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Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers
Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Silas Marner
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Silence
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Silence Fallen
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge, Transl. Becky L. Crook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Silence of the Grave
Bernard Scudder, Arnaldur Indriðason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Silence (Silence, #1)
Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Silent Child (Silent Child, #1)
Sarah A. Denzil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Silent in the Grave
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Silent Night
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Silent Prey (Lucas Davenport, #4)
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Silent Scream
Angela Marsons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Conrad Aiken

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1934

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Silent To The Bone
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Silent Victim
Caroline Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4)
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Silk
Alessandro Baricco

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1996

Silken Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Silver Alert
Lee Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Silver Bay
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Silver Borne
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Silverfin
Charlie Higson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
Emily Tesh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)
Chris Hammer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Silver Nitrate
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Silver on the Tree
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1977

Silver Shadows
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Silverthorn
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Silverview
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Donna J. Haraway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Simon the Fiddler
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Simple
Marie-Aude Murail

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Linda Ronstadt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Simple Genius
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Simple Jess (Tales from Marrying Stone, #2)
Pamela Morsi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Richard Kluger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Simple Perfection
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World
Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
Kim John Payne, Lisa M. Ross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Simplify: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed
Greg Lockwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
N.T. Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Simply Irresistible
Jill Shalvis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
N.T. Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Simply Lies
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sincerely, Carter
Whitney G.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Since We Fell
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Since You've Been Gone
Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Sin & Chocolate
K.F. Breene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
Frank Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Sing Down the Moon
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Singing in the Rain
Tim Hopgood

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2013

Single White Vampire
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sing Me Back Home
Merle Haggard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Sing to the Dawn
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sin in the Second City
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Sinless (Eye of the Beholder #1)
Sarah Tarkoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Sin & Magic
K.F. Breene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #4)
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Sins & Needles
Karina Halle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sins of the Cities of the Plain
Jack Saul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

Sins of the Night
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sin Undone
Larissa Ione

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Siren Queen
Nghi Vo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sirens & Muses
Antonia Angress

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1397

Sir Knight of the Splendid Way (Rare Collector's Series)
W.E. Cule

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1899

Sir Princess Petra's Mission (The Pen Pieyu Adventures, #3)
Diane Mae Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 15

Sir Princess Petra (The Pen Pieyu Adventures, #1)
Diane Mae Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sir Thursday
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

S is for Silence
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sisi: Empress on Her Own (Sisi, #2)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

SISTER
Rosamund Lupton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Sister Citizen
Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sister Heart
Sally Morgan

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2015

Sisterhood Everlasting
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sisterhood of Dune (Schools of Dune, #1)
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Sister of My Heart
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Sisters
Daisy Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Linda R. Hirshman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Sisters in the Wilderness
Charlotte Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
Delores S. Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Sisters of the Lost Nation
Nick Medina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993