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Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Second Chance Summer

Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Second Life

S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Secrets to the Grave

Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Seeing Things

Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

Seize the Day

Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Selection Day

Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sent for You Yesterday

John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Seraph on the Suwanee

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Serena

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Set This House on Fire

William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sexing the Cherry

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Shades

Marguerite Poland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shades of Gray

Jessica James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Shades of Grey

Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shadow on the Mountain

Margi Preus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Shadows on the Rock

Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Shadow Tag

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shards

Ismet Prcic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Shattered

Jay Bonansinga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Shelter

Jung Yun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

She Walks In Beauty

Siri L. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Shooting Star

Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Side-Kicked

Russell Brettholtz

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Silence

Shūsaku Endō

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Silk

Alessandro Baricco

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1996

Sisterland

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Skels

Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skinwalkers

Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Slade House

David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Slaughterhouse

Carla H. Krueger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2009

Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping on Jupiter

Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sleepless Nights

Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sleepwalking Land

Mia Couto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Slipping

John Toomey

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1998

Slumdog Millionaire

Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Smaller and Smaller Circles

F.H. Batacan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Small Gods

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Small World

David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Snow Bird

Lass Small

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Snowbound

Janice Kay Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Snow in August

Pete Hamill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Solibo Magnificent

Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sombrero Fallout

Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Graham Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Some Luck

Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Someone to Watch Over Me

Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Something Happened

Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Something of Value

Robert Ruark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Song of a Captive Bird

Jasmin Darznik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Willow Frost

Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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

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

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Spies

Michael Frayn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spirited Away

Cindy Miles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Spoils

Brian Van Reet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoonbenders

Daryl Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spotted Horses

William Faulkner

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1931

Spring Moon

Bette Bao Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Stand By Me

Sheila O'Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Staring at the Sun

Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Star of the Sea

Joseph O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Still Waters

Sara Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Stone Cold

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Stones for Ibarra

Harriet Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Stones From the River

Ursula Hegi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Strange Meeting

Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Strawberry Fields

Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sudden Death

Álvaro Enrigue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sugar

Seressia Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sunday Jews

Hortense Calisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Sunset Song

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Sure Thing

David Ives

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

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

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