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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
Olivia Dade

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoils
Brian Van Reet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Spook Country
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Spoonbenders
Daryl Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Spotted Horses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1931

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy
Frank Wedekind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Spring Fever
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Spring House
Mary Ellen Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Spring Moon
Bette Bao Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Spring Torrents
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Sprint
Jake Knapp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Spud: Learning to Fly
John van de Ruit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Spy Camp
Stuart Gibss

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Spying in High Heels (High Heels, #1)
Gemma Halliday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Spy School
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Spy School at Sea (Spy School, #9)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Spy School Revolution (Spy School, #8)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Spy School Secret Service (Spy School, #5)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Squire
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Squirm
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Squished
Megan Wagner Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sredni Vashtar
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

S. S. Proleterka
Fleur Jaeggy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Stag's Leap: Poems
Sharon Olds

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream
Mychal Denzel Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Stalin: Breaker of Nations
Robert Conquest

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Stalin's Children
Owen Matthews

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Stalking Darkness (Nightrunner, #2)
Lynn Flewelling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Stalky & Co

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1897

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Standard Deviation

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Stand By Me
Sheila O'Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Standing Female Nude
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Standing in Another Man's Grave (Inspector Rebus, #18)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Standing in the Rainbow (Elmwood Springs, #2)
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Stand Tall
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Stand Up That Mountain
Jay Erskine Leutze

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Jessica Kim

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
Kelly Brown Douglas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (The Millicent Min Trilogy #2)
Lisa Yee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Ibi Zoboi

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2022

Starclimber
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Starcrossed
Josephine Angelini

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Star-Crossed
Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Stardust
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Starfarers (Starfarers #1)
Vonda N. McIntyre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Starfish
Lisa Fipps

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Star Food
Ethan Canin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Star Force: Origin Series 1-4
Aer-ki Jyr

Fiction | Novel | YA

Stargazer
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Stargazing
Jen Wang

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Staring at the Sun
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Irvin D. Yalom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Star in the Storm
Joan Hiatt Harlow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Star Island
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Starless Night
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Starlight
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Starling House
Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Star of Light
Patricia St. John

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1953

Star of the Sea
Joseph O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Starplex
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Starry Eyes
Jenn Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Starry River of the Sky
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Star Shipped
Cat Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Starside
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Stars in an Italian Sky
Jill Santopolo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Stars of Fortune
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Start a War
Elle Thorpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Started Early, Took my Dog
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Starter for Ten
David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Starters
Lissa Price

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Starter Villain
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Startide Rising
David Brin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Starting Out in the Evening
Brian Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Star Trek: First Contact (Star Trek: The Next Generation Movie Novelization #2)
J.M. Dillard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Dan Senor, Saul Singer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Start With Why
Simon Sinek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Star Wars Novelizations, #2)
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Star Wars: Cloak of Deception
James Luceno

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Matthew Woodring Stover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Star Wars Novelizations, #7)
Alan Dean Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Star Wars Novelizations, #1)
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999