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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 Thief Of Time
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

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 Torch Against the Night
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

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

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

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

Tender at the Bone
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

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 Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

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

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
Michael Mandelbaum, Thomas L. Friedman

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

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 Taming of the Queen
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | 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

The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Third Plate
Dan Barber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Thousandth Floor
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1992

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Throat
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Tiffany Box
Kathleen Buckstaff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Tiger in the Tunnel
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1974

The Tiger's Bride
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Time in Between
David Bergen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Time of Voice
Robert Kelly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969