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The Struggle
L.J. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

The Student
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

The Studying Hours
Sara Ney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Pine Cove, #3)
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Styx
Jonathon King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Žižek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Submission
Amy Waldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Submissive (Submissive, #1)
Tara Sue Me

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Substitute
Denise Grover Swank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Success Equation
Michael J. Mauboussin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Successful Investor: What 80 Million People Need to Know to Invest Profitably and Avoid Big Losses
William J. O'Neil

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sugar Queen
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Suitcase
Sergei Dovlatov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Summer Before the War
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Summer Book
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Summer Garden
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Summer Girl
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Summer House
Lauren K. Denton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Summer of 1787
David O. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

The Summer of Bad Ideas
Kiera Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Summer of Broken Rules
K. L. Walther

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Summer of Cotton Candy (Sweet Seasons, #1)
Debbie Viguié

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Summer of Songbirds
Kristy Woodson Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Byars

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

The Summer Place
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Summer Prince
Alaya Dawn Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Summer Proposal
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Summer that Melted Everything
Tiffany McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Summer Tree
Guy Gavriel Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Summer Without Men
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Summer Wives
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Summoning
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Sum of All Kisses
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Sun and the Starmaker
Rachel Griffin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie, #1)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Sundial
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sun Dog
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Sun Down Motel
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Sunflower
Simon Wiesenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Sunlit Man
Nabetse Zitro, Ernanda Souza, Kudriaken, Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

The Sunshine Boys
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Superlative A. Lincoln: Poems about our 16th President
Eileen Rajala Meyer

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
Michael Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Supernaturalist
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Superteacher Project
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Suppliants
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 464

The Supreme Gift
Paulo Coelho

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)
Edward Kelsey Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Surgeon
Leslie Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Surgeon's Daughter
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Surrender Tree
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Surrounded
D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Survivor
Kyle Mills, Armand Schultz, Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Survivors
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
Ben Sherwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Survivors (The Survivors, #1)
Amanda Havard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Suspect
Fiona Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Swamp Dwellers
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

The Swan House (The Swan House, #1)
Elizabeth Musser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Swarm
Frank Schätzing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sweetest Thing
Jill Shalvis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sweet Far Thing
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Sweet Gum Tree
Katherine Allred

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sweet Hereafter
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Sweetness of Forgetting
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
Pamela Terry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Swimmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Swimmers
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Swing
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1885

The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1812

The Switch
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Sword In The Stone
T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

The Sword of Kaigen
M. L. Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015