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The Zero
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Zigzag Way
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Think Like a Dinosaur
James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1995

Third and Indiana
Steve Lopez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Thirteen Ways of Looking
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

This Perfect Day
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

This Side of Brightness
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

This Time of Dying
Reina James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Those Who Save Us
Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Three Sisters, Three Queens
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Tinderbox
Robert W. Fieseler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

To a God Unknown
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

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

To My Senses
Alexandrea Weis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

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 Siberia
Per Petterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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

Trail of Broken Wings
Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Train Dreams
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Triangle
Teri White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tripmaster Monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Trouble on Triton
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

True At First Light
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tulip Fever
Deborah Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Twelve
Nick McDonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Twelve Days
Teresa Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
Robyn Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Twilight in Delhi
Ahmed Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Two Solitudes
Hugh Maclennan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Umbertina
Helen Barolini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Underground Airlines
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Under the Net
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Under the Skin: A Novel
James Carlos Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

UnGuarded
Ashley Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Unique
Alison Allen-Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Unraveled
C.J. Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Until I Find You
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Us
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Valhalla Rising
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Varina
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Veil of Roses
Laura Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Vernon God Little
D.B.C. Pierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Vinegar Girl
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Violets Are Blue
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Virgil
Steve Orlando

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2020

V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Visible Worlds
Marilyn Bowering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Voices in the City
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Voyeur
Daniel Judson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Waiting
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Waiting for an Angel
Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Waking Gods
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Waking Lions
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Walden Two
B. F. Skinner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Walkin' the Dog
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

War and Turpentine
Stefan Hertmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Warrior's Heart
Jackie Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wartime Lies
Louis Begley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

War Trash
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Luke Whisnant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Watch Me Disappear
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Ways of Dying
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Water
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Weather
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Weep Not, Child
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Welcome to Braggsville
T. Geronimo Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

We the Living
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

What is Visible
Kimberly Elkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

What's Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

What Was Promised
Tobias Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

What Will People Say?
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

When God was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011