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A Salty Piece of Land
Jimmy Buffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Season in the Congo
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Marie-Claire Blais

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Secret Kept
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Serious Proposal To The Ladies
Mary Astell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Shining Thread of Hope
Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

A Short Guide to Writing About Art
Sylvan Barnet

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult

A Short History of the United States
Edward Channing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Silver Dish
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Simple Favor
Darcey Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Simple Heart
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novella | Adult

A Simple Plan
Scott B. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult

A Soldier of the Great War
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Soldier's Secret
Marissa Moss

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Solitary Blue
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Son of the Circus
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Spark of Light
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Spell for Chameleon
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Step from Death
Larry Woiwode

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Step from Heaven
An Na

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Step Toward Falling
Cammie McGovern

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jim St. Germain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA

A Story Teller's Story
Sherwood Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Strange and Sublime Address
Amit Chaudhuri

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Stranger Among Us
Stacy Bierlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Stranger is Watching
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Sudden Light
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Sudden Silence
Eve Bunting

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Summer Life
Gary Soto

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

A Summer's Reading
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Summer Tragedy
Arna Bontemps

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil Courtemanche

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult

A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA

Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sabriel
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | YA

Sacred Clowns
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sacred Ground
Eboo Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Safely Home
Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saffron Dreams
Shaila M. Abdullah

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sahara Special
Esmé Raji Codell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Sailor Moon
Naoko Takeuchi

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade

Sailor Song
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saint Anything
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA

Saint Iggy
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA

Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult

Saint Maybe
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saint Mazie
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saints and Villains
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saints for All Occasions
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Salem Falls
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Salvation: Black People And Love
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Samarkand
Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sammy And Juliana In Hollywood
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA

Sam's Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Samson Agonistes
John Milton

Fiction | Play | Adult

Samuel Johnson
John Wain

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Samurai Rising
Pamela S. Turner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Sand Dollar
Sebastian Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sarah Bishop
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | YA

Sarrasine
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
James Sturm

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade

Satchmo Blows up the World
Penny M. Von Eschen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Satin Island
Tom Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saving Ceecee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saving Fish from Drowning
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saving Francesca
Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | YA

Saving Grace
Raeanne Thayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saving Zasha
Randi Barrow

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Savvy
Ingrid Law

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Say Goodnight, Gracie
Julie Reece Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Saying Grace
Beth Gutcheon

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Say What You Will
Cammie McGovern

Fiction | Novel | YA

Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Scarlet
A.C. Gaughen

Fiction | Novel | YA

Scarlet Song
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Scars of Sweet Paradise
Alice Echols

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult