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A Salty Piece of Land
Jimmy Buffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Season in the Congo
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Marie-Claire Blais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

A Secret Kept
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Mary Astell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series)
Sylvan Barnet

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Short History of the United States
Edward Channing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Silver Dish
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

A Simple Plan
Scott B. Smith, Scott Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

A Soldier of the Great War
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Soldier's Secret
Marissa Moss

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

A Solitary Blue (Tillerman Cycle, #3)
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Son of the Circus
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth, #1)
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1977

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Step from Death
Larry Woiwode

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Step from Heaven
An Na

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

A Step Toward Falling
Cammie McGovern

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

A Stone of Hope: A Memoir
Jon Sternfeld, Jim St. Germain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Story Teller's Story
Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Strange and Sublime Address
Amit Chaudhuri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection
Josip Novakovich, Laila Lalami, Mary Yukari Waters, Roy Kesey, Petina Gappah, Wanda Coleman, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Etgar Keret, Ana Menéndez, Dika Lam, Carolyn Alessio, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Stacy Bierlein, Shabnam Nadiya, Samrat Upadhyay, Aimee Liu

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

A Stranger Is Watching
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Sudden Light
Garth Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Sudden Silence
Eve Bunting

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Summer Life (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Gary Soto

Fiction | Short Story | Published in 1991

A Summer's Reading
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1983

A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil Courtemanche

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1981

Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1996

Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee, #11)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Eboo Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Safely Home
Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Saffron Dreams (Reflections of America)
Shaila M. Abdullah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sahara Special
Esmé Raji Codell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Sailor Moon 7 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection) (Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection)
Naoko Takeuchi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2024

Sailor Song
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Saint Anything
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Saint Iggy
K. L. Going, K.L. Going

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Saint Maybe
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Saint Mazie
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Saints and Villains
Denise Giardina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Saints for All Occasions
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Salem Falls
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Salvation: Black People and Love
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Samarkand
Russell Harris, Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Sam's Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Samuel Johnson
John Wain

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Gareth Hinds, Pamela S. Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Sam Walton: Made In America
Sam Walton, John Huey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love
Sebastian Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martínez, Helen R. Lane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sarah Bishop
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

Sarrasine
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1830

Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
James Sturm, Rich Tommaso

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
Penny M. Von Eschen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Satin Island
Tom Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Save Me the Waltz
Harry T. Moore, Zelda Fitzgerald, Lucie Mikolajková

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman, Jenna Lamia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Saving Fish from Drowning
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Saving Francesca
Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Saving Grace
Raeanne Thayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Saving Zasha (Zasha, #1)
Randi Barrow

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Say Goodnight, Gracie
Julie Reece Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1989

Saying Grace
Beth Gutcheon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Say What You Will
Cammie McGovern

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

Scarlet (Scarlet, #1)
A.C. Gaughen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Scarlet Song
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Alice Echols

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Scar Tissue: A Novel
Michael Ignatieff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories (Classics of Asian American Literature)
Bienvenido N. Santos

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
Fatema Mernissi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

School Days (St.in African Amer.History & Culture)
Patrick Chamoiseau, Linda Coverdale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Scoop
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Nick Perry, Ken Armstrong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Scoundrel Time
Garry Wills, Kathy Bates, Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
Adam Shepard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Scribbler of Dreams
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
Emily Raboteau, Emily Raboteau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
David Talbot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Second Chance Summer
Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Second Life
S. J. Watson, S.J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015