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The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Schooldays of Jesus
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The School of Essential Ingredients
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scorpion Rules
Erin Bow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sculptor
Scott McCloud

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

The Sea Captain's Wife
Beth Powning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Second Coming
John Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Lola Shoneyin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Secret River
Kate Grenville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sentinel
Mark Oldfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Serpent and the Rope
Raja Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Shadow Dancer
Margaret Coel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Fatima Bhutto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Sherlockian
Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Shipping News
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Shock of the Fall
Nathan Filer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Silver Pigs
Lindsey Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Silver Swan
Elena Delbanco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Sky Fisherman
Craig Lesley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Song Is You
Arthur Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

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 Space Between Us
Zoya Pirzad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Sport of Kings
C.E. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sportswriter
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Square
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Stars are Fire
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Star Side of Bird Hill
Naomi Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Stolen Child
Keith Donohue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Stone Carvers
Jane Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Stone Virgins
Yvonne Vera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Stories We Tell
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Story of B
Daniel Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Story Of Beautiful Girl
Rachel Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Story of My Teeth
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Styx
Jonathon King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Summer Before the War
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Supernaturalist
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Surrounded
D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Sword of Truth
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Taming of the Queen
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Tenderness of Wolves
Stef Penney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Thousandth Floor
Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Throat
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Tiger's Bride
Merline Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Time in Between
David Bergen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Town
Conrad Richter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Turner House
Angela Flournoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Twelve
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Twentieth Wife
Indu Sundaresan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Underground Man
Mick Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Unquiet Earth
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
Keija Parssinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Unvanquished
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Usual Rules
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Village
Nikita Lalwani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Waiting Years
Fumiko Enchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Wall
Marlen Haushofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Wallcreeper
Nell Zink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Wandering Falcon
Jamil Ahmad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wangs vs. the World
Jade Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Wasted Vigil
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Waterworks
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Wedding
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wedding Gift
Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Weight of Silence
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Well and the Mine
Gin Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007