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The Soundtrack of My Life
Clive Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Source
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Source of Magic
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1979

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Natalie Y. Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Souvenir Museum
Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
Mary Rowlandson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1682

The Sovereignty of God
Arthur W. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1917

The Soviet Ambassador
Christopher Shulgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Space Between Us
Zoya Pirzad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Spanish Civil War

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Spanish Daughter
Lorena Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

The Spare Man

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Spare Room
Helen Garner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Special
David Stavanger

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Speckled Band

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Jennifer Lee Carrell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Spectacular
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Spectacular Now
Tim Tharp

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Speed Of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Sphinx Without a Secret
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1887

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
David Enrich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Spinoza Problem
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Spire
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Spirit of Laws
Montesquieu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

The Spiritual Combat
Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1589

The Spiritual Exercises
Ignatius of Loyola

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1548

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Spoils of Poynton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Sport of Kings
C.E. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Sportswriter
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
Jason Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Spy
Paulo Coelho, Zoë Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Spy who Loved School Dinners (Baby Aliens, #2)
Pamela Butchart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Clare Mulley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Spy with the Wooden Leg: The Story of Virginia Hall
Nancy Polette

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Square
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Square Root of Summer
Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Squatter and the Don
María Amparo Ruiz De Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Squire's Tale
Gerald Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)
Harry Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Stand
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Star
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

The Star and the Shamrock (The Star and the Shamrock #1)
Jean Grainger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Star Fox
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Starlet and the Spy
Ji-min Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Star Rover (Modern Library Classics)
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

The Stars are Fire
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Star Side of Bird Hill
Naomi Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Star That Always Stays

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Start of Me and You (The Start of Me and You, #1)
Emery Lord

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Star-Touched Queen
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth
Eric Ries

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Starving Saints
Caitlin Starling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The State and Revolution
Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1917

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stationery Shop
Marjan Kamali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Stationery Shop of Tehran
Marjan Kamali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Steel Kiss (Lincoln Rhyme, #12)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1881

The Stepsisters
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sterile Cuckoo
John Nichols

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Still Point
Amy Sackville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Stochastic Man
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Stoic (Trilogy of desire, #3)
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Stolen Child
Lisa Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stolen Heir
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Stolen Marriage
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Stone Boy
Gina Berriault

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1957

The Stone Carvers
Jane Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001