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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Talk Bookish to Me
Kate Bromley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Talkin' About Bessie
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2002

Talking About Detective Fiction
P.D. James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
Lauren Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Talking at Night: A Novel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Talking to Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
Yanis Varoufakis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
Danielle S. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Talking to the Dead
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Carmine Gallo

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Tallgrass
Sandra Dallas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Tall, Tatted and Tempting
Tammy Falkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Talon
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Talons of Power
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Taltos
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Tamas
Bhisham Sahni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

Tamed
Emma Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Taming 7
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2024

Taming The Star Runner
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Tampa
Alissa Nutting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Tandia (The Power of One, #2)
Bryce Courtenay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Tangerine
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Tangled
Emma Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Tangled in Tinsel (The More the Merrier, #1)
Trilina Pucci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tangle of Need
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Sarah Leavitt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Tapping the Billionaire
Max Monroe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Taran Wanderer
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Tara Road
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Tar Baby
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Tarka the Otter
Henry Williamson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Tartuffe
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1664

Tarzan and the Ant Men (Tarzan, #10)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan, #5)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Tarzan the Untamed (Tarzan, #7)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Taste of Darkness (Darkness, #2)
Katie Reus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Grace M. Cho

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Ibtisam Barakat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Tatiana and Alexander
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tatiana (Arkady Renko, #8)
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Tattered
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tattered Stars
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tau Zero
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Teacher Man
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom
Linda Christensen

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Doug Lemov

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Rafe Esquith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Teach Yourself How to Learn
Saundra Yancy McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Teams That Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership
Ryan T. Hartwig, Warren Bird

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Teardrop (Teardrop, #1)
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Tears of Tess
Pepper Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tears of the Moon
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Tease
Melanie Harlow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Tea with the Black Dragon (Black Dragon, #1)
R.A. MacAvoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership
R. David Edmunds

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

Teen Idol
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Teen Titans: Raven (Teen Titans, #1)
Kami Garcia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Telephone
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1961

Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
Erika Krouse

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Tell Me Lies
J.P. Pomare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Marjorie Kellogg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Tell Me Three Things
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Tell Me What Really Happened
Chelsea Sedoti

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity
Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Tell Me Your Dreams
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Tell No One
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Tempest
Julie Cross

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Temple
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002