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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

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

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
Transl. Edward Storer, Luigi Pirandello

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

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

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

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
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Small Spaces
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Small Steps
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Peg Kehret

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less
Roy Schwartz, Mike Allen, Jim Vandehei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Snapdragon
Kat Leyh

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Snow
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Snow
David Berman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
John Greenleaf Whittier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Snow Treasure
Illustr. Mary Reardon, Marie McSwigan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

So B. It
Sarah Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004