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Still Me
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Still to be neat, still to be dressed
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Stone Mattress
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Stoner
John Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Storm Ending
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Storming Heaven
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1920

Storm Runners
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Story of O
Pauline Réage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Strange as this Weather Has Been
Ann Pancake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Stranger in the Village
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1953

Strangers On A Train
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Strange Sally Diamond
Liz Nugent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Strawberry Spring
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

Street Love
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Stuart Little
E. B. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Stuck In Neutral
Terry Trueman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Stung
Bethany Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Stupid Fast
Geoff Herbach

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Success Is Counted Sweetest
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1864

Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Such, Such Were the Joys
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1952

Suddenly, Last Summer
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Sugar
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Sugar Changed the World
Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sula
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Sultana's Dream
Begum Rokeya

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1274

Summer
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1917

Summer Ball
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Summer of '69
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Summer of the Mariposas
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Summer Sisters
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Sunday Morning
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Sunjata)
Djibril Tamsir Niane (D.T. Niane), Transl. G. D. Pickett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1200

Sunny
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Superfudge
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Supergifted
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

Surprised by Joy
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

Surrounded By Idiots
Thomas Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Survive the Night: A Novel
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Surviving Savannah
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Surviving the Applewhites
Stephanie S. Tolan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Survivor Type
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

Suttree
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Swallowing Stones
Joyce Mcdonald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Swami and Friends
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1935

Swamplandia
Karen Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Swan and Shadow
John Hollander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume One
Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Sweat
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1926

Sweat
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sweetness
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Sweetness and Power
Sidney W. Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Swim Team
Johnnie Christmas

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Swindle
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Swing
Mary Rand Hess, Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2018

Swing Time
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sword of Destiny
Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Sybil
Flora Rheta Schreiber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Sycamore Row
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sylvia And Aki
Winifred Conkling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

Symphony of Secrets
Brendan Slocumb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Symposium
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 380

Symptoms of Being Human
Jeff Garvin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade, Transl. Willard R. Trask

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

The Saints of Swallow Hill
Donna Everhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Salt Path
Raynor Winn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Samurai's Garden
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Samurai's Tale
Erik Christian Haugaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sandbox
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959