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A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 269

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1959

A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

A Sound Of Thunder
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

Sadie
Courtney Summers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Scar Island
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Scat
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Schooled
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Scythe
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Severance
Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1936

Shooting Kabul
N. H. Senzai

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Show Me a Sign
Ann Clare LeZotte

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1741

Siren Song
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Skink—No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Slacker
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Slam!
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Sold
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2006

So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

So Much Water So Close to Home
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Son
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1957

Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Son of the Mob
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Spare Parts
Buzz Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Speech Sounds
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki

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

Spy School
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Stardust
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Still I Rise
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

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

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2005

Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Storm Runners
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Stung
Bethany Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Sugar Changed the World
Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Sula
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Summer
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1917

Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Summer of the Mariposas
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Sweat
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Swindle
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Symptoms of Being Human
Jeff Garvin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1850

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The School For Good and Evil
Soman Chainani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The School Story
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Seventh Most Important Thing
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Shakespeare Stealer
Gary L. Blackwood

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

The Shining
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Silence Of The Lambs
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Silent Boy
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Silmarillion
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Sky Is Gray
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1963

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018