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Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Gregory Bateson

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Still Alice
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Stillhouse Lake
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Still I Rise
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Still Life
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Still Life
Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Still Life in Landscape
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

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
Lucy Christopher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

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 Cold
Robert Swindells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Stone Cold Fox
Rachel Koller Croft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Stone Maidens
Lloyd Devereux Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Stone Mattress
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Stoner
John Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Storm Front
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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 My Life
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Stranded
Jeff Probst, Chris Tebbetts

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

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 from a Different Shore
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Strangers in Time
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Strong Female Character
Fern Brady

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

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
Marina Budhos, Marc Aronson

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 in the City
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Summer Island: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Summerland
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

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 Riley
Eva Bunting

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

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 Romance
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Summers at the Saint
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Sunny Side Up
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

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 Hope: Rethinking Heaven, The Resurrection, And The Mission Of The Church
N. T. Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Surprised by Joy
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

Surprised by Joy
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1815

Surrounded By Idiots
Thomas Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
Vanessa Woods, Brian Hare

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020