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The Street Lawyer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Striker
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1869

The Submission
Amy Waldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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 Summer Book
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Summer Guests
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Summer I Was Sixteen
Geraldine Connolly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Summer of Broken Rules
K. L. Walther

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
William Saroyan

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1940

The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Byars

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

The Summer Pact
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 her flowers
Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

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 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 Sun Rising
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Surrogate Mother
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Survivors
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
Beth Lincoln

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Swimmer
John Cheever

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1964

The Swimmers
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1812

The Sword in the Tree
Clyde Robert Bulla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

The Sword of Kaigen
M. L. Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015