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The Too-Perfect Saint

The Too-Perfect Saint (完璧すぎて可愛げがないと婚約破棄された聖女は隣国に売られる) is a Japanese fantasy romance light novel by Kōki Fuyutsuki and Masami about saint Philia Adenauer, sold to Parnacorta after prince Julius breaks their engagement; adapted into manga and a 2025 Troyca anime.

The Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring (Veshnie vody, Вешние воды) is an 1872 novella by Ivan Turgenev about a Russian landowner recalling a lost love in Frankfurt.

The Tortoise and the Hare

The Tortoise and the Hare (Greek: Χελώνη και λαγωός), also "The Hare and the Tortoise", is Aesop's fable, Perry 226, ATU 275A, in which a slow tortoise beats a sleeping, overconfident hare; retold by La Fontaine (1668), the Grimms, Dunsany, and modern picturebooks.

The Tót Family

The Tót Family (Hungarian: Tóték) is a tragicomedy by Hungarian writer István Örkény, first published as a novella in 1966 and generally accepted as Hungary's first absurd drama.

The Toughest Indian in the World

The Toughest Indian in the World is a 2000 short story collection by Sherman Alexie about urban Indians caught between reservation life and the white middle class.

The Tower of Nero

The Tower of Nero is a 2020 fantasy novel by Rick Riordan, where Apollo (as Lester Papadopoulos) fights Nero and Python to regain his place on Olympus.

The Tragedy of Man

The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája) is an 1861 Hungarian dramatic poem by Imre Madách, in which Adam witnesses visions of human history guided by Lucifer.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

The Traitor Baru Cormorant (2015) is Seth Dickinson's debut fantasy novel and first of The Masquerade series, following Taranoke-born accountant Baru Cormorant's secret campaign to destroy the Empire of Masks through economics and betrayal.

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

The Travelling Cat Chronicles (旅猫リポート) is a Japanese road novel by Hiro Arikawa about a young man and his cat Nana traveling across Japan, published in 2012.

The Travels of al-Abdari

The Travels of al-Abdari, or al-Rihla al-Maghribiyya, is a major 13th-century Arabic travel account by the Moroccan scholar al-Abdari, recording his 1289 hajj journey from the Maghreb to Mecca.

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela is a twelfth-century Hebrew travel account describing Benjamin ben Jonah's journey from Tudela, Spain, through Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

The Travels of Benjamin the Third

The Travels of Benjamin the Third (Hebrew: מסעות בנימין השלישי) is a satirical novella by Mendele Mocher Sforim, published in Yiddish in 1878 and reworked into Hebrew in 1896 and 1911.

The Travels of Ibn Fadlan

The Travels of Ibn Fadlan, also called the Risāla, is a tenth-century Arabic travel account by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān, sent from Baghdad to the Volga Bulghars in 921–922.

The Travels of Lao Can

The Travels of Lao Can (老残游记) is a 1903 novel by Liu E following an itinerant physician through Shandong Province, one of the four great late Qing condemnation novels.

The Travels of Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo (Le Devisement du monde, Il Milione), 1298 account of Asia dictated by Venetian merchant Marco Polo to cellmate Rustichello da Pisa in Genoa; survives in 141 manuscripts, 'Travels' title from Ramusio 1559.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

The Book of John Mandeville is a travel narrative, written around 1356 in Anglo-Norman French, claiming to be by Sir John Mandeville, an English knight of St Albans.

The Travels of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

The Travels of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, known in Georgian as Journey to Europe, is an early 18th-century Georgian travel memoir recording Orbeliani's diplomatic mission to France, Italy, and Malta from 1713 to 1716.

The Tree of Desire

The Tree of Desire (Georgian: Natvris Khe) is a 1962 prose work by Georgian writer Giorgi Leonidze and the acclaimed Georgian film adapted from it.

The Tree of Man

The Tree of Man is a 1955 novel by Australian writer Patrick White following the pioneering couple Stan and Amy Parker across half a century of rural life.

The Trench (novel)

The Trench (The Trench: Meg 2) is Steve Alten's 1999 science fiction horror novel, second in the MEG series, in which the captive Megalodon Angel escapes a Monterey aquarium and Jonas Taylor returns to the Mariana Trench.

The Trespasser (book)

The Trespasser names several books: D. H. Lawrence's second novel (1912, based on Helen Corke's affair), Tana French's sixth Dublin Murder Squad crime novel (2016), plus works by Gilbert Parker and Paul Doiron.

The Trial

The Trial (German: Der Process) is an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka, written in 1914–1915, in which Josef K. is arrested for a crime never revealed to him.

The Trials of Apollo

The Trials of Apollo is Rick Riordan's five-book Camp Half-Blood Chronicles series (2016–2020), also called Lester Papadopoulos's trials, in which the god Apollo, cast down by Zeus as a mortal teen, must restore five dark Oracles to defeat the Roman emperors' Triumvirate.

The Trials of Brother Jero

The Trials of Brother Jero is a two-act satirical comedy by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, first performed in 1960, about a con-man prophet preaching on Bar Beach, Lagos.

The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda

The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda (Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda) is Miguel de Cervantes' posthumous Byzantine romance novel, published in Madrid in 1617.

The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus

The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus is an epic historical poem in English by Filipino poet Cirilo F. Bautista, comprising three book-length epics covering Philippine history from 1521 to 1986.

The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women (Troades) is a tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, first performed in 415 BCE, portraying Troy's captive women as they are assigned as slaves to Greek masters.

The Trouble with Nigeria

The Trouble with Nigeria is a short political essay by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, published in 1983, arguing that the country's problem is the failure of its leaders.

The True Story of Ah Q

The True Story of Ah Q (阿Q正传) is a satirical novella by Lu Xun, serialized in 1921 and 1922 and best known for its "spiritual victory method."

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) is Rabih Alameddine's seventh novel, a tragicomic Beirut-set story of 63-year-old philosophy teacher Raja and his mother Zalfa, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.