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The Truth About Stories
The Truth About Stories is a 2003 book by Thomas King comprising his five Massey Lectures for CBC Radio, on how stories shape who we are.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert) is Joël Dicker's 2012 literary thriller about writer Marcus Goldman clearing mentor Harry Quebert of Nola Kellergan's 1975 murder; Goncourt finalist, Grand Prix du Roman winner, adapted for Epix in 2018.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (miniseries)
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is a 2018 ten-episode Epix miniseries adapted from Joël Dicker's novel, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., and Virginia Madsen, filmed in Montreal.
The Tuner of Silences
The Tuner of Silences (O afinador de silêncios) is a 2009 novel by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, published in Portugal as Jesusalém and narrated by an eleven-year-old boy.
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (夏へのトンネル、さよならの出口)
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (夏へのトンネル、さよならの出口) is Mei Hachimoku's 2019 debut light novel about the wish-granting, aging Urashima Tunnel, adapted into a 2022 CLAP anime film directed by Tomohisa Taguchi.
The Turkish Embassy Letters
The Turkish Embassy Letters is a collection by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu describing the Ottoman Empire, where she lived from 1716 to 1718 during her husband's ambassadorial mission.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw: Henry James's 1898 Gothic novella (Collier's Weekly serial; The Two Magics; 1908 New York Edition) about a governess at Bly, the ghosts Quint and Jessel, and the real-versus-hallucinated debate; adapted by Britten, The Innocents, and Bly Manor.
The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев)
The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев) is a 1928 satirical novel by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov in which Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov hunt diamonds hidden in one of twelve chairs; serialized in 30 Days, banned 1948–1956, often filmed.
The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記)
The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Juuni Kokuki) is Fuyumi Ono's Japanese fantasy novel series begun in 1991, set in twelve kingdoms where kirin choose kings under heaven's mandate; 7.5 million copies sold, 45-episode anime.
The Twits
The Twits is Roald Dahl's 1980 children's novel, illustrated by Quentin Blake, about the cruel married couple Mr and Mrs Twit and the monkeys who defeat them; adapted for stage (2015) and Netflix film (2025).
The Two Fires
The Two Fires is a poetry collection by the Australian poet Judith Wright, whose title poem, written in 1954, takes its name from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Two Towers
The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, published in 1954. It covers Books III and IV of the epic story.
The Twyborn Affair
The Twyborn Affair is a 1979 novel by the Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White, following one sexually ambiguous protagonist through three identities between the world wars.
The Tyger
The Tyger, Blake's 1794 poem from Songs of Experience (also "The Tiger"), is a six-quatrain lyric in trochaic tetrameter asking what creator "could frame thy fearful symmetry", companion to "The Lamb".
The Tyranny of Distance
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History is a bestselling 1966 book by Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey on how remoteness shaped the country's history.
The Ugly American
The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick set in fictional Sarkhan, critiquing US Cold War diplomacy; its title character Homer Atkins is virtuous, giving the phrase an ironic, reversed afterlife.
The Ugly Duckling
The Ugly Duckling (Den grimme Ælling) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1843 literary fairy tale of a rejected cygnet who discovers he is a swan; first published 11 November 1843, widely read as autobiographical, adapted by Disney in 1939.
The Ultimates (2024)
The Ultimates is a 24-issue Marvel Comics series launched in 2024, written by Deniz Camp, following a resistance of heroes fighting the Maker's Council on Earth-6160.
The Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy: Dark Horse superhero comic by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, debuting with Apocalypse Suite in 2007, Eisner-winning, adapted into Netflix's four-season series (2019) about seven adopted superpowered siblings.
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite is the first six-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries (2007–2008) by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, about seven adopted superpowered siblings; it won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series and inspired the Netflix series.
The Umbrella Academy: Dallas
The Umbrella Academy: Dallas is the second six-issue Dark Horse miniseries (2008-2009) by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, in which Number Five recruits his siblings to save JFK; it inspired Netflix season 2.
The Unaware Atelier Master
The Unaware Atelier Master (勘違いの工房主), also known as Kanchigai no Atelier Meister, is a Japanese fantasy light novel by Yōsuke Tokino about Kurt Rockhans, expelled from a hero party for lowest combat rank but SSS in all other skills, adapted into a 2025 EMT Squared anime with a second season announced.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is Milan Kundera's 1982 Czech novel, first published in French in 1984, set during the Prague Spring and told through Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, and Franz.
The Unconsoled
The Unconsoled is a 1995 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, his fourth, in which a celebrated concert pianist arrives in an unnamed European city where everything dissolves around him in dream logic.
The Underdogs
The Underdogs (Los de abajo) is a 1915 novel by the Mexican writer Mariano Azuela that follows peasant fighters in the Mexican Revolution, ending in disillusionment.
The Underland Chronicles
The Underland Chronicles is Suzanne Collins's five-book middle grade fantasy series (2003-2007), beginning with Gregor the Overlander, about an eleven-year-old New York boy who falls into an underground world of giant rats, bats, and purple-eyed humans.
The Undivine Comedy
The Undivine Comedy, also translated as The Infernal Comedy, is an 1835 drama by Polish Romantic poet Zygmunt Krasiński, written as a counterstatement to Dante's Divine Comedy.
The Undoing
The Undoing (2020) is a six-episode HBO psychological thriller limited series by David E. Kelley and Susanne Bier, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, loosely adapting Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel You Should Have Known.
The Unfinished Man
The Unfinished Man is a 1960 poetry collection by the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel, his fourth volume, containing ten formally regular poems including the best-known "Enterprise" and "Case Study".
The Unfortunate Traveller
The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton, is a prose narrative by Thomas Nashe, published in London in 1594 and often called a prototypical English novel.