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Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sleep It Off, Lady
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

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

Slot Machine
Chris Lynch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Slumdog Millionaire
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Slumming
Chad Heap

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Smaller and Smaller Circles
F.H. Batacan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Small Fires: Essays
Julie Marie Wade

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Small Gods
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Small Is Beautiful
Ernst F. Schumacher

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

Small Island
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Small World
David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Snow Bird
Lass Small

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Snowbound
Janice Kay Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Snow Falling in Spring
Moying Li

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2008

Snow in August
Pete Hamill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Snow White
Jacob Grimm

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1812

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Wanda Gág

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
Fredrick Mckissack, Patricia Mckissack

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Soldier Dog
Sam Angus

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Soldier Girls
Helen Thorpe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Solibo Magnificent
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Solider's Home
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Sombrero Fallout
Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
Harry Mazer, Peter Lerangis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Somebody Scream!
Marcus Reeves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Some Boys
Patty Blount

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Graham Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Some Luck
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Some of My Best Friends are Black
Tanner Colby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Someone to Talk To
Deborah Eisenberg

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Someone to Watch Over Me
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Something Happened
Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Something in the Air
Richard Hoffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Something Like Fate
Susane Colasanti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Something New Under the Sun
John Robert Mcneill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Something of Value
Robert Ruark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Something to Declare: Essays
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Song of a Captive Bird
Jasmin Darznik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Song of a Goat
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Song of the Buffalo Boy
Sherry Garland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

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 Innocence and of Experience
William Blake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1789

Songs of Willow Frost
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

Son of a Gun
Anne de Graaf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

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

Soul On Ice
Eldridge Cleaver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Sounder
William Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Southern Horrors
Crystal N. Feimster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Southern Lady Code
Helen Ellis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

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

So Yesterday
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Spanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Spark
Rachael Craw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

Speak Now
Kenji Yoshino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Specials
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Paula Gunn Allen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1989

Spies
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Spies of Mississippi
Rick Bowers

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spinoza
Steven Nadler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Spirit Bound
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Spirited Away
Cindy Miles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Split
Swati Avasthi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Spoils
Brian Van Reet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoonbenders
Daryl Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Spotted Horses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1931

SPQR
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Spring Moon
Bette Bao Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Sprint
Jake Knapp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Sredni Vashtar
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Stalin's Children
Owen Matthews

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Stand By Me
Sheila O'Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Stand Up That Mountain
Jay Erskine Leutze

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Starclimber
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008