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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Speaking from Among the Bones
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

Speak No Evil
Uzodinma Iweala

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Speak Now
Kenji Yoshino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Spear
Nicola Griffith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Specials
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

Specters of Marx
Jacques Derrida

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Speedboat
Renata Adler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Speed of Life
Carol Weston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Speed-the-Plow
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Spell Bound
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Spellbreaker
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Spellmaker
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Spell of the Highlander
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Spells
Aprilynne Pike

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Spells for Forgetting
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
Sebastien de Castell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Sphere
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Sphinx
Anne Garréta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spider Bones
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Spider's Bite
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Spilled Blood
Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Spin
Robert Charles Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Spindle's End
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Spinning
Tillie Walden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Spinoza
Steven Nadler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff
Neil Rackham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, #1)
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Spirit Bound
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki

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

Spirit Hunters
Ellen Oh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Spiritual Leadership (Commitment To Spiritual Growth)
J. Oswald Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Splendor
Anna Godbersen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Splintered
A.G. Howard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Splintered (Splintered, #1)
A.G. Howard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Split
Swati Avasthi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Split Second
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #1)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq

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

Spoiler Alert
Michael Ausiello

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
Olivia Dade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
Olivia Dade

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoils
Brian Van Reet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Spook Country
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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 Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy
Frank Wedekind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Spring Fever
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Spring House
Mary Ellen Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Spring Moon
Bette Bao Lord

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
Michael Gallagher, Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Spring Torrents
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Sprint
Jake Knapp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Spud: Learning to Fly
John van de Ruit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Spy Camp
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Spying in High Heels (High Heels, #1)
Gemma Halliday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Spy School
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Spy School at Sea (Spy School, #9)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Spy School Revolution (Spy School, #8)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Spy School Secret Service (Spy School, #5)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Squire
Nadia Shammas, Sara Alfageeh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Squirm
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Squished
Megan Wagner Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sredni Vashtar
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

S. S. Proleterka
Fleur Jaeggy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Stag's Leap: Poems
Sharon Olds

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Stalin: Breaker of Nations
Robert Conquest

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Stalin's Children
Owen Matthews

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Stalking Darkness (Nightrunner, #2)
Lynn Flewelling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Stand By Me
Sheila O'Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Standing Female Nude
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Standing in Another Man's Grave (Inspector Rebus, #18)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Standing in the Rainbow (Elmwood Springs, #2)
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004