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The Summer Place
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Summer Prince
Alaya Dawn Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Summer Proposal
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Summer that Melted Everything
Tiffany McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Summer Tree
Guy Gavriel Kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Summer Without Men
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Summer Wives
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Summoning
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Summons
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Sum of All Kisses
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
Aiden Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Sundial
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sun Dog
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Sun Down Motel
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Sunflower
Simon Wiesenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Sunken Land
Fritz Leiber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sunlit Man
Nabetse Zitro, Ernanda Souza, Kudriaken, Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

The Sunshine Boys
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2010

The Supernaturalist
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Suppliants
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Supreme Gift
Paulo Coelho

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen, Leslie Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Surgeon's Daughter
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Surrender Tree
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Surrounded
D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Survivor
Kyle Mills, Armand Schultz, Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Survivors
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Survivors (The Survivors, #1)
Amanda Havard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Suspect
Fiona Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Swamp Dwellers
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

The Swan House (The Swan House, #1)
Elizabeth Musser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Swarm
Frank Schätzing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sweetest Thing
Jill Shalvis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sweet Far Thing
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Sweet Gum Tree
Katherine Allred

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sweet Hereafter
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Sweetness of Forgetting
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
Pamela Terry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Swimmers
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Swing
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1812

The Switch
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Sword In The Stone
T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

The Sword of Kaigen
M. L. Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, #3)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Sword of Truth
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Sword Thief
Peter Lerangis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Sworn (Fallen Kings Cycle, #1)
Gail Z. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020