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Sacred Hoops : Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (1995) - Phil Jackson (-) - Hugh Delehanty (-)  (Grade:C+)

Saddam: King of Terror (2002) - Con Coughlin (-)  (Grade:A)

The Sailor who Fell from the Grace with the Sea (1963) - Yukio Mishima (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:C)

'Salem's Lot (1975) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C)

Salvador (1983) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:C)

The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2010) - Matthew Beynon Rees (1967-)  (Grade:A-)

The Samurai (1980) - Shusaku Endo (3/27/1923 -9/29/1996)  (Grade:A)

The Sand Pebbles (1962) - Richard McKenna (1913-1964) (Grade:A+)

Sandman: a Jean Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler Investigation (1996) - J. [Joseph] Robert Janes (1935-) (Grade:B)

The Sands of Karakorum (1953) - James Ramsey Ullman (-) (Grade:A+)

Saracinesca (1887) - Francis Marion Crawford (8/02/1854-4/09/1909) (Grade:A+)

The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac (2015) - Sharma Shields (-) (Grade:B)

Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong (1988) - Gary Giddins (03/21/1948-)  (Grade:A+)

A Savage Place (1981) - Robert B. Parker (09/17/1932 -01/18/2010)  (Grade:A)

Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist (1991) - Roger B. Swain (02/05/1949-)  (Grade:A-)

The Scalpel and the Butterfly : The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection (2000) - Deborah Rudacille (-)  (Grade:C+)

Schindler's List (1982) - Thomas Keneally (-)  (Grade:A)

Scoop (1937) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:B+)

The Screwtape Letters (1943) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A+)

The Sculptress (1993) - Minette Walters (-)  (Grade:C+)

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (2003) - Nathaniel Philbrick (-)  (Grade:A)

The Sea Wolf (1904) - Jack London (1/12/1876 -11/22/1916)  (Grade:A-)

The Searchers (1954) - Alan Le May (-)  (Grade:A+)

Seasons In Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and 'the Worst Baseball Teams in History' - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers (1996) - Mike Shropshire (-)  (Grade:C-)

Second Treatise of Government (1689) - John Locke (08/29/1632 -10/28/1704)  (Grade:B+)

The Secret Agent (1907) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:B)

The Secret Garden (1911) - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)  (Grade:A)

The Secret History (1992) - Donna Tartt (12/23/1963 -)  (Grade:A-)

Secret Mission to Bangkok (1960) - Francis van Wyck Mason (11/11/1901-08/28/1978)  (Grade:B+)

Pure Heart: The thrilling life and emotional death of Secretariat (essay) (1990) - William Nack (2/04/1941-4/13/2018)  (Grade:A+)

Seeking Whom He May Devour (1999) - Fred Vargas (1957-)  (Grade:A)

Selected Poems of Edward Arlington Robinson () - Edwin Arlington Robinson (12/22/1869-04/05/1935)  (Grade:C+)

Selected Stories (1988) - Andre Dubus (1936-1999)  (Grade:A)

The Sentinel (1951) - Arthur C. Clarke (12/16/1917 -3/19/2008)  (Grade:A)

A Separate Peace (1960) - John Knowles (1926 -)  (Grade:C+)

Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895 -12/07/1985)  (Grade:B+)

Serpico (1973) - Peter Maas (6/27/1929 -8/23/21/2001)  (Grade:A)

The Set of Poe (story) (1598537067) - George Ade (2/09/1866-5/16/1944)  (Grade:B+)

The Setup Man (2014) - T. T. Monday (-)  (Grade:B)

Seven Days to the Sea: an Epic Novel of The Exodus (2006) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-)  (Grade:A-)

The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again (1992) - Robert L. Bartley (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Seven Sins of Memory : How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (2001) - Daniel L. Schacter (-)  (Grade:B)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (1974) - Nicholas Meyer (12/24/45 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Shack (2007) - William Paul Young (05/11/1955-)  (Grade:C)

The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America (1994) - Hugh Pearson (-)  (Grade:B)

The Shadow of the Wind (2001) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (09/25/1964-)  (Grade:B-)

Shakespeare's Language (2000) - Frank Kermode (11/29/1919 -08/17/2010)  (Grade:A-)

Shane (1949) - Jack Warner Schaefer (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Shape of Water (1994) - Andrea Camilleri (9/06/1925 -7/17/2019)  (Grade:A-)

Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (1998) - Bernard Cornwell (1944 -)  (Grade:A)

The Shawl (1989) - Cynthia Ozick (4/17/1928 -)  (Grade:B)

Shelley's Heart (1995) - Charles McCarry (1930-)  (Grade:A)

The Sheltering Sky (1949) - Paul Bowles (12/30/1910 -11/18/1999)  (Grade:D)

The Shepherd (1975) - Frederick Forsyth (08/25/1938 -6/09/2025)  (Grade:A)

The Shield of Achilles (2002) - Philip Bobbitt (07/22/1948 -)  (Grade:A-)

The Shining (1977) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:C-)

The Shipping News (1993) - E. Annie Proulx (8/22/1935 -)  (Grade:C-)

Shoeless Joe (1982) - W. P. Kinsella (5/25/1935 -9/16/2026) (Grade:A+)

Shooting War (2007) - Dan Goldman (11/05/1974-) - Anthony Lappe (-) (Grade:C-)

The Shootist (1975) - Glendon F. Swarthout (04/08/1918-09/23/1992)  (Grade:A+)

Shop Class as Soulcraft : An Inquiry into the Value of Work (2009) - Matthew B. Crawford ( -)  (Grade:A)

Shopgirl: A Novella (2000) - Steve Martin (1945-)  (Grade:C)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian : A Novel (2005) - Marina Lewycka (1946-)  (Grade:B+)

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) - Eric Newby (12/06/1919-10/20/2006)  (Grade:A+)

Shrek! (1990) - William Steig (11/14/1907 -10/03/2003)  (Grade:A)

A Shropshire Lad () - A. E. Housman (3/26/1859 -4/30/1936)  (Grade:B+)

Siberian Light (1997) - Robin White (-)  (Grade:B+)

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) - George Eliot (11/22/1819 -12/22/1880)  (Grade:A)

Silence of the Grave: A Reykjavik Thriller (2006) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A)

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President (1991) - Len Colodny (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Silent Man (2009) - Alex Berenson (-)  (Grade:A)

Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson (5/27/1907 -4/14/1964)  (Grade:F)

Silk (1996) - Alessandro Baricco (1/25/1958-)  (Grade:A+)

Silver: My Own Tale as Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder (2008) - Edward Chupack (-)  (Grade:B)

A Simple Plan (1993) - Scott Smith (-)  (Grade:C+)

Sins of the Assassin (2008) - Robert Ferrigno ( -)  (Grade:A)

The Sins of the Fathers (1976) - Lawrence Block (06/24/1938-)  (Grade:A-)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th Century) - Anonymous ( -)  (Grade:A+)

Sister Carrie (1900) - Theodore Dreiser (8/27/1871 -12/28/1945)  (Grade:F)

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello (6/28/1867 -12/10/1936)  (Grade:C+)

Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood (2009) - Marc Ebner (1959-)  (Grade:C+)

Six Degrees of Separation (1990) - John Guare (02/05/1938-)  (Grade:C)

The Skeleton's Knee: A Joe Gunther Mystery Novel (1993) - Archer Mayor (07/30/1950 -)  (Grade:B)

Skinwalkers (1986) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)  (Grade:A-)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut (11/11/1922 -4/11/2007)  (Grade:C)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:A+)

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002) - Howard Rheingold (-)  (Grade:B)

Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education (2001) - Jeffrey Peter Hart (1930 -)  (Grade:A-)

Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson (1956-)  (Grade:C-)

The Snow Goose (1941) - Paul Gallico (07/26/1897 -07/15/1976)  (Grade:A)

Snow in August (1997) - Pete Hamill (-)  (Grade:A)

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man (2014) - Luke Harding (April 21, 1968-)  (Grade:B)

The Social Contract (1762) - Jean Jacques Rousseau (6/28/1712 -7/02/1778)  (Grade:F)

Solaris (1961) - Stanislaw Herman Lem (09/21-22/1921 -03/27/2006)  (Grade:B+)

The Moon of Skulls (1930) - Robert Ervin Howard (01/22/1906-06/11/1936)  (Grade:A+)

Solomon vs. Lord (2005) - Paul Levine (-)  (Grade:A)

So Long, See You Tomorrow (1979) - William Maxwell (08/16/1908-07/31/2000)  (Grade:A-)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:A)

The Son of Laughter (1993) - Frederick Buechner (07/11/1926 -08/15/22)  (Grade:B)

The Song of Bernadette (1941) - Franz Werfel (1890-1945)  (Grade:A+)

Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik (2000) - Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934)  (Grade:A)

Sons and Lovers (1913) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930)  (Grade:D)

Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006)  (Grade:C)

The Sorrow of War (1991) - Bao Ninh (10/18/1952-)  (Grade:C)

The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999) - Victor Davis Hanson (9/05/1953 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Sound and the Fury (1929) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:F)

Sounder (1969) - William H. Armstrong (1914-1999)  (Grade:A)

The Sound of Waves [Shiosai] (1954) - Yukio Mishima (01/14/1925 -11/25/1970)  (Grade:A)

South Park Conservatives : The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias (2005) - Brian C. Anderson (1961 -)  (Grade:A)

The Sparrow (1996) - Mary Doria Russell (-)  (Grade:B+)

Spartacus (1951) - Howard Fast (11/11/1914 -03/12/2003)  (Grade:C+)

The Spartacus War (2009) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)  (Grade:A+)

Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited (1966) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A)

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001) - Walter Russell Mead ( -)  (Grade:B+)

The Speed Queen (1997) - Stewart O'Nan (-)  (Grade:A+)

Spies of the Balkans (2010) - Alan Furst (02/20/1941-)  (Grade:B)

The Spire (1964) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)  (Grade:C+)

The Spirit of St. Louis (1953) - Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) (Grade:A+)

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969) - Sam Greenlee (-) (Grade:C+)

The Sporting Genius of the English-Speaking Peoples (essay) (2022) - Rachel Lu ( -)  (Grade:A+)

The Sportswriter (1986) - Richard Ford (2/16/1944 -)  (Grade:C)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) - John Le Carré (10/19/1931 -12/12/2020 )  (Grade:A)

St. Petersburg (1913) - Andrey Bely (1880-1934)  (Grade:B)

Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel (1978) - William F. Buckley, Jr. (11/24/1925 -2/27/2008)  (Grade:A+)

The Star (story) (1955) - Arthur C. Clarke (12/16/1917 -3/19/2008)  (Grade:C)

The Stars My Destination (1956) - Alfred Bester (12/18/1913 -9/30/1987)  (Grade:A)

Starship Troopers (1959) - Robert A. Heinlein (07/07/1907 -1988)  (Grade:B+)

State of Fear (2004) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942 -11/04/2008)  (Grade:B-)

The Statement (1996) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)  (Grade:A)

Staying On (1977) - Paul Scott (3/25/1920 -3/01/1978)  (Grade:A-)

Steps (1968) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:D+)

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992) - Jon Scieszka (1954-)  (Grade:A)

The Stolen Child (2006) - Keith Donohue (-)  (Grade:B)

The Stone Raft (1986) - Jose Saramago (1922-)  (Grade:D+)

Stones from the River (1994) - Ursula Hegi (1946-)  (Grade:D)

Storied Stadiums : Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks (2001) - Curt Smith (-)  (Grade:C)

Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling () - Rudyard Kipling (12/30/1865 -1/18/1936)  (Grade:A+)

The Stories of John Cheever (1975) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:C+)

The Storm (1998) - Frederick Buechner (07/11/1926 -08/15/22)  (Grade:A)

The Story of John Henry () - Rabbit Ears Series (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) - C. Vann Woodward (11/13/1908 -12/17/1999)  (Grade:B)

Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2009) - Francis Wheen (01/22/1957-)  (Grade:B-)

The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2002) - H. W. Brands (08/07/1953 -)  (Grade:B-)

The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) - George Dangerfield (10/28/1904 -12/27/1986)  (Grade:A-)

Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Stranger (1946) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:C+)

Strangers on a Train (1950) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:A-)

Strike Three, You're Dead (1984) - Richard Dean Rosen (1949-)  (Grade:A)

Strip Cuts (2000) - David Drayer (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England (1992) - Eamon Duffy (1947 -)  (Grade:A)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) - Thomas S. Kuhn (7/18/1929 -6/17/1996)  (Grade:A)

Studs Lonigan [Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934),and Judgement Day (1935)] () - James T. Farrell (1904-1979)  (Grade:D)

Stupid Like a CEO (05/10/2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961 -)  (Grade:F)

Suez (1966) - Hugh Thomas (1931-)  (Grade:B+)

Sugartown : Amos Walker Mysteries (1984) - Loren D. Estleman (1952 -) (Grade:A+)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1998) - Edward John Larson (-)  (Grade:A+)

A Summons to Memphis (1986) - Peter Taylor (1917-1994)  (Grade:D+)

The Sun Also Rises (1926) - Ernest Hemingway (7/21/1899 -7/02/1961)  (Grade:C-)

The Sundial (1956) - Shirley Jackson (12/14/1916 -8/08/1965)  (Grade:B-)

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (1969) - Simon Wiesenthal (12/31/1908-9/20/2005)  (Grade:B+)

Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels (November 1940/March 1943) - John Grange (-)  (Grade:C)

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-)  (Grade:A-)

Surprised by Joy : The Shape of My Early Life (1955) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A)

Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967) - Stanley Eugene Fish (4/19/1938 -)  (Grade:B)

Surviving Galeras (2001) - Stanley Williams (1952-) - Fen Montaigne (1952-)  (Grade:B-)

Swag (1976) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:A)

Swann's Way (1913) - Marcel Proust (07/10/1871 -11/18/1922)  (Grade:D+)

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis : A Novella (1996) - Will Self (9/26/1961 -)  (Grade:B)

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom () - Peter Guralnick ( -)  (Grade:A+)

The Swimmer (1964) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:B-)

The Swiss Family Robinson or Adventures on a Desert Island (1814) - Johann David Wyss (5/28/1743 -1/11/1818)  (Grade:B-)

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969) - William Steig (11/14/1907 -10/03/2003)  (Grade:A)