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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello, Transl. Edward Storer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1921

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Luigi Pirandello

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2010

Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Six Days of the Condor
James Grady

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard P. Feynman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Six Four
Hideo Yokoyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Six-Gun Snow White
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Six Records of a Floating Life
Shen Fu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1809

Six Suspects
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sixteenth Summer (Sixteenth Summer, #1)
Michelle Dalton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
Barthe DeClements

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Sixth Grave on the Edge
Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Six Wakes
Mur Lafferty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Six Years
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881
James B. Gillett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1)
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Sizzling Sixteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
Irvine Welsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
A. F. Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Skeleton Creek
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Skeleton Crew
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

Skeleton Key
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Skeleton Man
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Skeletons at the Feast
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Skellig
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Skels
Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skim
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Skin Deep
Charles Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Skin Game
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Skink—No Surrender
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Skinny
Donna Cooner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2)
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Skinny Legs and All
Tom Robbins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Skin of the Sea
Natasha Bowen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Skin Tight
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Skin Trade
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Skinwalker
Faith Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Skip Beat!, Vol. 1
Yoshiki Nakamura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Skipping Christmas
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)
Amy Timberlake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Skunk Hour
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Sky Island
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Sky Raiders (Five Kingdoms, #1)
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Skysworn
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Skyward
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Slacker
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Slade House
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Slake's Limbo: 121 Days
Felice Holman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Slam
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Slam!
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Slammed
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slammerkin
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Slan (Slan, #1)
A.E. van Vogt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Slash
Slash, Anthony Bozza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Slated
Teri Terry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Slaughterhouse
Carla H. Krueger

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2009

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Philip D. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Slave Old Man
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Slave Play
Jeremy O. Harris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2020

Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Slavery at Sea
Sowande M. Mustakeem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Slave to Sensation
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Slay
Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sleep Donation
Karen Russell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

Sleepers
Lorenzo Carcaterra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Sleeping Beauties
Owen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1697

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
David Lubar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sleeping in the woods
David Wagoner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sleep It Off, Lady
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1936

Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sleepovers
Jacqueline Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Sleep Tight
Rachel Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Slider
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Slightly Dangerous
Mary Balogh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Slightly Married
Mary Balogh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003