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The Spectacular
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Spectacular Now
Tim Tharp

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Sphinx Without a Secret
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Spinning Heart
Donal Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Spinoza Problem
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Spire
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Spirit of Laws
Montesquieu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

The Spiritual Combat
Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Spiritual Exercises
Ignatius of Loyola

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Sport of Kings
C.E. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Sportswriter
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
Jason Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Spy
Paulo Coelho, Zoë Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Clare Mulley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Square
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Square Root of Summer
Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Squatter and the Don
María Amparo Ruiz De Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Squire's Tale
Gerald Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)
Harry Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Stand
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Star
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Star Fox
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Starlet and the Spy
Ji-min Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Star Rover (Modern Library Classics)
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Stars are Fire
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stars Beneath Our Feet
David Barclay Moore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Star Side of Bird Hill
Naomi Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Star-Touched Queen
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The State and Revolution
Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1917

The Stationery Shop of Tehran
Marjan Kamali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Steel Kiss (Lincoln Rhyme, #12)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

The Stepsisters
Susan Mallery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sterile Cuckoo
John Nichols

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Still Point
Amy Sackville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Stochastic Man
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Stoic (Trilogy of desire, #3)
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Stolen Child
Lisa Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stolen Heir
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3)
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Stolen Marriage
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Stone Boy
Gina Berriault

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1957

The Stone Carvers
Jane Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Stone Child
Dan Poblocki

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Stone Gods
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Stonekeeper's Curse
Kazu Kibuishi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Stone Monkey
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Stone Raft
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Stones of Florence
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Stone Virgins
Yvonne Vera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Stopover
T.L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Storied Life Of Aj Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Stories of Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

The Stories We Tell
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Storm
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Storm Keeper's Island (Storm Keeper, #1)
Catherine Doyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Storm King
Brendan Duffy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Storm Runner
J. C. Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Storm We Made: A Novel
Vanessa Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1)
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Story of a Brief Marriage
Anuk Arudpragasam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Story of American Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Story of an African Farm
Olive Schreiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Story of Arthur Truluv
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

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