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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

A Taste of Eternity
Gisèle Pineau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Taste of Honey
Kai Ashante Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Taste of Power
Elaine Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

A Testament of Hope
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

A Theory of Dreaming
Ava Reid

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Thief Of Time
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Thousand Heartbeats
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

A Thread of Grace
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Tidewater Morning
William Styron

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

A Tiger for Malgudi
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Time of Miracles
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

A Tribe Apart
Patricia Hersch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Tugging String
David Greenberg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

A Twist in the Tale
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

Taft
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Take The Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success
Rory Vaden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1947

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Talkin' About Bessie
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2002

Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

Taming The Star Runner
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1835

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Teach Yourself How to Learn
Saundra Yancy McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Telephone
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1961

Tell Me Your Dreams
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

Tending to Grace
Kimberly Newton Fusco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ten Little Indians
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
Robert Bernard Martin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
Tracy Dobmeier, Wendy Katzman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Terminal Velocity
M. P. Woodward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Terrible Typhoid Mary
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima

Novel | Published in 1979

Tess
Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Testimony: A Memoir
Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Testimony of Pilot
Barry Hannah

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Texaco
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Thanksgiving
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Thanks to My Mother
Schoschana Rabinovici

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Thank You For Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

That Championship Season
Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

That Evening Sun
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

That Kind of Mother
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Them Dark Days
William Dusinberre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriot
Clara Ingram Judson

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

There's a Bug in My Blossom
J.C. Donaho

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

There's a Girl in my Hammerlock
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Therese
François Mauriac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

These Shallow Graves
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Tables Turned
William Morris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1902

The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Taming of the Queen
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

The Temporary Wife
Catharina Maura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Texas Murders
James Patterson, Andrew Bourelle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Thank You Economy
Gary Vaynerchuk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How to Think Like One
David Sklansky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Things a Brother Knows
Dana Reinhardt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010