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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Taste of Eternity
Gisèle Pineau

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Taste of Honey
Kai Ashante Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Taste of Power
Elaine Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Testament of Hope
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Thief Of Time
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Thread of Grace
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Tidewater Morning
William Styron

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Tiger for Malgudi
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Time of Miracles
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Torch Against the Night
Sabaa Tahir

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Tribe Apart
Patricia Hersch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A True Story
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Tugging String
David Greenberg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Twist in the Tale
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Talkin' About Bessie
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book

Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult

Taming The Star Runner
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA

Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Teach Yourself How to Learn
Saundra Yancy McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA

Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Tell Me Your Dreams
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Tender at the Bone
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Tending to Grace
Kimberly Newton Fusco

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ten Indians
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Ten Little Indians
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Tennessee's Partner
Bret Harte

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
Robert Bernard Martin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult

Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Terrible Typhoid Mary
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade

Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima

Novel

Tess
Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Testimony: A Memoir
Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Testimony of Pilot
Barry Hannah

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Texaco
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Thanksgiving
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Thanks to My Mother
Schoschana Rabinovici

Fiction | Novel | YA

Thank You For Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult

That Championship Season
Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult

That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult

That Evening Sun
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

That Kind of Mother
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult

That Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult

That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

That Was Then, This Is Now
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA

Their Finest Hour
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Them Dark Days
William Dusinberre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriot
Clara Ingram Judson

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade

There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

There's a Girl in my Hammerlock
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult

There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

These Shallow Graves
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Tables Turned
William Morris

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book

The Taming of the Queen
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Technological Society
Jacques Ellul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Teenage Brain
Frances E. Jensen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Tennis Partner
Abraham Verghese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Testament
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Thing About Luck
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

The Things a Brother Knows
Dana Reinhardt

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult