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Such Sharp Teeth
Rachel Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sudden Death
Álvaro Enrigue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Etgar Keret

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Sufferance
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sugar
Seressia Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sugar
Bernice L. McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Suicidal Empathy
Gad Saad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Suicide Forest
Jeremy Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Suicide Notes
Michael Thomas Ford

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Sulfur Springs
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
Thomas Aquinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1264

Summer Knight
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Summerlost
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Summer of '42
Herman Raucher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Summer of Night
Dan Simmons

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Sara Pennypacker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Summer of the Sea Serpent
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Summer's Never Over
Darby Bozeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Sunbringer
Hannah Kaner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Sunburn
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sunday Jews
Hortense Calisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Sundays at Tiffany's
Gabrielle Charbonnet, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sunflower Sisters
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sun House
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sunlight
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Sunny Side Up
Katie Sturino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Sunset
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Sunset of the Sabertooth
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Sunshine
Marion Dane Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1912

Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Dr. William Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Supermarket
Bobby Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Supernova
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Maria Bamford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Sure Thing
David Ives

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Surfacing
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Surprised by Oxford
Carolyn Weber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Surrender
Bono

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Survival
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Survival In Auschwitz
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1947

Surviving Hitler
Andrea Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Survivor in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Sway
Jennifer Gibson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Swear on This Life
Renee Carlino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Swear to Howdy
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Sweet Heat
Bolu Babalola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Sweetland
Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sweetness in the Belly
Camilla Gibb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sweet Temptation
Cora Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Swift and Saddled
Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Swimming to Antarctica
Lynne Cox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Swim That Rock
John Rocco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Swim the Fly
Don Calame

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Swiss Sonata
Gwethalyn Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Switchboard Soldiers
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Sword at Sunset
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Sword Catcher
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sword Citadel
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Sword Song
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Sword Song
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sworn to Silence
Linda Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sworn Virgin
Elvira Dones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Symphony for the City of the Dead
M. T. Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Sacred Balance
David Suzuki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1963

The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource
Jeffrey Gitomer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Salt Thief
Neal Bascomb

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2024

The Same Stuff as Stars
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sandman and the War of Dreams
William Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Sane Society
Erich Fromm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

The Sasquatch at Home
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Craig Davidson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Ron Currie Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Scar Boys
Len Vlahos

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Scarecrow
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scarlet Thread
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Schooldays of Jesus
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The School of Essential Ingredients
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The School Of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy
Lewis Howes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1910

The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Score
C. Thi Nguyen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scorpion Rules
Erin Bow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Scorpion's Tail
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021