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Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Today Will Be Different

Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

To Have And Have Not

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri, Transl. Morgan Giles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

To Live

Yu Hua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Too Late

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Too Loud A Solitude

Bohumil Hrabal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Tracks

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Translation State

Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Trespasses

Louise Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Triangle

Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Triptych

Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Tropic of Orange

Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

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

Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Trumpet

Jackie Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Twenty Years Later

Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Nights in Lisbon

Chris Pavone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Two Old Women

Velma Wallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Typical American

Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Ubik

Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Ugly Love

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Under the Dome

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Under The Feet Of Jesus

Helena Maria Viramontes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Under the Udala Trees

Chinelo Okparanta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Under the Whispering Door

T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Underworld

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Unlikely Animals

Annie Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Unsheltered

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Unspeakable Things

Jess Lourey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Untouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Upgrade

Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Us Against You

Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

Junji Ito, Transl. Yuji Oniki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

V.

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Valentine

Elizabeth Wetmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Variation

Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Velvet Was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Verity

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Veronika Decides To Die

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Vicious

L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victory City

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Violeta

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Virgil Wander

Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Volkswagen Blues

Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Voyage In The Dark

Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Voyager

Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Waiting for the Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Waiting to Exhale

Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Wandering Stars: A Novel

Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Want to Know a Secret?

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ward D

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

War with the Newts

Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Watching You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Waterland

Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Waterlily

Ella Cara Deloria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

We All Live Here

Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

We All Want Impossible Things

Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Are All the Same in the Dark

Julia Heaberlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

We Are Called to Rise

Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Not Like Them

Christine Pride, Jo Piazza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are the Brennans

Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Cast a Shadow

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

We Do Not Part

Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Wellness

Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel

Lauren Grodstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013