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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

Sweet Venom
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 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 2004

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

Swim Team
Johnnie Christmas

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Swim That Rock
John Rocco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Swim the Fly
Don Calame

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Swindle
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Swing
Mary Rand Hess, Kwame Alexander

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

Swing Time
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Swiss Sonata
Gwethalyn Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Switch
Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Switchboard Soldiers
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Switched (Trylle, #1)
Amanda Hocking

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Sword-Born (Tiger and Del, #5)
Jennifer Roberson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sword Catcher
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sword Citadel
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Swordheart
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Sword Song
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sworn to Silence
Linda Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sworn Virgin
Elvira Dones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sybil
Flora Rheta Schreiber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Sycamore Gap
L.J. Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sycamore Row
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Sylvia And Aki
Winifred Conkling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Sylvia's Lovers
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1863

Sympathy
Olivia Sudjic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Symphony for the City of the Dead
M. T. Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

Symphony of Secrets
Brendan Slocumb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Symposium
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 380

Symposium by Plato
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 385

Symptoms of Being Human
Jeff Garvin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Syren
Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

System Collapse
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade, Transl. Willard R. Trask

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

The Sacred Balance
David Suzuki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Peter L. Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Paula Gunn Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Stephanie Oakes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Sacred Place
Daniel Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Sacred Wood
T.S. Eliot

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

The Sacrifice (The Enemy #4)
Charlie Higson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
Angela Carter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Safety of Objects
A.M. Homes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1990

The Saga of the Jómsvíkings
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1200

The Saga of the Volsungs
Anonymous, William Morris

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1000

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (The Elric Saga, #2)
Michael Moorcock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1963

The Saint-Fiacre Affair (Maigret, #14)
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Saints of Swallow Hill
Donna Everhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide
K. David Goss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023