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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Laura Ruby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Angel on My Chest
Leslie Pietrzyk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
Allison Holker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

This House of Sky
Ivan Doig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

This I Believe II
Jay Allison, ed., Dan Gediman, ed.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

This Inevitable Ruin
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

This is Just to Say
Joyce Sidman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2012

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

This is What Happy Looks Like
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Lullaby
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

This Perfect Day
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

This Place Is Dry
Vicki Cobb

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

This Side of Brightness
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

This Song Will Save Your Life
Leila Sales

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

This Time of Dying
Reina James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

This Was Our Valley
Shirlee Matheson, Earl K. Pollon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Thomas Wyatt
Susan Brigden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Thornhedge
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2023

Those We Thought We Knew
David Joy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Those Who Save Us
Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Thr3e
Ted Dekker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Three Black Swans
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Three Cups of Tea
David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Three Lives
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Three Sisters
Heather Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Three Sisters, Three Queens
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Three Tall Women
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Throne of Secrets
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Tiger Eyes
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Tiger, Tiger
James Patterson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Tiger Woods
Jeff Benedict

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Tik-Tok
John Sladek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Time Pimp
Garrett Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Time's Arrow
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Time Stops for No Mouse
Michael Hoeye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

Tinderbox
Robert W. Fieseler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tiny Alice
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
Deborah Hopkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

To a God Unknown
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

To a Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

To Be a Cat
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Tobermory
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

To Be Where You Are
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Toby's Room
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

To Capture What We Cannot Keep
Beatrice Colin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Tocqueville
Khaled Mattawa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

To End All Wars
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

To Have or to Be?
Erich Fromm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Tolstoy: A Biography
A. N. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Tomboy
Liz Prince

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2006

Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1857

Tomorrow, When the War Began
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Tom's Crossing
Mark Z. Danielewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Dan Fagin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

To My Senses
Alexandrea Weis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Tonight on the Titanic
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Tonio Kroger
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

Too Good to Be True
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Too Late the Phalarope
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

To Shape a Dragon's Breath
Moniquill Blackgoose

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

To Siberia
Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

To Sir Phillip, With Love
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

To Swallow the Earth
Ransom Wilcox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

To the Bright Edge of the World
Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

To the End of June
Cris Beam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

To the Last Breath
Carlton Stowers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

To the North
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Towards a Poor Theatre
Jerzy Grotowski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Townie
Andre Dubus III

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
William T. Hoston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Trace
Lauret Savoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Trail of Broken Wings
Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Train Whistle Guitar
Albert Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

TransAtlantic
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Transit
Abdourahman A. Waberi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Travels with Lizbeth
Lars Eighner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Travesties
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974