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A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

A Tale of three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
Gene Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Talk to Teachers
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

A Tangle of Knots (A Tangle of Knots, #1)
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

A Temporary Matter
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Thousand Never Evers
Shana Burg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Thousand Steps into Night
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Time To Talk
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

A Town Called Solace
Mary Lawson, Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1739

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith, Betty Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

A True Story
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1874

Table for Two
Amor Towles

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2024

Take Back the Block
Chrystal D. Giles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry
Rudolfo Anaya

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995

Taking Sides
Gary Soto

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
Armistead Maupin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
John Freeman, John Freeman

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Talking at Night: A Novel
Claire Daverley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Talking in Bed
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Tamas
Bhisham Sahni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Tamerlane
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Tam O’Shanter
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1791

Tangerine
Danny De Vito, Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Tar Baby
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Tartuffe
Molière, Martin Sorrell, Curtis Hidden Page

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Vincent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Tastes Like War
Grace M. Cho

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Ibtisam Barakat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Tattoo
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Tear it Down
Jack Gilbert

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Teddy
J. D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Teenage Wasteland
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2020

Telephone Conversation
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Valeria Luiselli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Tell Me Three Things
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Tell No One
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tender Buttons [A Long Dress]
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Tender Is the Flesh
Sarah Moses, Agustina Bazterrica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tender Is the Night
Amor Towles, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ten Indians
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

Tennessee's Partner
Bret Harte

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1869

Tenth of December
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Terminus
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Terms and Conditions (Dreamland Billionaires, #2)
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Terror at Bottle Creek
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret R. Higonnet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Testament of Youth
Mark Bostridge, Shirley Williams, Vera Brittain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Tex
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Thank You for Smoking
Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Thank You M'Am
Allen Hughes, Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | Published in 1991

That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)
C. S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

That's Not What Happened
Kody Keplinger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

That Summer
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1998

Theaetetus
Robin H. Waterfield, Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Thebaid
Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce, Statius

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 92