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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 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 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 Shropshire Lad, Poem XXXVI
A. E. Housman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

A Simple Favor
Darcey Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 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 Song Below Water
Bethany C. Morrow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Sorrowful Woman
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

A Sound Of Thunder
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

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 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

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 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 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

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 Sugar Fat
Michael Moss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Same Sun Here
Neela Vaswani, Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Sanditon
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Sandpiper
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

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

Saturday
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Saturday at the Canal
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

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

Savvy
Ingrid Law

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Say Yes
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

Scaffolding
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Scar Island
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Scarlet
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Christian McKay Heidicker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Scat
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Schooled
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Scorpions
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Scythe
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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

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
John Locke, C. B. Macpherson, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1689

Secret Daughter
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Secrets
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

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

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

Seven Days in June
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021