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Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Sisters in the Wilderness
Charlotte Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Sisters of the Yam
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Skeleton Crew
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Skellig
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Skels
Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skim
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Slake's Limbo: 121 Days
Felice Holman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Slated
Teri Terry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slaughterhouse
Carla H. Krueger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2009

Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Slavery at Sea
Sowande M. Mustakeem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping Beauties
Owen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sleep It Off, Lady
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success
Shawn Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Slipping
John Toomey

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1998

Slot Machine
Chris Lynch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Slumming
Chad Heap

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Smaller and Smaller Circles
F.H. Batacan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Small Fires: Essays
Julie Marie Wade

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Small Gods
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Small Is Beautiful
Ernst F. Schumacher

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

Small Island
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Small World
David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Snow Bird
Lass Small

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Snowbound
Janice Kay Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Snow Falling in Spring
Moying Li

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2008

Snow in August
Pete Hamill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Snow White
Jacob Grimm

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1812

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Wanda Gág

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
Fredrick Mckissack, Patricia Mckissack

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Soldier Dog
Sam Angus

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Soldier Girls
Helen Thorpe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Solibo Magnificent
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Solider's Home
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Sombrero Fallout
Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
Harry Mazer, Peter Lerangis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Somebody Scream!
Marcus Reeves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Some Boys
Patty Blount

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Graham Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Some Luck
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Some of My Best Friends are Black
Tanner Colby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Someone to Talk To
Deborah Eisenberg

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Someone to Watch Over Me
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Some Reflections Upon Marriage
Mary Astell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1700

Something Happened
Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Something in the Air
Richard Hoffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Something Like Fate
Susane Colasanti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Something New Under the Sun
John Robert Mcneill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Something of Value
Robert Ruark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Something to Declare: Essays
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

Some Thoughts Concerning Education
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1693

Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War
Jennifer Robson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Song of a Captive Bird
Jasmin Darznik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Song of a Goat
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Song of the Buffalo Boy
Sherry Garland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Song of the Shank
Jeffery Renard Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Song of the Sparrow
Lisa Ann Sandell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Songs for the New Depression
Kergan Edwards-Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1789

Songs of Willow Frost
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

Son of a Gun
Anne de Graaf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
Ramona Ausubel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sophie and the Rising Sun
Augusta Trobaugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Sorrow
Claribel Alegría

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Soul Catcher
Leigh Bridger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Soul On Ice
Eldridge Cleaver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Soul Searching
Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Southern Horrors
Crystal N. Feimster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Southern Lady Code
Helen Ellis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

South of Broad
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

So Yesterday
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

So You Want to Be a Wizard
Diane Duane

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Spanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007