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Souls Unfractured
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Soul Taken
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sounder
William Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1969

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Sourcery
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Sourdough
Robin Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Christine Leigh Heyrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Southern Horrors
Crystal N. Feimster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

Southern Lady Code
Helen Ellis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
Elizabeth R. Varon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Southern Seas (Pepe Carvalho, #4)
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Southland
Nina Revoyr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

South of Broad
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

South Sea Tales (Modern Library Classics)
Jack London

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Sovereign
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

So Yesterday
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Sozaboy
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Space Case
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Space Demons (Space Demons Trilogy, #1)
Gillian Rubinstein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Spaced Out (Moon Base Alpha, #2)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Spaceman of Bohemia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Space Station Seventh Grade (Space Station Seventh Grade, #1)
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Spanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Spare
Prince Harry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Spare Parts
Buzz Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Spare Parts (Young Readers' Edition): The True Story of Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and an Impossible Dream
Joshua Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Spark
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Marie Kondō

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Sparkling Cyanide
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Sparks Like Stars: A Novel
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
John J. Ratey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Sparrow
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Spartacus
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Speak
Louisa Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Speaking from Among the Bones
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

Speak No Evil
Uzodinma Iweala

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Speak Now
Kenji Yoshino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Spear
Nicola Griffith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Specials
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

Specters of Marx
Jacques Derrida

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Speedboat
Renata Adler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Speed of Life
Carol Weston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Speed-the-Plow
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Spell Bound
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Spellbreaker
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Spellcaster
Jaymin Eve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Spellmaker
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Spell of the Highlander
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Spells
Aprilynne Pike

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Spells for Forgetting
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
Sebastien de Castell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Sphere
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Sphinx
Anne Garréta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Spider Bones
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Spider's Bite
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Paula Gunn Allen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

Spies
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Spies of Mississippi
Rick Bowers

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Spilled Blood
Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Spilled Milk: Based on a True Story
K.L Randis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spin
Robert Charles Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Spindle's End
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Spinning
Tillie Walden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Spinoza
Steven Nadler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff
Neil Rackham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, #1)
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Spiral
Bal Khabra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Spirit Bound
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Spirit Crossing
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Spirited Away
Cindy Miles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Spirit Hunters
Ellen Oh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Donald S. Whitney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Spiritual Leadership
J. Oswald Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Splendor
Anna Godbersen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Splinter & Ash
Marieke Nijkamp

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Splintered
A.G. Howard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Splintered (Splintered, #1)
A.G. Howard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Split
Swati Avasthi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Split Second
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #1)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2018