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The Thomas Berryman Number
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Thought-Fox
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Tom Lin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
Jennifer Graham, Rob Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Thousand Orcs
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Thousandth Floor
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Thread Collectors
Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin, Transl. Ken Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Three-Day Blow
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Three Evangelists (Three Evangelists, #1)
Fred Vargas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell

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

The Three Miss Margarets (Miss Margarets #1)
Louise Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Three (The Three, #1)
Sarah Lotz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Threshing Circle
Neil Grimmett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Throat
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Throne of Fire
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Throwback Special
Chris Bachelder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Thurber Carnival
James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Tiffany Box
Kathleen Buckstaff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Tiger
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Tiger Flu
Larissa Lai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Tiger in the Tunnel
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1974

The Tiger Rising
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Tiger's Bride
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Judith Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Tilted World
Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)
Chris Hammer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Time Between
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Time in Between
Daniel Hahn, María Dueñas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher W. Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1895

The Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2)
David French, Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Time of My Life
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Time of Our Singing
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

The Time of Your Life
William Saroyan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Time Paradox
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Time Trap
Henry Kuttner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Titanic Sisters
Patricia Falvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Tobacco Wives
Adele Myers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Toilet Paper Tigers
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Toll
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Tomb (Repairman Jack, #1)
F. Paul Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

The Tommyknockers
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Topeka School
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Torrents of Spring
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Tortilla Curtain
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
Adrianna Cuevas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Toughest Indian in the World
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Tourist Attraction
Sarah Morgenthaler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Tourist (Milo Weaver, #1)
Olen Steinhauer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Tower of Nero
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Tower of the Swallow
Transl. David French, Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
Julia Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1)
Franklin W. Dixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The Town
Conrad Richter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Town (The Snopes Trilogy, #2)
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Toynbee Convector
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

The Trackers
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Tracker: The True Story of Tom Brown Jr.
Tom Brown Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Trade Off
Samantha Greene Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Tragedy Of Great Power Politics
John J. Mearsheimer

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Tragedy of Mariam
Elizabeth Cary

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

The Tragedy Paper
Elizabeth LaBan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Trail
Ethan Gallogly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Trail of Conflict
Emilie Loring

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Train to Crystal City
Jan Jarboe Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
Seth Dickinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Traitor Queen
Danielle L. Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Traitor's Wife
Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Transall Saga
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980