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The Skin Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #11)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Skin I'm In
Sharon G. Flake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

The Skin Map (Bright Empires, #1)
Stephen R. Lawhead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1942

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Desmond Cole

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Skull Beneath the Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan, #1)
Eliot Pattison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Skull Throne
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sky at Our Feet
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Sky Fisherman
Craig Lesley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Sky is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Sky is Falling
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Sky Is Falling (The Guests of War Trilogy, #1)
Kit Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Skylark's Secret
Fiona Valpy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Skylight Room

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1906

The Sky So Heavy (The Sky So Heavy, #1)
Claire Zorn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness
Rick Bass

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
John W. Blassingame

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Slave Dancer
Paula Fox

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Sledding Hill
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Sleeper and the Spindle
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2014

The Sleeping Car Porter
Suzette Mayr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It
W. Chris Winter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sleepwalker
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
Mira Jacob

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Slippery Slope
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Slynx
Tatyana Tolstaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Smell of Apples
Mark Behr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Smell Of Other People's Houses
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Smoke Jumper
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano, #3)
Andrea Camilleri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Snow Goose
Paul Gallico

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

The Snow Gypsy
Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Snowman
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
Joan D. Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

The Snows of Yesteryear
Gregor von Rezzori

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1762

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William H. Whyte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Social Structures of the Economy
Pierre Bourdieu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Sociological Imagination
C. Wright Mills

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus The Rest Of Us
Martha Stout

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Soldiers of Halla
D.J. MacHale

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Soldier's Wife
Margaret Leroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Solitaire Mystery
Sarah Jane Hails, Hilde Kramer, Jostein Gaarder

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1990

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship
Steve Lopez

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Someday Birds
Sally J. Pla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Someday Suitcase
Corey Ann Haydu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Sometimes Sisters
Carolyn Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Son
Philipp Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Song at the Scaffold
Gertrud von le Fort

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Songbird and the Heart of Stone
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse
Thomas Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Song Is You
Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Song of Bernadette
Franz Werfel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Song of David (The Law of Moses, #2)
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855

The Song of Roland
Unknown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1115

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Song of the Marked
S.M. Gaither

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Song Remains the Same
Allison Winn Scotch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Song Rising
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Son of the House
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Son's Veto
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1894

The Sorcerer in the North (Ranger's Apprentice, #5)
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Sorcerer Of The North
John A. Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations
Charles R. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sorceress
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Bảo Ninh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Sorrows of an American
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1774

The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Soulmate Equation
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018