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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Hugh Wheeler
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Jonathan Auxier
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Transl. Willard R. Trask, Mircea Eliade
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956
The Satyricon
Petronius, Transl. Piero Chiara, Transl. P.G. Walsh
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 60
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreaking Historical Novel of the Titanic
Shana Abe
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2024
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024
The Setting Sun and the Rolling World
Charles Mungoshi
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1987
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948
The Seven Tablets of Creation: The Enuma Elish
Leonard William King, ed.
Fiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE
The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Betty G. Birney
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Jonathan Kozol
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Jeff Hobbs
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Ernest Hemingway
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Peter Singer
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1999
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
George Stephanopoulos
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014)
Elizabeth Kolbert
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
John W. Blassingame
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Sharon McMahon
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus The Rest Of Us
Martha Stout
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship
Steve Lopez
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008
The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Ruth Wariner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020
The Speed Of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Jennifer E. Smith
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012
The Stories Julian Tells
Ann Cameron
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1981
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel García Márquez
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1903
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1927
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Will Durant
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1926
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—and a Vision for Change
Annie Leonard
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1962
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
William Saroyan
Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1940