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Slan (Slan, #1)
A.E. van Vogt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Slanting Towards the Sea
Lidija Hilje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Slap Shot
Chelsea Curto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Slash
Slash, Anthony Bozza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Slated
Teri Terry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slaughterhouse
Carla H. Krueger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2009

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Philip D. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Slave Old Man
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Slave Play
Jeremy O. Harris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2020

Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Slavery at Sea
Sowande M. Mustakeem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Slave to Sensation
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Slay
Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sleep Donation
Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

Sleepers
Cate Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
David Lubar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sleep It Off, Lady
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sleepovers
Jacqueline Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Sleep Tight
Rachel Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Slider
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Slightly Dangerous
Mary Balogh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Slightly Married
Mary Balogh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Slipping
John Toomey

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1998

Slob
Ellen Potter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Sloppy Firsts
Megan McCafferty

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Slot Machine
Chris Lynch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Slow Gods
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Slow Horses
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Slowness
Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

Slow River
Nicola Griffith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Rob Nixon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Slumming
Chad Heap

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Smack
Melvin Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1996

Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
Jo Watson Hackl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Small as an Elephant
Jennifer Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Small Boat
Vincent Delecroix, Transl. Helen Stevenson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

Smaller and Smaller Circles
F.H. Batacan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Small Favor
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Small Fires: Essays
Julie Marie Wade

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Small Gods
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Small Is Beautiful
Ernst F. Schumacher

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

Small Island
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Small Sacrifices
Ann Rule

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Small Spaces
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Small Steps
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Peg Kehret

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

Small Town Girls
Jayne Anne Phillips

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Small Town Rumors
Carolyn Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Small World
David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Smart Women Finish Rich
David Bach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Koren Zailckas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Smiles to Go
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg, Tiina Nunnally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Smith
Leon Garfield

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham
J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

Smoke and Shadows (Smoke Trilogy #1)
Tanya Huff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Smoke Bitten
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Smokin' Seventeen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Smoky the Cow Horse
Will James

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1926

Smooth Talking Stranger
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Snake-Eater
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Snakehead
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Snakehead (Alex Rider #7)
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Snap
Belinda Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Snapdragon
Kat Leyh

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Snoop
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

Snow
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Snow Bird
Lass Small

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Snowblind
Ragnar Jónasson, Quentin Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #2)
Ragnar Jónasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Snowbound
Janice Kay Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992