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The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Shock of the New
Robert Hughes

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Shoemaker's Holiday
Thomas Dekker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

The Shoemaker's Wife
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Shooting Party
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

The Shooting Star (Tintin #10)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Shop on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, #1)
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Shore
Sara Taylor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Jeff Hobbs

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Short Drop
Matthew FitzSimmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Short Reign of Pippin IV
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2010

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1989

The Short Victorious War
David Weber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Shout: Selected Poems
Simon Armitage

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1937

The Shunning (The Heritage of Lancaster County, #1)
Beverly Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Sicilian (The Godfather #2)
Mario Puzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Sickness
Alberto Barrera Tyszka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1849

The Sidekicks
Will Kostakis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel
Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Siege of Macindaw
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Sight
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Signifying Monkey
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

The Silence
Don DeLillo, Tim Lebbon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Silence of Murder
Dandi Daley Mackall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Silence Of The Lambs
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Silence that Binds Us
Joanna Ho

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

The Silent Blade
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Silent Boy
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Silent Corner
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Silent Cry
Kenzaburō Ōe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Silent Girl
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Silent Governess
Julie Klassen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Silent Land
Graham Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, #1)
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Silent Waters
Brittainy C. Cherry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Silent Wife
A. S. A. Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

The Silk House
Kayte Nunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Silmarillion
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Silverado Squatters
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1883

The Silver Arrow (The Silver Arrow, #1)
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Silver Chair
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1953

The Silver Donkey
Sonya Hartnett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Silver Eyes (Five Nights at Freddy's, #1)
Scott Cawthon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Silver Kiss
Annette Curtis Klause

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Silver Pencil (Newbery Library, Puffin)
Alice Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1944

The Silver Pigs
Lindsey Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Silver Swan
Amo Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Silver Sword
Ian Serraillier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

The Simple Art Of Murder
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1950

The Simple Gift
Steven Herrick

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2000

The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
J. L. Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Simple Truth
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Simplicity of Cider
Amy E. Reichert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sin Eater's Daughter (The Sin Eater’s Daughter, #1)
Melinda Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Singer's Gun
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Singing Tree
Kate Seredy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1940

The Singing Trees
Boo Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sinister Pig (Leaphorn & Chee, #16)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2)
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sire de Malétroit's Door (Dramatic Adaptation)
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

The Siren
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Sister
Louise Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sisterhood
Helen Bryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sisters
Nancy Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sisters Brothers
Patrick Dewitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sisters (Cormac Reilly, #.5)

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
Roxane van Iperen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sisters Rosensweig
Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Sittaford Mystery
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Six Sacred Stones
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
Lars Mytting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Six (The Six, #1)
Mark Alpert

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014)
Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Sixth Man (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #5)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Alison Weir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

The Skeleton Tree
Iain Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Sketch Book
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1819

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Washington Irving

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2022