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A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 269

A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1891

A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A Scatter Of Light
Malinda Lo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Sea of Unspoken Things
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Secular Age
Charles Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence Sterne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1768

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1959

A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Sheldon Vanauken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

A Shadow in the Ember
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837
Paul E. Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de Las Casas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1552

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Short Walk Through a Wide World
Douglas Westerbeke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Shropshire Lad, Poem XXXVI
A. E. Housman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1790

A Simple Favor
Darcey Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Simple Heart
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1877

A Single Man: A Novel
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

A Small Good Thing
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

A Small Needful Fact
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988

A Snake Falls to Earth
Darcie Little Badger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Snicker of Magic
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

A Song Below Water
Bethany C. Morrow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Song to Drown Rivers
Ann Liang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Sorceress Comes to Call
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Sorrowful Woman
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

A Soul of Ash and Blood
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Soul to Keep
Opal Reyne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Sound Of Thunder
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

A Spark of Light
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Stolen Life: A Memoir
Jaycee Dugard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

A Study in Charlotte
Brittany Cavallaro

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

A Summer Tragedy
Arna Bontemps

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Sabbaths, WI
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Sabrina & Corina: Stories
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Sadie
Courtney Summers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Sad Steps
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
Joe Sacco

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Safe Haven
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Sailing to Sarantium
Guy Gavriel Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr
Miguel de Unamuno

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1923

Saints and Misfits
S. K. Ali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Saints at the River
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
Carlos Hernandez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Paul S. Boyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Salome
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Salt Sugar Fat
Michael Moss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Stephanie E. Smallwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Dennis Covington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Same As It Ever Was: A Novel
Claire Lombardo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Same Kind Of Different As Me
Lynn Vincent, Ron Hall, Denver Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Same Sun Here
Silas House, Neela Vaswani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Same Time Next Summer
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
Paul E. Johnson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Samson Agonistes
John Milton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1671

Sanctuary
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Sanctuary
Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Sanditon
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Sandpiper
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Sandwich
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Satan's Affair
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Saturday
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Saturday at the Canal
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Savage Inequalities
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Saving 6
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Saving Noah
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Saving Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Saving Winslow
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Savvy
Ingrid Law

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Saying Goodbye to Yang
Alexander Weinstein

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2016

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Say Yes
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

Say You Swear (Boys of Avix, #1)
Meagan Brandy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Scaffolding
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Michael Easter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Scar Island
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Scarlet
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Scarred
Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Christian McKay Heidicker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
Alvin Schwartz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Scat
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Scattered All Over the Earth
Transl. Margaret Mitsutani, Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Scenes of Subjection
Saidiya V. Hartman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Schooled
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Schooled
Paul Langan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

School Trip
Jerry Craft

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Scorpions
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Scrawl
Mark Shulman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Scritch Scratch
Lindsay Currie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Scythe
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Scythe & Sparrow
Brynne Weaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Seal Lullaby
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sea Prayer
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Searching for Sylvie Lee
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Second Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Second Treatise of Government
C. B. Macpherson, ed., John Locke

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1689

Secret Coders
Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Secret Daughter
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1952

Secrets
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Secrets of a Charmed Life
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

See How the Roses Burn!
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valarie Kaur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Selecting a Reader
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1841

Selling Manhattan
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Selma, 1965
Gloria Larry House

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

Separate Pasts: Growing Up White In The Segregated South
Melton A. McLaurin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

September 1, 1939
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

September Suite
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Nedra Glover Tawwab

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 467

Seven Days in June
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Seven Guitars
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Seventeen Syllables
Hisaye Yamamoto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

Severance
Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sex and Vanity: A Novel
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sexual Politics
Kate Millett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Sexy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

Shades of Gray
Carolyn Reeder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Shadow Jumper
J M Forster

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadowshaper
Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Shadows of Sherwood
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Shake Hands with the Devil
Roméo Dallaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Shaken
Tim Tebow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Shame
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Shanghai Girls
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Shark Heart: A Love Story
Emily Habeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sharks In The Time Of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Shattering Glass
Gail Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Sheep
Valerie Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Sheep In Fog
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Shell Shaker
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Shelterwood
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

She Said
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

She's Not Sorry
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Memoir in Verse | Adult | Published in 2024

She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1773

She Walks in Beauty
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1814

She Was a Phantom of Delight
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult

She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Shift
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Shiloh Season
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Shipwreck
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Jennifer Armstrong

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Shirley
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Shiver
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Shoe Dog
Phil Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition
Phil Knight

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Shogun
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Shooter
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1936

Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Short
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Shoulders
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Shouting at the Rain
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Show Me a Sign
Ann Clare LeZotte

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Shred Sisters
Betsy Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Shrines of Gaiety
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

Siege and Storm
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Signal Fires
Dani Shapiro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Signs and Symbols
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Silas Marner
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Silent To The Bone
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Silverwing
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Simon Sort of Says
Erin Bow

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Simon the Fiddler
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Simple Recipes
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
N. T. Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Simulacra and Simulation
Transl. Sheila Faria Glaser, Jean Baudrillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Sing Down the Moon
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1741

Sipsworth
Simon Van Booy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Siren Song
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1397

Sir Orfeo
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1329

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Sister of My Heart
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Sisters
Raina Telgemeier

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello, Transl. Edward Storer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1921

Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Six Feet of the Country
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Six Records of a Floating Life
Shen Fu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1809

Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
A. F. Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Skeleton Creek
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Skeleton Man
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Skin
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Skink—No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Skinnybones
Barbara Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Skin of the Sea
Natasha Bowen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Skipping Christmas
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sky Full of Elephants
Cebo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Skylark
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Skyshade
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Skyward
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Slacker
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Slam
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Slam!
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Slam, Dunk, & Hook
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Slammed
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Slave on the Block
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Slay
Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
David Lubar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Slider
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Slob
Ellen Potter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1968

Slow Dance
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Slow Horses
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Rob Nixon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
Jo Watson Hackl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Small as an Elephant
Jennifer Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Small Great Things
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Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023