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Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Second Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Second Treatise of Government
John Locke, C. B. Macpherson, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1689

Secret Daughter
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Secrets
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

See How the Roses Burn!
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valarie Kaur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Selecting a Reader
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1841

Selling Manhattan
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Selma, 1965
Gloria Larry House

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

September 1, 1939
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

September Suite
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Seven Days in June
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Guitars
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Seventeen Syllables
Hisaye Yamamoto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

Severance
Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sexual Politics
Kate Millett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Sexy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

Shades of Gray
Carolyn Reeder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shadow Jumper
J M Forster

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadowshaper
Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Shake Hands with the Devil
Roméo Dallaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Shame
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Shanghai Girls
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sharks In The Time Of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Shattering Glass
Gail Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Sheep In Fog
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Shell Shaker
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

She Said
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1773

She Walks in Beauty
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1814

She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Shift
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Shipwreck
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Shirley
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Shoe Dog
Phil Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition
Phil Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Shogun
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Shooter
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1936

Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Short
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Shoulders
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Shouting at the Rain
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Show Me a Sign
Ann Clare LeZotte

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Shrines of Gaiety
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Siege and Storm
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Signal Fires
Dani Shapiro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Signs and Symbols
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

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

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Silverwing
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

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 Recipes
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
N. T. Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Sing Down the Moon
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1741

Siren Song
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

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

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Sisters
Raina Telgemeier

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020