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Superman Smashes the Klan

Gene Luen Yang, Illustr. Gurihiru

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2020

Supernatural Horror in Literature

H.P. Lovecraft

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Supernaturally

Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches About the Unseen World - and Why It Matters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Supernova

Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Mike Isaac

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Superstar

Mandy Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1969

Suppliant Women

Euripides

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 424

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Feynman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

Sure Thing

David Ives

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Surface Detail (Culture, #9)

Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Surprised by Joy

C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

Surprised by Oxford

Carolyn Weber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Surprise Island (The Boxcar Children, #2)

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1949

Surprise Me

Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Surrender

Bono

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Surrender Your Love

J.C. Reed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Surrounded By Idiots

Thomas Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Survival In Auschwitz

Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1947

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

Mitchell S. Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Survive the Night: A Novel

Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Surviving Hitler

Andrea Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Surviving Savannah

Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Surviving the Applewhites

Stephanie S. Tolan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Surviving the City (Surviving the City, #1)

Tasha Spillett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance

Kenneth Kamler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Survivor in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Survivor Song

Paul Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Lisa Napoli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Sushi for Beginners

Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Suspect

Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sustained

Emma Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris

Anne Nelson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Swallow

Sefi Atta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Swallowing Darkness

Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Swallowing Stones

Joyce Mcdonald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Swami and Friends

R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1935

Swamplandia

Karen Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Swamp Thing #40

Alan Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume One

Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Swan Song

Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Swapping Lives

Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sway

Jennifer Gibson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Swear on This Life

Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Swear to Howdy

Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Hugh Wheeler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Sweeping Up Glass

Carolyn Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sweep in Peace

Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sweep of the Blade

Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Sweet Addiction

J. Daniels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sweet Addiction (Sweet Addiction, #1)

J. Daniels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sweet Bean Paste

Durian Sukegawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Sweetbitter

Stephanie Danler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay

William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sweet Days of Discipline

Fleur Jaeggy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Sweet Dreams

Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sweet Evil

Wendy Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Sweet Filthy Boy (Wild Seasons, #1)

Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sweetheart

Chelsea Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sweet Home

Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Sweetland

Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sweet Little Lies

Caz Frear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sweetness and Power

Sidney W. Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Sweetness in the Belly

Camilla Gibb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sweet Peril

Wendy Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Sweet Persuasion

Maya Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sweet Reckoning

Wendy Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Sweet Revenge

Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Sweet Salt Air

Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sweet Sorrow

David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sweet Surrender

Maya Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sweet Tea and Sympathy (Southern Eclectic, #1)

Molly Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sweet Temptation

Cora Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sweet Thursday

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Sweet Tooth

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sweetwater Creek

Anne Rivers Siddons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Swift and Saddled

Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Swift Rivers

Cornelia Meigs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1932

Swimming Back to Trout River

Linda Rui Feng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

Fiction | Memoir in Verse | Adult | Published in 2020

Swimming Lessons

Claire Fuller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag

Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1987

Swimming Studies

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Swimming to Antarctica

Lynne Cox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Swimsuit

Maxine Paetro, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009