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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1920

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Story of Hong Gildong
Anonymous, Transl. Minsoo Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1600

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1903

The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem van Loon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Story of Mary Maclane
Mary MacLane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1927

The Story of My Life
Helen Keller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1902

The Story of My Misfortunes
Pierre Abélard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Story of My Teeth
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
E. K. Johnston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Will Durant

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1926

The Story of Rolf & the Viking Bow
Allen French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Story of the Amulet (The Psammead Trilogy, #3)
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

The Story of the Human Body
Daniel Lieberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Story of the Jews
Simon Schama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
Maria Augusta von Trapp

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1899

The Story of Tom Brennan
J.C. Burke

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Story of Tracy Beaker
Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Story of Us
Deb Caletti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Story of Zahra
Hanan al-Shaykh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Story Sisters
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Storyteller
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Storyteller of Casablanca
Fiona Valpy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Storyteller's Secret
Sejal Badani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Storytelling Animal
Jonathan Gottschall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Story That Cannot Be Told
J. Kasper Kramer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Strain
Chuck Hogan, Guillermo del Toro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Strange Career of Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

The Strange Career of William Ellis
Karl Jacoby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Stranger
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

The Stranger Diaries
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Stranger in Her House
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Stranger in the Mirror
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Stranger in the Woods
Michael Finkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Strangers
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Strangest Secret
Earl Nightingale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Strangled Queen (The Accursed Kings, #2)
Maurice Druon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat, #4)
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Strays
Emily Bitto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Street
Ann Petry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Street Lawyer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Strength In Our Scars
Bianca Sparacino

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Stress of Her Regard
Tim Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Stronger
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1906

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Struggle
L.J. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1999

The Student
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Studying Hours
Sara Ney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Styx
Jonathon King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Žižek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Submission
Amy Waldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Submissive (Submissive, #1)
Tara Sue Me

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Substitute
Denise Grover Swank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Success Equation
Michael J. Mauboussin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Sugar Queen
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Suitcase
Sergei Dovlatov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1990

The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Summer Before the War
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Summer Book
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Summer Children (The Collector, #3)
Dot Hutchison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Summer Garden
Paullina Simons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Summer Girl
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Summer House
Lauren K. Denton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Summer of 1787
David O. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

The Summer of Bad Ideas
Kiera Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Summer of Broken Rules
K. L. Walther

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Summer of Cotton Candy (Sweet Seasons, #1)
Debbie Viguié

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Summer of Songbirds
Kristy Woodson Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Byars

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970