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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

Summer State of Mind
Kristy Woodson Harvey

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

Sundial
Catriona Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Finds You
Laura Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Sunny Side Up
Katie Sturino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Sunrise
Tea Obreht

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Swan Song
Charles Spencer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Taft
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Taipei Story
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Take Me to Your Leader
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Take Me With You
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Take Me With You
Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Take What You Can
Naima Coster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Talons of Power
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

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

Tampa
Alissa Nutting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Tangerine
Christine Mangan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Tangled up in You
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Taran Wanderer
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

Tara Road
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1835

Tartufo
Kira Jane Buxton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Taste of Salt
Frances Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Tatiana and Alexander
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023