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Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola's 1867 novel of adultery and murder in Paris, founding work of French Naturalism; its 1868 preface states the temperament doctrine; adapted to stage (1873), film, and opera.
These Errors Are Correct
These Errors Are Correct is a 2008 poetry collection by the Indian writer Jeet Thayil, written in memory of his late wife, the editor Shakti Bhatt.
These Violent Delights
These Violent Delights is Chloe Gong's 2020 debut YA novel, a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1926 Shanghai, where gang heirs Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov unite against a monstrous contagion; its sequel is Our Violent Ends.
Thesis statement
Thesis statement: the one- or two-sentence claim, usually at the end of an essay's introduction, naming a topic and the writer's arguable position; guides scope, organization, and evidence, and is not a fact or announcement.
They Both Die at the End
They Both Die at the End is Adam Silvera's 2017 YA novel set in a New York where Death-Cast calls people on their death day. Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet via the Last Friend app; first queer Latinx YA No. 1 NYT bestseller.
Thieves' World
Thieves' World is a shared-world fantasy anthology series created by Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey. It was launched in 1979 and set in the lawless port of Sanctuary.
Thing (The Addams Family)
Thing (Thing T. Thing) is the disembodied hand of The Addams Family, created by Charles Addams in 1938 New Yorker cartoons; a hand-in-a-box played by Ted Cassidy in 1964, a severed hand in the 1990s films, and Victor Dorobantu's character in Netflix's Wednesday.
Thing Explainer
Thing Explainer is Randall Munroe's 2015 book explaining machines and phenomena such as microwaves, the Saturn V, and cells using only the 1,000 ("ten hundred") most common English words and xkcd-style line drawings, derived from his Up Goer Five comic.
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel about Okonkwo and Igbo society in Umuofia, southeastern Nigeria, told in English woven with Igbo proverbs and orality as a counter-narrative to colonial depictions of Africa.
Thinner (novel)
Thinner (1984) is a horror novel Stephen King published as Richard Bachman via New American Library, in which cursed lawyer Billy Halleck wastes away after killing an old woman; its exposure led to King's unmasking and a 1996 film.
Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why (13 Reasons Why) is a 2007 Jay Asher young adult novel about Hannah Baker's suicide told through 13 cassette tapes, adapted into the controversial 2017 Netflix series produced by Selena Gomez; studied for suicide-contagion effects and frequently challenged in schools.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a thirteen-section free-verse poem by the American poet Wallace Stevens, first published in 1917 and collected in Harmonium in 1923.
Thiruppugazh
Tiruppugal (Tamil: திருப்புகழ், also spelled Thiruppugazh, meaning "Holy Praise") is a collection of medieval Tamil devotional songs composed by the saint Arunagirinathar in praise of Lord Murugan.
This Be the Verse
"This Be the Verse" is a twelve-line poem by Philip Larkin, first published in 1971 and collected in High Windows (1974), opening "They fuck you up, your mum and dad."
This Blinding Absence of Light
This Blinding Absence of Light (Cette aveuglante absence de lumière) is a 2001 novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun about eighteen years in Morocco's secret Tazmamart prison.
This Boy's Life: A Memoir
This Boy's Life: A Memoir is Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir (Atlantic Monthly Press) of his 1950s boyhood with his mother Rosemary and abusive stepfather Dwight in Chinook, Washington, ending with his escape to the Hill School; adapted into a 1993 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
This Is Just to Say
This Is Just to Say is a 1934 poem by William Carlos Williams, a brief apology note confessing to eating plums someone was saving for breakfast.
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
This Is Where the Serpent Lives (2026), Daniyal Mueenuddin's debut novel from Knopf, is four interlinked novellas following a Pakistani landowning family and their servants, including the orphan Yazid and the aspiring servant Saqib, from the 1950s to the present.
This Life of Mine
This Life of Mine (我这一辈子) is a 1937 novella by the Chinese writer Lao She, first published in the magazine Literature, recounting fifty years in an ordinary Beijing policeman's life.
This Monster Wants to Eat Me
This Monster Wants to Eat Me (Watashi o Tabetai, Hitodenashi) is a dark yuri horror manga by Sai Naekawa, serialized in Dengeki Maoh since 2020, about mermaid Shiori protecting suicidal Hinako until she can eat her; adapted into a 2025 Studio Lings anime.
This Mournable Body
This Mournable Body is a 2018 novel by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga, the final book of her trilogy about Tambudzai Sigauke, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, a semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman following Princeton student Amory Blaine through romance, war, and disillusionment at the dawn of the Jazz Age.
This too shall pass
This too shall pass (Persian: این نیز بگذرد, īn nīz bogzarad) is a Persian adage on impermanence from a Sufi ring fable told by Sanai and Attar; Jewish folklore sets it on Solomon's ring (gam zeh ya'avor), and Lincoln's 1859 speech popularized it in English.
Thơ thơ
Thơ thơ is the first poetry collection of the Vietnamese poet Xuân Diệu, published in 1938 with 46 poems and regarded as a central work of the Thơ mới movement.
Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah is a 1986 poetry collection by Rita Dove, loosely based on her maternal grandparents, that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the semi-fictional region of south-west England, centered on Dorset, that Hardy created from Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) onward, reviving the medieval West Saxon name; it includes Casterbridge (Dorchester), Egdon Heath, and the 1895 Wessex map.
Thorin Oakenshield
Thorin Oakenshield (Thorin II) is the dwarf leader of Tolkien's The Hobbit, son of Thráin II, King under the Mountain, who leads the Quest of Erebor against Smaug and dies at the Battle of Five Armies.
Those Winter Sundays
"Those Winter Sundays" is a fourteen-line poem by Robert Hayden, first published in 1962 in A Ballad of Remembrance, recalling a father who rose early to light fires.
Thottiyude Makan
Thottiyude Makan (തോട്ടിയുടെ മകൻ; The Scavenger's Son) is a 1947 Malayalam novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai about three generations of manual scavengers in Alappuzha, Kerala.
Though I Am an Inept Villainess
Though I Am an Inept Villainess (Futsutsuka na Akujo de wa Gozaimasu ga) is a Japanese light novel series by Satsuki Nakamura, illustrated by Kana Yuki, about Kou Reirin and Shu Keigetsu swapping bodies in the Maiden Court; adapted into manga and a 2026 Doga Kobo anime.