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Temple Grandin

Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Temporary

Hilary Leichter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tempt

Melanie Harlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Temptation

Ivy Smoak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tempted

Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Tempted by the Devil

Michelle Heard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Tempting Fate

Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Tempting the Beast

Lora Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Tempting the Best Man

Jennifer L. Armentrout, J. Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tempting the Player

J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tempt Me at Twilight

Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Tempt Me (The Wolf Hotel, #1)

Nina West, K.A. Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ten

Gretchen McNeil

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ten Big Ones

Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

Ten Days In A Mad-House

Nellie Bly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1887

Ten Days That Shook the World

John Reed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

Tender at the Bone

Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)

Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tending to Grace

Kimberly Newton Fusco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Fareed Zakaria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Ten Little Indians

Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart

Robert Bernard Martin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Ten Steps to Nanette

Hannah Gadsby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Tenth Grade Bleeds

Heather Brewer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Ten Things I Hate About Me

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ten Things I Love About You

Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Ten Thousand Saints

Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Ten Thousand Skies Above You

Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Tent of Miracles

Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord

Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Term Limits

Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Terms and Conditions

Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Terms of Endearment

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Terra Alta (Terra Alta, #1)

Javier Cercas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Terrible Typhoid Mary

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Terrier

Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Territory of Light

Yuko Tsushima

Novel | Published in 1979

Terror at Bottle Creek

Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

Tom Stanton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence

Mark Juergensmeyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Tesla's Attic

Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Tess

Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

Rachel Hartman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Testament

Nino Ricci

Fiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 2004

Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

Testimony

Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Testimony: A Memoir

Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Testimony of Pilot

Barry Hannah

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Test of the Twins

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

Cordelia Fine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Tex

S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

Texaco

Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tex: Englische LektÃƒ¼re fÃƒ¼r das 5. und 6. Lernjahr

Susan Eloise Hinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Th1rt3en

Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Thankless in Death

J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Thanksgiving

Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Thanks to My Mother

Schoschana Rabinovici

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

Jay Heinrichs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Thank You For Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Thank You for Listening

Julia Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Thank You for Smoking

Christopher Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Thank You For Your Service

David Finkel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)

P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

That Boy

Jillian Dodd

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

That Championship Season

Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

That Evening Sun

William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

That Hideous Strength

C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

That Kind of Guy

Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

That Kind of Mother

Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence

Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Month in Tuscany

Inglath Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

That Night

Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

Peter Novick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

That Old Ace in the Hole

Annie Proulx

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

That's Not My Name

Megan Lally

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

That's Not What Happened

Kody Kepinger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

That Summer

Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

That They May Face the Rising Sun

John McGahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

Kimberly Lemming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, #2)

Kimberly Lemming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

That Time I Joined the Circus

J.J. Howard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

That Time I Loved You

Carrianne Leung

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2018

That Used to Be Us

Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

That Was Then, This Is Now

S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending

Frédéric Bastiat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Theaetetus

Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Theatre

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001