Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors S

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• Sa'adawi, Nawal el, Egyptian (Arabic), 1931- .
  • Memoirs from the Women's Prison. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Saadi of Shiraz, Sheikh, See Sadi
• Saba, Umberto, Italian, 1883-1957.
  • Stories and Recollections. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sachs, Nelly, German-Swedish writing in German, 1891-1970. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Sacks, Oliver, American, 1933-2015.
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Gurumukhi, 15th C.
  • Sacred Writings of the Sikhs. Recommended by: Ward
• Saddharma-Pundarika Sutra, See Lotus Sutra
• Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de, French, 1740-1814.
  • Justine. Recommended by: Smiley
  • Letters from Prison. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Sa'di, Musharrif ad-Din bin Muslih, Persian, ca. 1208-ca. 1292.
  • Bostan. Recommended by: Meaningful
  • Gulistan. Recommended by: Ward
• Saga of Burnt Njal, See Njal's Saga
• Sagan, Carl, American, 1934-1996.
  • Intelligent Life in the Universe. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Said, Edward, Palestinian writing in English, 1935-2003.
  • Culture and Imperialism. Recommended by: Utne
  • Orientalism. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Saikaku Ihara, Japanese, 1642-1693.
  • Novels (Selection, such as Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings). Recommended by: Oriental Ward
• Saki (H. H. Munro), Scottish, 1870-1916.
  • The Short Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Salih, Tayeb, Sudanese writing in Arabic, 1929-2009.
  • A Season of Migration to the North. Recommended by: Meaningful NYPL
• Salinas, Pedro, Spanish, 1891-1951.
  • My Voice Because of You: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Salinger, J. D., American, 1919-2010.
  • The Catcher in the Rye. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC Boston PL Burgess Harvard Hungry Mind LAT ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe Time
  • Nine Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Franny and Zooey. Recommended by: Harvard Radcliffe
• Salter, James, American, 1925-2015.
  • Solo Faces. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Light Years. Recommended by: Bloom
• Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Russian, 1826-1889.
  • The Golovlyov Familly. Recommended by: Ward
• Samuelson, Paul, American, 1915-2009.
  • Economics: An Introductory Analysis. Recommended by: TLS
• San Pedro, Diego de, Spanish, fl. 1500.
  • Prison of Love. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sand, George, French, 1804-1876.
  • The Haunted Pool. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sanger, Margaret, American, 1879-1966.
  • My Fight for Birth Control. Recommended by: NYPL
  • Happiness in Marriage. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 12th C BCE-14th C CE.
  • Sanskrit Lyric Poetry. Recommended by: Oriental
• Sansom, William, English, 1912-1976.
  • The Body. Recommended by: Burgess
• Santayana, George, Spanish-American, 1863-1952.
  • The Life of Reason. Recommended by: Adler
  • Skepticism and Animal Faith. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3
  • Persons and Places. Recommended by: Adler
  • Selected Other Works. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
• Sappho, Greek, 7th C BCE.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Collh91 Rex
• Saramago, José, Portuguese, 1922-2010. Nobel Laureate
  • Baltasar and Blimunda. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Blindness. Recommended by: Meaningful
• Sarashina, Lady, Japanese, 1008-ca. 1064.
  • As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. Recommended by: Ward
• Sarduy, Severo, Cuban, 1937-1993.
  • Maitreya. Recommended by: Bloom
• Saro-Wiwa, Ken, Nigerian writing in English, 1941-1995.
  • A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Sarraute, Nathalie, French, 1900-1999.
  • The Use of Speech. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Planetarium. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sarton, May, American, 1912-1995.
  • At Seventy. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
• Sartre, Jean Paul, French, 1905-1980. Nobel Laureate
  • War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-1940. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
  • Nausea. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Ward
  • No Exit. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
  • Being and Nothingness. Recommended by: Adler Boston PL NYPL Seymour-Smith
  • Saint Genet. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Words. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Existentialism and Humanism. Recommended by: TLS
• Sassoon, Siegfried, English, 1886-1967.
  • The War Poems. Recommended by: NYPL
  • Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Anonymous, Armenian, 11th-12th C traditions (first pub. 1874).
  • Sasuntsi Davith (Saga of Sassoun; Daredevils of Sassoun; Daredevils of Sassoun). Recommended by: Ward
• Saussure, Ferdinand de, Swiss writing in French, 1857-1913.
  • Course in General Linguistics. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Scève, Maurice, French, ca. 1510-ca. 1564.
  • Délie. Recommended by: Bloom
• Schama, Simon, English, 1945- .
  • Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Schelling, Thomas, American, 1921-2016.
  • The Strategy of Conflict. Recommended by: TLS
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, American, 1944- .
  • Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Schiffmann, Erich, American.
  • Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness. Recommended by: Utne
• Schiller, Friedrich von, German, 1759-1805.
  • Wilhelm Tell. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • The Robbers. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Mary Stuart. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Wallenstein. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Don Carlos. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • On the Naïve and Sentimental in Literature. Recommended by: Bloom
• Schlegel, Friedrich, German, 1772-1829.
  • Criticism and Aphorisms. Recommended by: Bloom
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., American, 1917-2007.
  • A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Recommended by: LAT
  • The Age of Jackson. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Schlosser, Eric, American, 1960- .
  • Fast Food Nation. Recommended by: Harvard
• Schmidt, Arno, German, 1914-1979.
  • The Egghead Republic. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Schnitzler, Arthur, Austrian, 1862-1931.
  • Plays and Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Scholem, Gershom, Israeli, 1897-1982.
  • The Messianic Idea in Judaism, and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality. Recommended by: TLS
  • Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, German, 1788-1860.
  • The World as Will and Idea. Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
  • Essays and Aphorisms. Recommended by: Ward
  • Studies in Pessimism. Recommended by: Adler
• Schott, Ben, English, 1974- .
  • Schott's Original Miscellany. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Schrödinger, Erwin, Austrian, 1887-1961.
  • What is Life?. Recommended by: GBWW
• Schulberg, Budd, American, 1914-2009.
  • The Disenchanted. Recommended by: Burgess
  • What Makes Sammy Run?. Recommended by: BOMC
• Schulz, Bruno, Polish, 1892-1942.
  • The Street of Crocodiles. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Recommended by: Bloom
• Schumacher, E. F. (Ernst), English, 1911-1977.
  • Small is Beautiful. Recommended by: NYPL TLS Utne
• Schumpeter, Joseph, Austrian-American writing in English, 1883-1950.
  • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Recommended by: National Review TLS
• Schuyler, James, American, 1923-1991.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Schwartz, Delmore, American, 1913-1966.
  • Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge. Recommended by: Bloom
• Schweitzer, Albert, German, 1875-1965.
  • Out of My Life and Thought. Recommended by: Ward
  • On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. Recommended by: Ward
  • More From the Primeval Forest. Recommended by: Ward
• Sciascia, Leonardo, Italian, 1921-1989.
  • Day of the Owl. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Equal Danger. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Wine-Dark Sea: Thirteen Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
• Scitovsky, Tibor, American, 1910-2002.
  • The Joyless Economy. Recommended by: TLS
• Scott, Paul, English, 1920-1978.
  • Staying On. Recommended by: Burgess
• Scott, Sir Walter, Scottish, 1771-1832.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Novels. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Waverley. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Heart of Midlothian. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Redgauntlet. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Old Mortality. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • The Bride of Lammermoor. Recommended by: Smiley
• Scully, Vincent, American, 1920-2017.
  • Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance. Recommended by: LAT
• Seferis, George, Greek, 1900-1971. Nobel Laureate
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sei Shonagon, Japanese, ca. 965-1035.
  • The Pillow Book. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans Fadiman 4 MW Asian Oriental Rexmo StJE Ward
• Seifert, Jaroslav, Czech, 1901-1986. Nobel Laureate
  • Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sen, Amartya, Indian writing in English, 1933- .
  • Resources, Values and Development. Recommended by: TLS
• Sena, Jorge de, Portuguese, 1919-1978.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sendak, Maurice, American, 1928-2012.
  • Where the Wild Things Are. Recommended by: Harvard LAT NYPL
• Seneca, Roman, ca. 4 BCE-65 CE .
  • Tragedies. Recommended by: Bloom (Selections)
  • Letters from a Stoic. Recommended by: Ward
  • Moral Essays. Recommended by: Ward
  • Works. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Senghor, Léopold S., Senegalese, 1906-2001.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Serge, Victor, Belgian, 1890-1947.
  • Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901-1941. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Seuss, Dr. (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American, 1904-1991.
  • The Cat in the Hat. Recommended by: NYPL
• Various Authors, Arab, 6th C?.
  • Seven Odes. Recommended by: Oriental Ward
• Sextus Empiricus, Greek, fl. ca. 190.
  • Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
• Shabtai, Yaakov, Israeli, 1934-1981.
  • Past Continuous. Recommended by: Bloom
• Shahar, David, Israeli, 1926-1997.
  • The Palace of Shattered Vessels. Recommended by: Bloom
• Shakespeare, William, English, 1564-1616.
  • Henry VIII. Recommended by: Harvard
  • Complete Works. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Seymour-Smith Ward
  • Richard II. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC
  • Henry IV, Part 1. Recommended by: Aquinas Col37 Col61 SJC
  • Henry IV, Part 2. Recommended by: Col37 SJC
  • As You Like It. Recommended by: SJC
  • Twelfth Night. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC
  • Hamlet. Recommended by: Aquinas Meaningful SJC
  • Othello. Recommended by: Aquinas Meaningful SJC
  • King Lear. Recommended by: Aquinas Col61 Collh91 Meaningful SJC
  • Macbeth. Recommended by: Aquinas Rex SJC
  • Antony and Cleopatra. Recommended by: Col61
  • Tempest. Recommended by: Aquinas Col61 Rex SJC
  • Sonnets. Recommended by: Aquinas SJC Telegraph
  • Julius Caesar. Recommended by: Aquinas
  • Coriolanus. Recommended by: Utne
• Traditional, Native American.
  • Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas (Compiled by Jerome Rothenberg). (See also Technicians of the Sacred) Recommended by: Ward
• Shantideva, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 7th/8th C.
  • Bodhicaryavatara. Recommended by: Oriental
• Shaw, George Bernard, Irish, 1856-1950. Nobel Laureate
  • Plays and Prefaces. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) Good Reading
  • Selected Plays and Prefaces. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Heartbreak House. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Man and Superman. Recommended by: Ward
  • Pygmalion. Recommended by: Bloom NYPL
  • Saint Joan. Recommended by: Bloom GBWW Ward
  • Major Barbara. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Back to Methuselah. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Major Critical Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sheehan, Neil, American, 1936- .
  • A Bright Shining Lie. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Sheldrake, Rupert, English, 1942- .
  • Seven Experiments That Could Change the World. Recommended by: Utne
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, English, 1797-1851.
  • Frankenstein. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley Telegraph
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, English, 1792-1822.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading
  • Defence of Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Shepard, Sam, American, 1943-2017.
  • Seven Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, Irish-English, 1751-1816.
  • The Critic. Recommended by: Lubbock
  • Plays. Recommended by: Ward
  • School for Scandal. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
  • Rivals. Recommended by: Bloom Lubbock
• Shi Naian, Chinese, 1296-1370.
  • Water Margin (Shui Hu Chuan; also known as All Men Are Brothers). Recommended by: Oriental Ward
• Various Authors, Chinese, 10th-8th C BCE.
  • Shijing (Shih Ching; Book of Songs). Recommended by: Lubbock MW Asian Ward
• Shilts, Randy, American, 1951-1994.
  • And the Band Played On. Recommended by: NYPL
• Shimazaki Toson, Japanese, 1872-1943.
  • The Broken Commandment. Recommended by: Ward
• Sholem Aleichem, Russian-American writing in Yiddish, 1859-1916.
  • Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Nightingale. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sholokhov, Mikhail, Russian, 1905-1984. Nobel Laureate
  • And Quiet Flows the Don. Recommended by: Smiley
• Shudraka, Indian writing in Sanskrit, ca. 400.
  • Little Clay Cart. (See also Great Sanskrit Plays in New English Transcreations) Recommended by: MW Asian Oriental
• Shute, Nevil, Australian, 1899-1960.
  • No Highway. Recommended by: Burgess
• Sidney, Sir Philip, English, 1554-1586.
  • Arcadia. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Astrophel and Stella. Recommended by: Bloom
  • An Apology for Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Polish, 1846-1916. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Sikelianos, Angelos, Greek, 1884-1951.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, American, 1948- .
  • Ceremony. Recommended by: Hungry Mind Utne
• Sillanpää, Frans Eemil, Finnish, 1888-1964. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Sillitoe, Alan, English, 1928-2010.
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Recommended by: Burgess
• Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien), Chinese, 145-86 BCE.
  • Records of the Grand Historian. Recommended by: Fadiman 4 MW Asian Oriental Rexmo StJE Ward
• Simic, Charles, American, 1938- .
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Simmel, Georg, German, 1858-1918.
  • The Philosophy of Money. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Simon, Claude, French, 1913-2005. Nobel Laureate
  • The Grass. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Wind. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Flanders Road. Recommended by: Bloom
• Simon, Herbert, American, 1916-2001.
  • Models of Man, Social and Rational. Recommended by: TLS
• Sinclair, Upton, American, 1878-1968.
  • The Jungle. Recommended by: Boston PL NYPL Radcliffe
• Singer, Charles, English, 1876-1960.
  • A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900. Recommended by: Ward
• Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Polish-American writing in Yiddish, 1904-1980. Nobel Laureate
  • Collected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom Hungry Mind
  • In My Father's Court. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Manor and The Estate. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Family Moskat. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • Satan in Goray. Recommended by: Bloom
• Singer, Israel Joshua, Polish-American writing in Yiddish, 1893-1944.
  • The Brothers Ashkenazi. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Yoshe Kalb. Recommended by: Bloom
• Sinuhe, Egyptian, Ancient, ca. 2000 BCE.
  • The Story of Sinuhe. Recommended by: Ward
• Anonymous Authors, Arab, 1080-1400.
  • Sirat 'Antar (Adventures of Antar). Recommended by: Ward
• Various Authors, American, 1901-2000.
  • Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (Ed. by Robin Morgan). Recommended by: NYPL
• Situationist International, Various, 1957-1972.
  • On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: Situationist International 1957-1972. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Skelton, John, English, ca. 1460-1529 .
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Skinner, B. F., American, 1904-1990.
  • Walden Two. Recommended by: NYPL
  • Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Recommended by: Boston PL LAT Seymour-Smith
• Skinner, Quentin, English, 1940- .
  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Recommended by: TLS
• Skvorecky, Josef, Czech, 1924-2012.
  • Cowards. Recommended by: Ward
  • Bass Saxophone. Recommended by: Ward
• Slater, Philip E., American, 1927-2013.
  • The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point. Recommended by: LAT
• Sloterdijk, Peter, German, 1947- .
  • Critique of Cynical Reason. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Smart, Christopher, English, 1722-1771.
  • Jubilate Agno. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Song to David. Recommended by: Bloom
• Smiles, Samuel, English, 1812-1904.
  • Self-Help. Recommended by: Lubbock
• Smith, Adam, Scottish, 1723-1790.
  • Theory of Moral Sentiments. Recommended by: Adler
  • Wealth of Nations. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Colcc91 (Selections) GBWW Good Reading Lubbock (Selections) Seymour-Smith SJC (Selections)
• Smith, Anna Deveare, American, 1950- .
  • Twilight, Los Angeles 1992. Recommended by: Utne
• Smith, Betty, American, 1896-1972.
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Recommended by: NYPL
• Smith, Delia, English, 1941- .
  • How to Cook. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Smith, Lillian, American, 1897-1966.
  • Strange Fruit. Recommended by: NYPL
• Smith, Margaret, English, 1884-1970.
  • Rabia the Mystic & Her Fellow Saints in Islam. Recommended by: Utne
• Smith, Page, American, 1917-1995.
  • A People's History of the United States. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
• Smith, Stevie, English, 1902-1971.
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Smith, Zadie, English, 1975- .
  • White Teeth. Recommended by: Smiley Time
• Surgeon General (U.S.), American, Pub. 1964 and 1979.
  • Smoking and Health (The Surgeon General's Report) (Pub. 1964). Recommended by: NYPL
  • Smoking and Health (Pub. 1979). Recommended by: Boston PL
• Smollett, Tobias, Scottish, 1721-1771.
  • Humphry Clinker. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
  • Roderick Random. Recommended by: Bloom
• Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic, 1178-1241.
  • Egil's Saga. Recommended by: Smiley
  • Heimskringla. Recommended by: Ward
  • Prose Edda. Recommended by: Bloom
• Snow, C. P., English, 1905-1980.
  • Strangers and Brothers (Cycle of 11 novels). Recommended by: Burgess
  • The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Recommended by: TLS
• Snyder, Gary, American, 1930- .
  • No Nature: New and Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Söderberg, Hjalmar, Swedish, 1869-1941.
  • Doctor Glas. Recommended by: Ward
  • Selected Short Stories. Recommended by: Ward
• Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan, 1946?.
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Recommended by: Utne
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich, Russian, 1918-2008. Nobel Laureate
  • The First Circle. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • Cancer Ward. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
  • The Gulag Archipelago. Recommended by: Bloom Boston PL National Review NYPL TLS
  • August 1914. Recommended by: Bloom
• Somadeva Bhatta, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 11th C.
  • Kathasaritsagara. Recommended by: Ward
• Song of Roland, See Chanson de Roland
• Various Authors, French, 12th C.
  • Songs of the Provencal Troubadors. Recommended by: Ward
• Sontag, Susan, American, 1933-2004.
  • On Photography. Recommended by: Harvard
• Sophocles, Greek, 496-406 BCE.
  • Tragedies. Recommended by: Adler GBWW Ward
  • Oedipus Rex. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Lubbock Meaningful Rex SJC
  • Oedipus at Colonus. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Rex SJC
  • Antigone. Recommended by: Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Rex SJC
  • Ajax. Recommended by: Bloom Col61
  • Philoctetes. Recommended by: Bloom Col61 SJC
  • Electra. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Women of Trachis. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone). Recommended by: Good Reading
• Sorel, Georges, French, 1847-1922.
  • Reflections on Violence. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Various Authors, Chinese, 10th C BCE-20th C CE.
  • Sources of Chinese Tradition. Recommended by: Ward
• Various Authors, Indian and Pakistani, 15th C BCE-20th C CE.
  • Sources of Indian Tradition. Recommended by: Ward
• Southern, Terry, American, 1924-1995.
  • The Magic Christian. Recommended by: BOMC
• Sowell, Thomas, American, 1930- .
  • Ethnic America. Recommended by: National Review
• Soyinka, Wole, Nigerian writing in English, 1934- . Nobel Laureate
  • A Dance of the Forest. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Aké. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Spark, Muriel, Scottish, 1918-2006.
  • The Girls of Slender Means. Recommended by: Burgess
  • The Mandelbaum Gate. Recommended by: Burgess
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Recommended by: ML Novels Time
  • Loitering with Intent. Recommended by: Smiley
  • The Ballad of Peckham Rye. Recommended by: Telegraph
• Spence, Jonathan, English, 1936- .
  • The Death of Woman Wang. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
• Spencer, Herbert, English, 1820-1903.
  • First Principles. Recommended by: Seymour-Smith
• Spengler, Oswald, German, 1880-1936.
  • The Decline of the West. Recommended by: Boston PL
• Spenser, Edmund, English, ca. 1552-1599 .
  • Prothalamion. Recommended by: Adler
  • Faërie Queen. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Lubbock
  • Minor Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Spicer, Jack, American, 1925-1965.
  • The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Ed. by Robin Blaser). Recommended by: LAT
• Spiegelman, Art, American, 1948- .
  • Maus: A Survivor's Tale. Recommended by: NYPL
• Spinoza, Baruch, Dutch writing in Latin, 1632-1677.
  • Ethics. Recommended by: Adler Col37 Col61 GBWW Good Reading Seymour-Smith Ward
  • Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Recommended by: Aquinas Lubbock SJC
• Spitteler, Carl, Swiss writing in German, 1845-1924. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Spock, Benjamin, American, 1903-1998.
  • The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Recommended by: Boston PL LAT NYPL
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 5th C (Chinese translation).
  • Srimaladevisim-hanada Sutra. Recommended by: Oriental
• Ssu-ma Ch'ien, See Sima Qian
• Stafford, Jean, American, 1915-1979.
  • The Mountain Lion. Recommended by: BOMC
• Stampa, Gaspara, Italian, ca. 1523-1554.
  • Sonnets and Madrigals. Recommended by: Bloom
• Stanislavski, Konstantin, Russian, 1863-1938.
  • An Actor Prepares. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Starhawk (Miriam Simos), American, 1951- .
  • The Fifth Sacred Thing. Recommended by: Utne
• Stark, Freya, English, 1893-1993.
  • The Journey's Echo. Recommended by: Utne
• Starr, Kenneth W., American, 1946- .
  • The Starr Report. Recommended by: National Review
• Stead, Christina, Australian, 1902-1983.
  • The Man Who Loved Children. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley Time
• Steele, Richard, See Joseph Addison
• Steffens, Lincoln, American, 1866-1936.
  • Autobiography. Recommended by: NYPL
  • The Shame of the Cities. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Stegner, Wallace, American, 1909-1993.
  • Angle of Repose. Recommended by: BOMC ML Novels
• Steichen, Edward, American, 1879-1973.
  • The Family of Man. Recommended by: LAT NYPL
• Stein, Gertrude, American, 1874-1946.
  • Three Lives. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Geographical History of America. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Making of Americans. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Tender Buttons. Recommended by: Bloom NYPL
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Recommended by: Hungry Mind ML Nonfiction Radcliffe
• Steinbeck, John, American, 1902-1968. Nobel Laureate
  • The Grapes of Wrath. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC Boston PL Hungry Mind ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe Time
  • Of Mice and Men. Recommended by: Radcliffe
• Stendhal, French, 1783-1842.
  • The Red and the Black. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Meaningful Rex Smiley Ward
  • The Charterhouse of Parma. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Good Reading Ward
  • On Love. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
• Stephenson, Neal, American, 1959- .
  • Snow Crash. Recommended by: Time
• Stern, Fritz, American, 1926-2016.
  • The Politics of Cultural Despair. Recommended by: TLS
• Sterne, Laurence, English, 1713-1768.
  • Tristram Shandy. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Harvard Meaningful Rex Smiley Ward
  • Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
• Stevens, Wallace, American, 1879-1955.
  • Poems. Recommended by: SJC Ward
  • Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Necessary Angel. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Opus Posthumous. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Palm at the End of the Mind. Recommended by: Bloom
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, Scottish, 1850-1894.
  • Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Kidnapped. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Treasure Island. Recommended by: Bloom Telegraph
  • The New Arabian Nights. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Master of Ballantrae. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Weir of Hermiston. Recommended by: Bloom
• Stickney, Trumbull, American, 1874-1904.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Stifter, Adalbert, Austrian, 1805-1868.
  • Indian Summer. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Tales. Recommended by: Bloom
• Stoker, Bram, Irish, 1847-1912.
  • Dracula. Recommended by: Bloom Harvard NYPL Smiley
• Stone, Robert, American, 1937-2015.
  • Dog Soldiers. Recommended by: Bloom Time
  • A Flag for Sunrise. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC
• Stoppard, Tom, English, 1937- .
  • Travesties. Recommended by: Bloom
• Storm, Thedor, German, 1817-1868.
  • Immensee. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Stowe, Hariet Beecher, American, 1811-1896.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin. Recommended by: Rexmo Smiley
• Strachey, Lytton, English, 1880-1932.
  • Eminent Victorians. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction Telegraph
• Strand, Mark, American, 1934-2014.
  • Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Continuous Life. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Dark Harbor. Recommended by: Bloom
• Strauss, Leo, German-American writing in English, 1899-1973.
  • Natural Right and History. Recommended by: TLS
• Strindberg, August, Swedish, 1849-1912.
  • Plays. Recommended by: Ward
  • To Damascus. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Miss Julie. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Father. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Dance of Death. Recommended by: Bloom
  • The Ghost Sonata. Recommended by: Bloom
  • A Dream Play. Recommended by: Bloom
• Strunk, William and E. B. White, American, 1869-1946 and 1899-1985.
  (See also White, E. B)
  • The Elements of Style. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction National Review
• Stumpf, Samuel, American, 1918-1998.
  • Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy. Recommended by: Good Reading
• Styron, William, American, 1925-2006.
  • The Long March. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Sophie's Choice. Recommended by: Burgess Hungry Mind ML Novels Radcliffe
  • Lie Down in Darkness. Recommended by: BOMC
  • Darkness Visible. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner. Recommended by: Time
• Su Dongpo (Su Tung-p'o; also known as Su Shih), Chinese, 1036-1101.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Ward
• Sudraka, See Shudraka
• Suetonius, Roman, ca. 69-ca. 150 CE.
  • Twelve Caesars. Recommended by: Telegraph Ward
• Sukhanov, N. N., Russian, 1882-1940.
  • The Russian Revolution, 1917. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 2nd C CE (Chinese translation).
  • Sukhavativyuha Sutra. Recommended by: Oriental
• Sully Prudhomme, French, 1839-1907. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.
• Sunset Books, American, First pub. 1933.
  • Sunset Western Garden Book (By the Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Sun-tzu (Sunzi), Chinese, ca. 450-380 BCE.
  • The Art of War. Recommended by: Fadiman 4
• Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, English, ca. 1517-1547 .
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Süskind, Patrick, German, 1949- .
  • Perfume. Recommended by: Harvard
• Suzuki, D. T., Japanese, 1870-1966.
  • Zen Buddhism. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
• Svevo, Italo, Italian, 1861-1928.
  • Confessions of Zeno. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful Smiley Ward
  • As a Man Grows Older. Recommended by: Bloom
• Swenson, May, American, 1919-1989.
  • New & Selected Things Taking Place. Recommended by: Bloom
  • In Other Words. Recommended by: Bloom
• Swift, Jonathan, Irish, 1667-1745.
  • Gulliver's Travels. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Col37 Col61 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Lubbock Meaningful Rexmo SJC Telegraph Ward
  • A Modest Proposal. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3
  • Meditations Upon a Broomstick. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
  • Resolutions When I Come to Be Old. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
  • A Tale of a Tub. Recommended by: Adler Bloom
  • Journal to Stella. Recommended by: Adler
  • Shorter Prose Works. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, English, 1837-1909.
  • Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
  • Letters. Recommended by: Bloom
• Synge, John Millington, Irish, 1871-1909.
  • Collected Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
• Szasz, Thomas, American, 1920-2012.
  • The Myth of Mental Illness. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Szymborska, Wislawa, Polish, 1923-2012. Nobel Laureate
  • Works.

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