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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Salome
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Salt and Saffron
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Salt Houses
Hala Alyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Salt Kiss (Lyonesse, #1)
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Salt Sugar Fat
Michael Moss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Salvation: Black People And Love
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Salvation in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Salvation of a Saint
Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Samarkand
Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Morgan Housel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Same Kind Of Different As Me
Ron Hall, Lynn Vincent, Denver Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Same Sun Here
Neela Vaswani, Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Same Time Next Summer
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Same Time Next Year
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sammy And Juliana In Hollywood
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
Paul E. Johnson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
U.R. Ananthamurthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sam's Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Samson Agonistes
John Milton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1671

Samuel Johnson
John Wain

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Samurai Rising
Pamela S. Turner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Sanctuary
Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Sanctum
Madeleine Roux

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Sand Dollar
Sebastian Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sanditon
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1)
Richard Kadrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Sandpiper
Ellen Wittlinger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Sandry's Book
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Sandstorm
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #1)
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sandwich
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Sandworms of Dune (Dune, #8)
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Sanibel Flats (Doc Ford, #1)
Randy Wayne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sanshirō
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Santa Cruise (Santa's Crew #1)
Fern Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Santiago's Road Home
Alexandra Diaz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sapphique
Catherine Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Sapphire Flames
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sappho
Sappho

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Sarah Bishop
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Sarah's Quilt (Sarah Agnes Prine, #2)
Nancy E. Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Sarny: A life Remembered
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Sarrasine
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1830

Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Sarum: The Novel of England
Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sashenka (Moscow Trilogy #1)
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Satantango
László Krasznahorkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
James Sturm

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Satchmo Blows up the World
Penny M. Von Eschen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Satin Island
Tom Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Saturday
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alan Sillitoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Saturnalia (Marcus Didius Falco, #18)
Lindsey Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Saturnin
Zdeněk Jirotka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Saturn Run
John Sandford, Ctein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nancy Milford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Savaged
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Savage Inequalities
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Savage Lands
Stacey Marie Brown, Clare Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Savage Run
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Savages (Savages #2)
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Savannah Blues
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Savannah Breeze
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Saved
Edward Bond

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Benjamin Hall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Save Me
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Save Me a Seat
Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Save Me from Dangerous Men (Nikki Griffin, #1)
S.A. Lelchuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Save Queen of Sheba (A Puffin Book)
Louise Moeri

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Save the Date
Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Save What's Left
Elizabeth Castellano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Save Your Breath
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Saving 6
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015