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Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1601

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

Trojan Women
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Troll: A Love Story
Johanna Sinisalo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Tropic of Orange
Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Trouble
Non Pratt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Trouble Don't Last
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Trouble in Mind
Lucie Brock-Broido

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Trouble in Mind (Illuminations)
Alice Childress

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2022

Trouble in the Heartland
Joe Clifford

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Leah Remini

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Trouble on Triton
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
J.G. Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Trouble the Water
Derrick Austin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

Troy
Adèle Geras

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Truce
R.L. Mathewson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
Jim Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

True At First Light
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

True Believer
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

True Believer (Make Lemonade, #2)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2002

True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
Jack Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

True Biz
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

True Blue
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True Colors: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Martha Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

True Crime Story
Joseph Knox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

True Devotion to Mary
Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

True Evil
Dick Hill, Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

True Grit
Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

True Love Story
Willow Aster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

True Stories of the Second World War
Paul Dowswell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

True West
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

True Women
Janice Woods Windle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Truly Devious
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Truly, Madly, Deeply
Faraaz Kazi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Truman
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Trumpet
Jackie Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Trust
Hernan Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Trust Exercise
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Trust Her
Flynn Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Trust No One
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Truth
Aleatha Romig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Truth and Beauty
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Truth and Bright Water
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Truth or Beard
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Truthwitch
Susan Dennard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Try
Ella Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Try Me
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tryst Six Venom
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Tsarina
Ellen Alpsten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tsotsi
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Tuesdays at the Castle
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Tuf Voyaging
George R.R. Martin

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Tughlaq: A Play in Thirteen Scenes
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Tulia
Nate Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Tulip Fever
Deborah Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Tumble
Celia C. Perez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Tunes for Bears to Dance To
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Tunnel of Bones
Victoria Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Tunnels of Blood
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1993

Turbo Twenty-Three (Stephanie Plum, #23)
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return To His Jewish Family
Stephen J. Dubner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Turkish Embassy Letters
Mary Wortley Montagu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Turnabout
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Turn Coat
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Marc Parent

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Turn of Mind
Alice LaPlante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Mark Adams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Turtle in Paradise
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Turtles All the Way Down
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Turtle Under Ice
Juleah del Rosario

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2020

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
Adam Kay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Tweet Cute
Emma Lord

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

Twelve
Nick McDonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Twelve Days
Teresa Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Twelve Sharp
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006