolitzer, Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Too Big To Fail

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Too Bright to See

Kyle Lukoff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Took: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Too Late

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Too Loud A Solitude

Bohumil Hrabal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Too Much and Never Enough

Mary L. Trump

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

To One Coming North

Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Too Old for This

Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower

Bret Baier

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Touch Blue

Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

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

Tough Guy

Rachel Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Trial of the Sun Queen

Nisha J. Tuli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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