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Strange Flowers
Donal Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Strange Fruit
Lillian E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Strange Interlude
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Strange Meeting
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Strange Pilgrims
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy Stanley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Stranger in the Woods
Carl R. Sams II, Jean Stoick

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2000

Strangers
Taichi Yamada, Transl. Wayne P. Lammers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Strangers Drowning
Larissa Macfarquhar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Strangers from a Different Shore
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Strangers in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Strangers On A Train
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Strangers to Ourselves
Julia Kristeva

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Stranger With My Face
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Strange Sally Diamond
Liz Nugent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Strange Weather: Four Short Stories
Joe Hill

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Strategies of Fantasy
Brian Attebery

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Strawberry Fields
Marina Lewycka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Stray
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Streams of Silver
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

Street Love
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Street Magic
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

StrengthsFinder 2.0
Tom Rath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Strenuous Life
Theodore Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Striped Ice Cream
Joan M. Lexau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus, #4)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Stronger
Jeff Bauman, Bret Witter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Strong Horse Tea
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Strong Medicine
Arthur Hailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Strong Motion
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Structural Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Stuart Little
E. B. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Stubborn Twig
Lauren Kessler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Stuck In Neutral
Terry Trueman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Stuck Rubber Baby
Howard Cruse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Stuck-Up Suit
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Studies in Classic American Literature
D.H. Lawrence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Study for Obedience
Sarah Bernstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Study for the World's Body
David St. John

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Stuffed and Starved
Raj Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Stung
Bethany Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Stupid Fast
Geoff Herbach

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Styxx
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Dick Hebdige

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Submerged (Alaskan Courage, #1)
Dani Pettrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Subterranean
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Leidy Klotz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Suburban Warriors
Lisa Mcgirr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Succubus Blues
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Succubus Dreams
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Succubus Heat
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Succubus on Top
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Succubus Revealed
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Succubus Shadows
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Such A Pretty Girl
Laura Wiess

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Such a Quiet Place
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Such Big Dreams
Reema Patel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Such Kindness
Andre Dubus III

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sudden Death
Álvaro Enrigue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Etgar Keret

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Suddenly, Last Summer
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Suddenly You
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Sudden Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sufferance
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Suffer the Children
John Saul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)
Donna Leon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sufficiently Advanced Magic
Andrew Rowe

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Suffrage Songs and Verses
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sugar
Seressia Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Elizabeth Abbott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Sugar Changed the World
Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Sugar Daddies
Jade West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sugar Daddy
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007