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Stones into Schools
Greg Mortenson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Stones in Water
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Stonewall's Gold
Robert J. Mrazek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Stop Overthinking
Nick Trenton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Storm Catchers
Tim Bowler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Storytelling With Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Stowaway
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Straight Man
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Strange Folk
Alli Dyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Strange Interlude
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Strange Meeting
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Stranger in the Woods
Carl R. Sams II, Jean Stoick

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2000

Strangers Drowning
Larissa Macfarquhar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Stranger With My Face
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Strawberry Fields
Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
Tom Rath, Barry Conchie

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2007

StrengthsFinder 2.0
Tom Rath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Studies in Words
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

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

Such Charming Liars
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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 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 Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

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 on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Sunny Side Up
Katie Sturino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Supernova
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sure Thing
David Ives

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Surfacing
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Surrender
Bono

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

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 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 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

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 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

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

System Collapse
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Taft
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Taiwan Travelogue
Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ, Transl. Lin King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Taken
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Take The Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success
Rory Vaden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

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

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Talkin' About Bessie
Nikki Grimes

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

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Yanis Varoufakis, Transl. Jacob Moe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Talk of the Town
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Tame Your Thoughts
Max Lucado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Taming The Star Runner
S. E. Hinton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1835

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Telephone
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008