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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion's 2005 National Book Award-winning memoir of grief after the sudden death of her husband John Gregory Dunne on December 30, 2003, and her daughter Quintana's illness; adapted into a 2007 Broadway one-woman play.
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis) is a 1984 novel by José Saramago about Fernando Pessoa's heteronym Ricardo Reis.
The Year of the Locust
The Year of the Locust is Terry Hayes's 2023-24 spy thriller and standalone follow-up to I Am Pilgrim. It follows CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley 'Kane' Walker hunting presumed-dead terrorist Abu Muslim al-Tundra before shifting into science fiction with time travel and alien spores.
The Year's Best Science Fiction
The Year's Best Science Fiction: annual short SF anthology series, chiefly Gardner Dozois's 35 volumes (1984-2018, Bluejay then St. Martin's), with yearly summation, honorable mentions, and successor series by Strahan, Horton, and Clarke.
The Yearling
The Yearling is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's 1938 Scribner's novel about Jody Baxter and his fawn Flag in the Florida scrub; bestseller of 1938 and 1939 Pulitzer Prize winner, adapted as the 1946 MGM film with Gregory Peck.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is Robert A. Caro's multi-volume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, with four volumes published since 1982 and a fifth in progress.
The Yellow Prince
The Yellow Prince (Zhovtyi kniaz) is a novel by Vasyl Barka depicting the 1932–1933 Holodomor famine through one peasant family's starvation, published in New York in 1963.
The Yellow Storm
The Yellow Storm is the 1951 English abridged translation of Lao She's novel Sishi tongtang (Four Generations Under One Roof), dictated to Ida Pruitt and set in occupied Beijing.
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper ("The Yellow Wall-Paper") is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, first printed in The New England Magazine, protesting the S. Weir Mitchell rest cure through a diary of a woman's descent into madness.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union is Michael Chabon's 2007 Hugo- and Sidewise-winning alternate-history detective novel set in Sitka, Alaska, a temporary Jewish homeland where detective Meyer Landsman investigates a chess prodigy's murder.
The Young Guard
The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия) is a 1946 novel by Alexander Fadeyev about the anti-German Komsomol underground in Krasnodon, Ukraine, in 1942–1943, one of the most widely read works of Soviet literature.
The Zafarani Files
The Zafarani Files (وقائع حارة الزعفراني) is a 1976 novel by Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, set in old Cairo and told through files compiled by a mysterious observer.
The Zelmenyaners
The Zelmenyaners (Yiddish: Zelmenyaner) is a satirical Yiddish novel by Moyshe Kulbak, following four generations of a Jewish family in a Minsk courtyard, published 1929–1935.
Thebaid
The Thebaid (Thēbaïs) is a Latin epic in twelve books by the Roman poet Statius, first published in 91 or 92 CE, retelling the war of the Seven against Thebes.
Theban Cycle
The Theban Cycle is a modern grouping of four lost ancient Greek epic poems on Theban myths: the Oedipodea, Thebaid, Epigoni, and Alcmeonis, named in the 1800s.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston about Janie Crawford, an African American woman who finds her voice through three marriages.
Thematic poetry anthology
A thematic poetry anthology is a collection of poems grouped by a shared subject or genre, such as war, love, or nature, rather than by author, period, or school.
Thembavani
Thembavani (தேம்பாவணி), meaning "a garland of unfading honey-sweet verses," is a Tamil Christian epic on Saint Joseph, composed in 1726 by the Italian Jesuit Veeramamunivar.
Theme (narrative)
Theme (narrative): the abstract idea or meaning a story conveys about its subject, distinct from motif, topic, and plot. Covers thematology, thematic criticism, theme versus motif debates, and empirical reader studies of theme construction.
Then She Was Gone
Then She Was Gone is a psychological thriller novel by British author Lisa Jewell about the aftermath of a teenage girl's disappearance, following her mother Laurel Mack ten years later.
Theo of Golden
Theo of Golden, debut 2023 novel by Allen Levi, self-published then reissued by Atria in 2025; elderly Portuguese stranger Theo buys 92 coffeehouse portraits of Golden, Georgia residents and gifts each to its subject for their story; #1 NYT bestseller, over one million US copies, Tom Hanks film in talks.
Théoden
Théoden (Théoden Ednew, Rohirric Tûrac) is the seventeenth King of Rohan in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: healed by Gandalf from Saruman's influence, victorious at the Hornburg, fallen at the Pelennor Fields, succeeded by Éomer.
Theon Greyjoy
Theon Greyjoy is a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Alfie Allen; heir to Balon Greyjoy, Eddard Stark's ward, tortured into "Reek" by Ramsay Bolton.
There Are Rivers in the Sky
There Are Rivers in the Sky is Elif Shafak's 2024 novel (Knopf/Viking, 464 pages) linking Ashurbanipal's Nineveh, Victorian London, and the present via a single raindrop, the Tigris, the Thames, and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
There Is a Country in the World
There Is a Country in the World (Hay un país en el mundo) is a long poem by Dominican poet Pedro Mir, first published in Havana in 1949.
There once was a man from Nantucket
"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the famous opening line of English bawdy limericks, chosen because Nantucket rhymes with a vulgar word; early print dates conflict (1879 The Pearl, 1902), with a documented 1924 four-verse newspaper contest and a well-known clean bucket version.
There There (novel)
There There is Tommy Orange's 2018 debut novel (Knopf) about twelve Native characters converging at the Big Oakland Powwow in Oakland, California; title from Gertrude Stein; 2019 Pulitzer finalist, PEN/Hemingway and John Leonard Prize winner.
There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her
There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her (勇者パーティーにかわいい子がいたので、告白してみた。) is a Suisei isekai romance web novel, later a Monster Bunko light novel, Kairi manga, and 2026 Gekkou anime about demon Yōki confessing to priestess Cecilia.
There Will Come Soft Rains (poem)
Sara Teasdale's 1918 lyric poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" (War Time), first in Harper's Monthly, collected in Flame and Shadow (1920): nature's indifference to human war, later tied to nuclear apocalypse by Bradbury's 1950 story.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a 1927 French novel by François Mauriac in which a provincial woman tries to poison her husband and is freed through his false testimony.