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Sir Knight of the Splendid Way (Rare Collector's Series)
W.E. Cule

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1899

Sir Princess Petra's Mission (The Pen Pieyu Adventures, #3)
Diane Mae Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 15

Sir Princess Petra (The Pen Pieyu Adventures, #1)
Diane Mae Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sir Thursday
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

S is for Silence
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sisi: Empress on Her Own (Sisi, #2)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

SISTER
Rosamund Lupton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Sister Citizen
Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sister Heart
Sally Morgan

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2015

Sisterhood Everlasting
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sisterhood of Dune (Schools of Dune, #1)
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Sister of My Heart
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Sisters
Daisy Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Linda R. Hirshman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Sisters in the Wilderness
Charlotte Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
Delores S. Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Sisters of Fortune
Anna Lee Huber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Sisters of the Lost Nation
Nick Medina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sisters One, Two, Three
Nancy Star

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sisters Red
Jackson Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello, Transl. Edward Storer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1921

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Luigi Pirandello

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1921

Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Six Days of the Condor
James Grady

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard P. Feynman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Six Four
Hideo Yokoyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Six-Gun Snow White
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Six Records of a Floating Life
Shen Fu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1809

Six Suspects
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sixteenth Summer (Sixteenth Summer, #1)
Michelle Dalton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Barthe DeClements

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Sixth Grave on the Edge
Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Six Wakes
Mur Lafferty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Six Years
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881
James B. Gillett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1921

Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1)
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sizwe Bansi Is Dead & The Island

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Sizzling Sixteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
A. F. Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Skeleton Creek
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Skeleton Crew
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

Skeleton Crew: The Raft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

Skeleton Key
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Skeleton Man
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Skeletons at the Feast
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Skellig
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Skels
Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skim
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Skin Deep
Charles Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Skin Game
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Skink—No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Skinny
Donna Cooner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Skinny Legs and All
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Skin of the Sea
Natasha Bowen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Skin Tight
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Skin Trade
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Skinwalker
Faith Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Skip Beat!, Vol. 1
Yoshiki Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Skipping Christmas
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)
Amy Timberlake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Skunk Hour
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Sky
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sky Daddy
Kate Folk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Sky Island
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1912

Sky Raiders (Five Kingdoms, #1)
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Sky's End
Marc J Gregson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Skysworn
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Skyward
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Slacker
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Slade House
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Slake's Limbo: 121 Days
Felice Holman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Slam
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Slam!
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Slammed
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slammerkin
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001