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Sin in the Second City
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Sin & Magic
K.F. Breene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sinner
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sins & Needles
Karina Halle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sins of the Night
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sin Undone
Larissa Ione

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1397

Sir Thursday
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

S is for Silence
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

SISTER
Rosamund Lupton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Sister Citizen
Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sisterhood Everlasting
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

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

Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Sisters in the Wilderness
Charlotte Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Sisters One, Two, Three
Nancy Star

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sisters Red
Jackson Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

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
Luigi Pirandello, Transl. Edward Storer

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 Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard P. Feynman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

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

Sixth Grave on the Edge
Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Six Years
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Size 12 Is Not Fat
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Sizzling Sixteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Crew
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

Skeleton Key
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Skeleton Man
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Skeletons at the Feast
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Skellig
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Skels
Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skim
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Skin Game
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Skink—No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Skinny Legs and All
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Skin of the Sea
Natasha Bowen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Skin Tight
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Skin Trade
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Skinwalker
Faith Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Skip Beat!, Vol. 1
Yoshiki Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Skipping Christmas
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Skyhunter
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Sky Raiders
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Skysworn
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Skyward
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Slacker
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Slade House
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Slake's Limbo: 121 Days
Felice Holman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

Slam
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Slam!
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Slammed
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Slash
Slash, Anthony Bozza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Slated
Teri Terry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slaughterhouse
Carla H. Krueger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2009

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Slavery at Sea
Sowande M. Mustakeem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Slave to Sensation
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Slay
Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sleepers
Cate Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Sleeping Beauties
Owen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
David Lubar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sleep It Off, Lady
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sleep Tight
Rachel Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Slider
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Slightly Dangerous
Mary Balogh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Slightly Married
Mary Balogh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Slipping
John Toomey

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1998

Slob
Ellen Potter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009