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Skels
Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skim
Mariko Tamaki

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

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Skinship
Yoon Choi

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Sky
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sky Daddy
Kate Folk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Skylark
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Sky's End
Marc J Gregson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Slake's Limbo: 121 Days
Felice Holman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Slanting Towards the Sea
Lidija Hilje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Slap Shot
Chelsea Curto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Slow Gods
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Town Girls
Jayne Anne Phillips

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Smart Women Finish Rich
David Bach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Smiles to Go
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Snow
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

So Happy Together
Olivia Worley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Some Reflections Upon Marriage
Mary Astell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1700

Something Blue
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

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

Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

So Much Blue
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Songbird of the Sorrows
Braidee Otto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Son of Nobody
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Son of the Morning
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

So Not Meant to Be
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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