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Timebound
Rysa Walker

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Time Enough for Love
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Time for the Stars
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Timekeeper (Timekeeper, #1)
Tara Sim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Timeless
Gail Carriger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Timeline
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Time Must Have a Stop
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Time of the Twins
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Time Out of Joint
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Time Pimp
Garrett Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Time's Arrow
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Timescape
Gregory Benford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Time's Convert (All Souls, #4)
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Time Stops for No Mouse
Michael Hoeye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Time Without Number
Daniel Berrigan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Timid
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

Timothy of the Cay (The Cay, #2)
Theodore Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Tinderbox
Robert W. Fieseler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tinderbox (Flashpoint, #1)
Rachel Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tinfoil Butterfly
Rachel Eve Moulton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Tinkers
Paul Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Tin Man: A Graphic Novel
Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Tintin in America (Tintin #3 )
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tiny Alice
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Tiny Habits
BJ Fogg PhD

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
B. J. Fogg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
Christie Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Tirant lo Blanc
Joanot Martorell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

T is for Trespass
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Robert Specht

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Tis the Season for Revenge
Morgan Elizabeth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Titan (Gaea, #1)
John Varley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
Deborah Hopkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Tithonus
Alfred Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Tituba of Salem Village
Ann Petry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Titus: A Comrade of the Cross
Florence Morse Kingsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

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

To A Waterfowl
William Cullen Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Toba Tek Singh: Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

To Be a Slave
Julius Lester

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1968

Tobermory
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Toby's Room
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Toby Tyler: Or Ten Weeks With a Circus
James Otis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

To Capture What We Cannot Keep
Beatrice Colin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Tocqueville
Khaled Mattawa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

To Da-Duh, In Memoriam
Paule Marshall

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

Today Tonight Tomorrow
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

To Die For (The 6:20 Man, #3)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Tod of the Fens
Elinor Whitney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

To End All Wars
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

To Green Angel Tower
Tad Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

To Have And Have Not
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

To Have and to Hold
Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Tokyo Ever After
Emiko Jean

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Tokyo-Montana Express
Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri, Transl. Morgan Giles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

To Live
Yu Hua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

To Love Jason Thorn
Ella Maise

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Tolstoy: A Biography
A. N. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Tolstoy: A Russian Life
Rosamund Bartlett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Tomas and the Red Headed Angel
Marion Garthwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Tom Jones: Volume 1
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Tom Lake
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Charles Sheffield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marías

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001