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Thunderstruck (book)

Thunderstruck (2006) is Erik Larson's narrative nonfiction book, published by Crown, interweaving Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless telegraphy with Dr. Hawley Crippen's 1910 murder case and transatlantic chase in Edwardian London.

Thương vợ

Thương vợ ("Pitying My Wife") is a Vietnamese Nôm poem by Trần Tế Xương, known as Tú Xương, honoring his wife Phạm Thị Mẫn, who raised five children and supported the household.

Thursday Murder Club (series)

Thursday Murder Club series: Richard Osman's crime novels about four retirees at Coopers Chase solving cold cases; five novels since 2020, over ten million copies sold, adapted as a 2025 Netflix film.

Tiamat's Wrath

Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse #8) is James S.A. Corey's 2019 space opera from Orbit Books, published March 26, 2019. The penultimate Expanse novel follows the Laconian Empire's rule, Holden's captivity, and the alien threat before Leviathan Falls.

Tianyou Ge Ji

Tianyou Ge Ji (天游阁集) is the collected poetry and prose of the Qing dynasty Manchu poet Gu Taiqing (1799–1877), named for her residence, the Tianyou Pavilion.

Tides

Tides is a 1993 epistolary novel by the Nigerian writer Isidore Okpewho, telling through exchanged letters of Niger Delta communities resisting oil exploitation with state complicity.

Tides from the West

Tides from the West (西潮) is Chiang Monlin's English autobiography, written in Kunming during WWII air raids and published by Yale University Press in 1947, covering China from the 1842 Treaty of Nanking to Pearl Harbor in 1941; Chiang translated it into Chinese himself for a 1950s Taiwan edition.

Tie-in

A tie-in, also called a product tie-in, is a work of media that draws on a better-known work, such as licensed Star Wars novels or film novelizations.

Tiếng hát con tàu

"Tiếng hát con tàu" ("The Song of the Train") is a Vietnamese poem by Chế Lan Viên marking his turn toward the people as the source of art.

Tiếng thu

"Tiếng thu" ("The Sound of Autumn") is a 1939 poem by the Vietnamese poet Lưu Trọng Lư, an emblematic work of the Thơ mới movement.

Tiepolo's Hound

Tiepolo's Hound is a book-length narrative poem by Saint Lucian poet and painter Derek Walcott, published in 2000 and illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings.

Tierras solares

Tierras solares is a 1904 book of travel chronicles by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, collecting pieces from La Nación about his journey through southern Spain and Europe.

Tieta do Agreste

Tieta do Agreste is a 1977 novel by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado about a woman expelled from home who returns decades later rich and powerful.

Tiểu thuyết chương hồi

Tiểu thuyết chương hồi (章回小說) is a form of long narrative fiction divided into numbered, self-contained chapters (hồi), originating in China and later adopted by Vietnamese writers.

Tiffany Aching

Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy series, whose coming of age across five novels, beginning with The Wee Free Men, forms one of the series' main character arcs.

Tiger Lily (Peter Pan)

Tiger Lily is the fictional Native American princess of Neverland from J.M. Barrie's 1904 Peter Pan play and 1911 Peter and Wendy novel, daughter of Great Big Little Panther; a long-criticized stereotype, reimagined in Disney's 2023 Peter Pan & Wendy and the 2024 musical tour.

Tigger

Tigger, the bouncy tiger of A.A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner (1928), named for Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy; Disney debut 1968, voiced by Paul Winchell, US public domain January 1, 2024.

Tijaniyya devotional poetry

Tijaniyya devotional poetry is religious verse by the Tijaniyya Sufi order in Arabic and African languages, including qasidas by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, chanted at gatherings.

Tijuana bible

A Tijuana bible, also known as an eight-pager or bluesie, was a small, clandestinely published pornographic comic booklet made in the United States from the 1920s to the mid-1960s.

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Tikki Tikki Tembo is a 1968 picture book by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent, about a boy whose long name delays his rescue from a well; presented as a Chinese folktale, it is likely adapted from the Japanese tale Jugemu.

Tilakamanjari

Tilakamanjari (तिलकमञ्जरी) is an ornate Sanskrit prose romance, or katha, by the court poet Dhanapala, telling the parallel love stories of Harivahana and Tilakamanjari, and Samaraketu and Malayasundari.

Tilism-e-Hoshruba

Tilism-e-Hoshruba (طلسمِ ہوشربا) is a monumental Urdu fantasy epic, part of the Dastan-e Amir Hamza cycle, published in Lucknow between 1883 and 1893 and the best known work of Urdu fantasy.

Tilottama Sambhava

Tilottama Sambhava Kavya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "The Birth of Tilottama") is an epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, published in 1860 and treated as the first Bengali poem in blank verse.

Time of Contempt

Time of Contempt (Czas pogardy) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 1995 fantasy novel, second of the five Witcher saga novels, fourth book overall. It covers the Thanedd mage coup, Nilfgaard's invasion, and Ciri's separation from Geralt; English translation by David French appeared in 2013.

Time of Parting

Time of Parting (Време разделно) is a 1964 historical novel by Bulgarian writer Anton Donchev depicting the forced Islamization of Orthodox Bulgarians in the Rhodope Mountains in 1668.

Time of Silence

Time of Silence (Tiempo de silencio) is a 1962 Spanish novel by the psychiatrist Luis Martín-Santos, regarded as the pioneering work of the Spanish experimental novel of the late 1960s.

Time travel in fiction

Time travel in fiction: the science fiction subgenre and narrative device begun with H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), built on grandfather and bootstrap paradoxes, fixed timelines, and multiverse mechanisms.

Time Variance Authority

Time Variance Authority (TVA), Marvel Comics fictional bureaucracy monitoring multiverse timelines from the Null-Time Zone; created by Walt Simonson and Sal Buscema in Thor #372 (1986), later central to the MCU's Loki and its own 2024 comic series.

Time's 10 Best Graphic Novels

Time's 10 Best Graphic Novels is an unranked ten-title list of the best graphic novels of all time, compiled by Time book critic Lev Grossman around 2005 because of Watchmen.

Timeline of Marvel Comics

Timeline of Marvel Comics: the publisher's history from Timely's Marvel Comics #1 (October 1939) through Atlas to the Marvel Age from Fantastic Four #1 (1961), plus the sliding timescale governing Earth-616's in-universe chronology.