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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

Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Spare Parts
Joshua Davis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Spark
Rachael Craw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Sparkling Cyanide
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Speaking in Bones
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

Speak Now
Kenji Yoshino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Spellbound
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2005

Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Paula Gunn Allen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

Spies
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Spies of Mississippi
Rick Bowers

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spinoza
Steven Nadler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Spirit Bound
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Spirit Crossing
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Spirited Away
Cindy Miles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Split
Swati Avasthi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Spoils
Brian Van Reet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoonbenders
Daryl Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Spotted Horses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1931

SPQR
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Spring Moon
Bette Bao Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima, Transl. Michael Gallagher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Sprint
Jake Knapp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Sredni Vashtar
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Stalin's Children
Owen Matthews

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Stand By Me
Sheila O'Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Stand Up That Mountain
Jay Erskine Leutze

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Starclimber
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Star Food
Ethan Canin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Staring at the Sun
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Starlight
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Star of the Sea
Joseph O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Star Shipped
Cat Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Starsight
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Started Early, Took my Dog
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Startide Rising
David Brin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Starting Out in the Evening
Brian Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Start Something That Matters
Blake Mycoskie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

State of the Union
Nelson Lichtenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Staying Dry
Angelo J. Lucco, K. Lynette Pearce, Kathryn L. Burgio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Staying On
Paul Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered
Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Stephen King
Rocky Wood

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Sticks and Bones
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Sticks and Stones
Lynn Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Still Life With Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Still Life with Tornado
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Still Waters
Sara Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Stitches
David Small

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2009

Stolen
Ann-Helén Laestadius, Transl. Rachel Willson-Broyles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Stolen Children
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Stolen Into Slavery
Dennis B. Fradin, Judith Fradin

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Stolen Midnights
Katherine Quinn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

Stone Cold
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Stoner and Spaz
Ronald Koertge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Stones for Ibarra
Harriet Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Stones From the River
Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994