Great Books – S

Sabbath’s Theater (Philip Roth)
Sacred Hunger (Barry Unsworth) (2 in series)
Saga of the Volsungs ()
Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)
Saints’ Everlasting Rest (Richard Baxter)
Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward) (3 in series)
Samson Agonistes (John Milton)
Samuel Johnson (Walter Jackson Bate)
Saville (David Storey)
Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Mark Noll)
Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Scarlet Sister Mary (Julia Peterkin)
Sceptical Chymist (Robert Boyle)
Scepticism and Animal Faith (George Santayana)
Schindler’s Ark (Thomas Keneally)
School for Wives (trans. Richard Wilbur) (Moliere)
Science of God? (Austin Farrer)
Science and Hypothesis (Jules Henri Poincare)
Science of Logic (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Science and Method (Jules Henri Poincare)
Science and the Modern World (Alfred North Whitehead)
Science of Right (Immanuel Kant)
Scientific Autobiography (Max Planck)
Scientists Against Time (James Phinney Baxter III)
Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
Sea (John Banville)
Sea Around Us (Rachel Carson)
Sea, The Sea (Iris Murdoch)
Seagull (Anton Chekhov)
Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud)
Second Coming (Walker Percy)
Second Sex (Simone de Beauvois) (2 in series)
Second World War (Winston Churchill) (6 in series)
Sellout (Paul Beatty)
Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Laurence Sterne)
Serious Call to the Devout and Holy Life, the Spirit of Love (William Law)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (T. E. Lawrence)
Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph (Sheldon Vanauken)
Shadow Country (Peter Matthiessen) (3 in series)
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Abolqasem Ferdowsi)
Ship Fever and Other Stories (Andrea Barrett)
Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
Short History of the United States (Edward Channing) (2 in series)
Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)
Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Soren Kierkegaard)
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Sidereal Messenger (Galileo Galilei)
Significance of Sections in American History (Frederick J. Turner)
Silence (Shusaku Endo)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters (N. T. Wright)
Sit, Walk, Stand (Watchman Nee)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
Six Enneads (Plotinus)
Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Elizabeth Kolbert)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
Slaves in the Family (Edward Ball)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
Snow Leopard (Peter Matthiessen)
So Big (Edna Ferber)
So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (René Jules Dubos)
So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell)
Social Contract (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Paul Starr)
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (John Locke)
Something to Answer For (P. H. Newby)
Something Beautiful for God (Malcolm Muggeridge)
Son of the Middle Border (Hamlin Garland) (2 in series)
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (Linnie Marsh Wolfe)
Sontag: Her Life and Work (Benjamin Moser)
Song of Roland ()
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sophie’s Choice (William Styron)
Sorrows of the Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
Souls of Black Folk (W. E. B. Du Bois)
Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
Spartina (John Casey)
Spectator Bird (Wallace Stegner)
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives (Dallas Willard)
Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu)
Spirit of St. Louis (Charles A. Lindbergh)
Spiritual Exercises (Ignatius of Loyola)
Sportswriter (Richard Ford) (4 in series)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
Stand (Stephen King)
State and Revolution (Vladimir Lenin)
Stature of Waiting (W. H. Vanstone)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steps (Jerzy Kosinski)
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Barbara W. Tuchman)
Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith (David Bentley Hart)
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (St. Therese de Lisieux)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Stranger (Albert Camus)
Strangers in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
Strength to Love (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (Eamon Duffy)
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Study of History (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) (9 in series) YouTube
Subjection of Women (John Stuart Mill)
Summa Contra Gentiles (Thomas Aquinas) (4 in series)
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas) (5 in series)
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Edward J. Larson)
Summons to Memphis (Peter Taylor)
Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
Supreme Court in United States History (Charles Warren) (3 in series)
Surprised by Joy (C. S. Lewis)
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America (W. Caleb McDaniel)
Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
Symposium (Plato)
System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation (John Stuart Mill)

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