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Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Strong Horse Tea
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Stubborn Twig
Lauren Kessler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Study for the World's Body
David St. John

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Stuffed and Starved
Raj Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Suburban Warriors
Lisa Mcgirr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Such A Pretty Girl
Laura Wiess

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

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

Sugar
Seressia Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Summerlost
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Sara Pennypacker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Sunday Jews
Hortense Calisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1912

Sure Thing
David Ives

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Surfacing
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

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

Sway
Jennifer Gibson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Swear to Howdy
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Sweet Bird of Youth
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Sweetland
Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sweetness in the Belly
Camilla Gibb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

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

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

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

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Taking Flight
Sheena Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1947

Talkin' About Bessie
Nikki Grimes

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2002

Talk Talk
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

Taming The Star Runner
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Teach Yourself How to Learn
Saundra Yancy McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1961

Tell Me Your Dreams
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

Tender at the Bone
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Tending to Grace
Kimberly Newton Fusco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Ten Little Indians
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
Robert Bernard Martin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Ten Things I Hate About Me
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Terrible Typhoid Mary
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima

Novel | Published in 1979

Tess
Kirsten Mcdougall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Testimony: A Memoir
Robbie Robertson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Testimony of Pilot
Barry Hannah

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Texaco
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Thanksgiving
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Thanks to My Mother
Schoschana Rabinovici

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Thank You For Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

That Championship Season
Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

That Evening Sun
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

That Kind of Mother
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

That Long Silence
Shashi Deshpande

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The 13th Valley
John M. Del Vecchio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The 19th Wife
David Ebershoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Accidental Asian
Eric Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Accident Season
Moira Fowley-Doyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Acharnians
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 425

The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The Affair
C. P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1958

The African Queen
C. S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Afterlife
Donald Antrim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Agony of Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Aguero Sisters: A Novel
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1949