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GENRES

Spells for Forgetting
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sphere
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Spilled Milk: Based on a True Story
K.L Randis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff
Neil Rackham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2002

Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq

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

Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Spring and All
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy
Frank Wedekind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Spring is like a perhaps hand
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Spring Storm
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Spunk
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Spy Camp
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Spy School
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Squirm
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream
Mychal Denzel Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Stand Tall
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Jessica Kim

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Stardust
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Starfish
Lisa Fipps

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Stargazing
Jen Wang

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Starling House
Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Starry River of the Sky
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Starters
Lissa Price

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Starter Villain
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Start With Why
Simon Sinek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Stasiland
Anna Funder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

State of Fear
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

State of Terror
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Stay
Bobbie Pyron

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2022

Stay With Me
Ayobami Adebayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Bich Minh Nguyen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Steelheart
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Stef Soto, Taco Queen
Jennifer Torres

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Stella
McCall Hoyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Still Alice
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Stillhouse Lake
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Still I Rise
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Still Life
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Still Life
Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Still Life in Landscape
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Still Me
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Still to be neat, still to be dressed
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

Stolen
Lucy Christopher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Stone Cold Fox
Rachel Koller Croft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Stone Mattress
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Stoner
John Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Storm Ending
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Storm Front
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Storming Heaven
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1920

Storm Runners
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Story of O
Pauline Réage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Stranded
Jeff Probst, Chris Tebbetts

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Strange as this Weather Has Been
Ann Pancake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Stranger in the Village
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1953

Strangers from a Different Shore
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Strangers On A Train
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Strange Sally Diamond
Liz Nugent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Strawberry Spring
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968