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Such Big Dreams
Reema Patel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Such Kindness
Andre Dubus III

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sucker Punch (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #27)
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sudden Death
Álvaro Enrigue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Etgar Keret

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Suddenly, Last Summer
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Suddenly You
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Sudden Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Sufferance
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Suffer the Children
John Saul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)
Donna Leon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sufficiently Advanced Magic
Andrew Rowe

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Suffrage Songs and Verses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

Sugar
Seressia Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Elizabeth Abbott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Sugar Changed the World
Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Sugar Daddies
Jade West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sugar Daddy
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1)
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
Bernice L. McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1897

Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places #1)
Jeremy Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Suicide Notes
Michael Thomas Ford

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
Jonah Goldberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sula
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Sullivan's Island
Dorothea Benton Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Sultana's Dream

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God
Thomas Aquinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1259

Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
Thomas Aquinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1264

Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1274

Summer
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1917

Summer and Smoke
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

Summer Ball
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Summer Crossing
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
Sue Halpern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Summer House with Swimming Pool
Herman Koch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Summer Island: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
Jim Butcher, Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Summerland
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Summerlost
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Summer Morning, Summer Night

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

Summer of '42

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Summer of '69
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Summer of Fear
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Summer of Riley
Eva Bunting

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Sara Pennypacker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Summer of the Mariposas
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Summer of the Sea Serpent (Merlin Missions, #3)
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Summer Rental
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Summers at the Saint
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Summer Sisters
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Summerwater
Sarah Moss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Summit Lake
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sunday Jews
Hortense Calisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Sundays at Tiffany's
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sundial
Catriona Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Anonymous - Sundiata

Fiction | Novel | Published in 12

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Sunjata)
Djibril Tamsir Niane (D.T. Niane), Transl. G. D. Pickett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1200

Sundiver
David Brin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Sunflower
Gyula Krúdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

Sunflower Sisters
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sunglasses After Dark (Sonja Blue, #1)
Nancy A. Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Sunkissed
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Sunlight on a Broken Column

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Sunny
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Sunny Holiday (Sunny Holiday, #1)
Coleen Murtagh Paratore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sunny Side Up
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Sunset
Dave Stevenson, Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Sunset Beach
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux, #10)
James Lee Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House, #7)
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Sunshine
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sunshine: A Graphic Novel
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1912

Sun Storm
Åsa Larsson, Marlaine Delargy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sun Tzu'S Art Of War
Tao Hanzhang

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 401

Sunwing (Silverwing, #2)
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient - Powered by the Science of Games
Jane McGonigal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
Sydney Finkelstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E. Tanzi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Superfudge
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Supergifted
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Super Host
Kate Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance
Michael Hudson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Superman: Red Son
Mark Millar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003