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The Smell of Apples
Mark Behr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Smell Of Other People's Houses
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Smoke Jumper
Nicholas Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano, #3)
Andrea Camilleri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Snow Goose
Paul Gallico

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

The Snow Gypsy
Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Snowman
Raymond Briggs

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1978

The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
Joan D. Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

The Snows of Yesteryear
Gregor von Rezzori

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1762

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William H. Whyte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Social Structures of the Economy
Pierre Bourdieu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Sociological Imagination
C. Wright Mills

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Soldiers of Halla
D.J. MacHale

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Soldier's Wife
Margaret Leroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship
Steve Lopez

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The Someday Birds
Sally J. Pla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Someday Suitcase
Corey Ann Haydu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Sometimes Sisters
Carolyn Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Son
Clifford Dyment

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

The Song at the Scaffold
Gertrud von le Fort

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Songbird and the Heart of Stone
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse
Thomas Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Song Is You
Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Song of Bernadette
Franz Werfel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Song of David (The Law of Moses, #2)
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855

The Song of Roland
Unknown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Song of the Marked
S.M. Gaither

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Song Remains the Same
Allison Winn Scotch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Song Rising
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Son of the House
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Son's Veto
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1894

The Sorcerer Of The North
John A. Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations
Charles R. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994

The Sorceress
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Bảo Ninh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Sorrows of an American
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1774

The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Soulmate Equation
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

The Soul of the Indian
Charles Alexander Eastman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Sound Machine
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Sound of Glass
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Ruth Wariner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sound of Rain
Gregg Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Soundtrack of My Life
Clive Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Source
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Source of Magic
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Souvenir Museum
Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
Mary Rowlandson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1682

The Sovereignty of God
Arthur W. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Soviet Ambassador
Christopher Shulgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Space Between Here & Now
Sarah Suk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Space Between Us
Doug Johnstone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Spanish Daughter
Lorena Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

The Spare Room
Helen Garner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Sparsholt Affair
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Special
David Stavanger

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021