by Pamela Paul
Sandburg, Carl
Sandel, Michael
Sandford, John
Sanditz, Lisa
Sandman comics
Sapper
Sappho
Saramago, José
Sarton, May
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saturday (McEwan)
Satyricon (Petronius)
Saunders, George
Savage, Dan
Savage Detectives, The (Bolaño)
Save the Cat! (Snyder)
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Saylor, Steven (Aaron Travis)
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne)
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (Orczy and Orczy)
Scarry, Richard
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schroth, Raymond A.
Schuhl, Jean-Jacques
Schulz, Kathryn
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Schwarzkopf, Norm
Science of Life, The (Wells, Wells, and Huxley)
Scoop (Waugh)
Scott, Paul
Sea Creatures (Daniel)
Sea of Fertility (Mishima)
Sebald, W. G.
Secret Garden, The (Burnett)
Secrets of the Flesh (Thurman)
Sedaris, Amy
Sedaris, David
Sedley, Stephen
Seek (Johnson)
Sendak, Maurice
Sense and Sensibility (film)
Sentences, The (Lombard)
Sethi, Aman
Seuss, Dr.
Seven Storey Mountain, The (Merton)
Sevigny, Chloë
Sewell, Anna
Sewing Circles of Herat, The (Lamb)
Sexton, Anne
Shahnameh (Ferdowsi)
Shakespeare (Bryson)
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare in Love (film)
Shards of Space (Sheckley)
Sheckley, Robert
Sheehan, Susan
Sherman, Cindy
Shiga, Jason
Shikasta (Lessing)
Shipping News, The (Proulx)
Shirer, William
Short Guide to a Happy Life, A (Quindlen)
Shteyngart, Gary
Siems, Larry
Signature of All Things, The (Gilbert)
Silas Marner (Eliot)
Silence (Endo)
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Silverman, Herb
Silver Snaffles (Cumming)
Silverstein, Shel
Sim, Dave
Simenon, Georges
Simic, Charles
Simmons, Bill
Simon, David
Simonson, Helen
Simpson, Mona
Sinclair, Iain
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Sisters Brothers, The (deWitt)
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Sjowall, Maj
Skidelsky, Robert
Skull of the Waltzing Clown, The (Keeler)
Skylark (Kosztolanyi)
Slavery by Another Name (Blackmon)
Sleeping Through the Night (Mindell)
Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, The (Barthelme)
Slow Lightning (Corral)
Smiley, Jane
Smith, Elliott
Smith, Patti
Smith, Zadie
Smithsonian Book of Books, The
Sneetches, The (Seuss)
Snicket, Lemony
Sobel, Dava
Sobol, Donald
Social Network, The (film)
Soiled Doves (Seagraves)
Solitude and Solidarity (Camus)
Solomon, Andrew
Solomon, Peter
Some Like It Hot (film)
Sondheim, Stephen
Song of Achilles, The (Miller)
Sophocles
Sorcerer’s House, The (Wolfe)
Sorokin, Vladimir
Sorrentino, Gilbert
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe)
Sort of Life, A (Greene)
Sotomayor, Sonia
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner)
South Park (TV show)
Spark, Muriel
Speak, Memory (Nabokov)
Spider-Man comics
Spillane, Mickey
Spilt Milk (Buarque)
Spirit, The (Eisner)
Sporting Club, The (McGuane)
Sports Gene, The (Epstein)
Spufford, Francis
Stalker (film)
Stanford White’s New York
Starlin, Jim
Starr, Kevin
Stasiland (Funder)
State of Wonder (Patchett)
Stay Up with Me (Barbash)
Stead, Christina
Steaming to Bamboola (Buckley)
Steig, William
Stein, Ellin
Steinbeck, John
Stendhal
Steps (Kosinski)
Stern, Jessica
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stewart, David O.
Stewart, James B.
Stewart, Martha
Stewart, Rory
Sting
Stockman, David
Stoker, Bram
Stone, Robert
Stone, Roger
Stories Not for the Nervous (Hitchcock)
Story of Ferdinand, The (Leaf)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strand, Mark
Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris, The (Garfield)
Strange Eventful History, A (Holroyd)
Strange Rebels (Caryl)
Stranger’s Child, The (Hollinghurst)
Strayed, Cheryl
Streatfeild, Noel
Street Without Joy (Fall)
Streisand, Barbra
Stroud, Rick
Strout, Elizabeth
Stuart Little (White)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Boylan)
Studies on Hysteria (Freud)
Stumbling on Wins (Berri)
Stupids, The (Marshall)
Sturges, P. G.
Styron, William
Suitors (David-Weill)
Sullivan, J. Courtney
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Summer of 1787, The (Stewart)
Sunset Boulevard (film)
Swamplandia (Russell)
Swann’s Way (Proust)
Sweeney, Jon M.
Sweet Tooth (McEwan)
Swerve, The (Greenblatt)
Swift, Jonathan
Tabucchi, Antonio
Taipei (Lin)
Taking Charge (Beschloss)
Talbot, Bryan and Mary
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens)
Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
Tan, Amy
Tanizaki, Junichiro
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Tartt, Donna
Taylor, Charles
Taylor, Jill Bolte
Team of Rivals (Goodwin)
Teems, David
Telex from Cuba (Kushner)
Telling Stories
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Tenth of December (Saunders)
Teorema (Pasolina)
Thatcher, Margaret
That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick (Stein)
Thayil, Jeet
Theory of Justice, A (Rawls)
There’s No Place Like Space (Rabe)
Theroux, Paul
Things They Carried, The (O’Brien)
Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
Third Policeman, The (O’Brien)
This Is How You Lose Her (Díaz)
This Kind of War (Fehrenbach)
This Living Hand (Morris)
Thomas, Abigail
Thomas, Keith
Thomas, Marlo
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (Hitchens)
Thompson, Emma
Thompson, Hunter
Thomson, J. Anderson
Thoreau
, Henry David
Thousand Clowns, A (film)
Thousand Pardons, A (Dee)
Three Case Histories (Freud)
Three Days Before the Shooting (Ellison)
Three Dog Life, A (Thomas)
365 Stories
Three Years (Chekhov)
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll)
Thucydides
Thurman, Judith
Tiger’s Wife, The (Obreht)
Tiger, Tiger (Fragoso)
Tiger Who Came to Tea, The (Kerr)
Tillyard, Stella
Time to Kill, A (Grisham)
Tintin books (Hergé)
Tipping Point, The (Gladwell)
Tiptree, James, Jr.
Tobacco Road (Caldwell)
To End All Wars (Hochschild)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Toland, John
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomallin, Claire
Tom Douglas’ Seattle Kitchen
Tom Sawyer (Twain)
Tom Swift books (Appleton)
Toole, John Kennedy
Torah
Torture Report, The (Siems)
Totem and Taboo (Freud)
Tourist Season (Hiaason)
Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier)
Tower, Wells
Towers of Trebizond, The (Macaulay)
Townsend-Warner, Sylvia
Townshend, Pete
Train Dreams (Johnson)
TransAtlantic (McCann)
Traveling Mercies (Lamott)
Travels with Charley (Steinbeck)
Travers, P. L.
Treasure Hunters (Patterson)
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (Smith)
Trevor, William
Trial of Queen Caroline, The (Robins)
Tripods Trilogy (Christopher)
Tristram Shandy (Sterne)
Triumph of Politics, The (Stockman)
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
Trollope, Anthony
Trollope, Frances
Trumbo, Dalton
Turn of the Screw, The (James)
Turow, Scott
Turtle Diary (Hoban)
Twain, Mark
Twelve Years a Slave (Northup)
21st Century Foss
2666 (Bolaño)
Twilight series (Meyer)
Two Cheers for Democracy (Forster)
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (Oates)
Tynan, Kenneth
Typical American (Jen)
Tyrannicide Brief, The (Robertson)
Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Ugly American, The (Lederer and Burdick)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Unapologetic (Spufford)
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
“Under the Window: Ouro Preto” (Bishop)
Unexpected Light, An (Elliot)
Unhinged (Carlat)
United States (Vidal)
Universe in a Nutshell, The (Hawking)
Unmaking of a Mayor, The (Buckley)
Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly)
Unquiet Mind, An (Jamison)
Unwerth, Ellen von
Updegrove, Mark
Updike, John
U.S. Constitution
Uses of the University, The (Kerr)
Valdivia, Pedro de
Vanishing Point, The (McDermid)
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams)
Vendler, Helen
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The (Carle)
Vidal, Gore
Villon, François
Vollmann, William T.
Volokhonsky, Larissa
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The (Lewis)
Wages of Wins, The (Berri)
Wagner, Richard
Wahloo, Per
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Walden (Thoreau)
Waldman, Ayelet
Wallace, David Foster
Walls, Jeannette
Walser, Robert
Walsh, Mikey
Walter, Jess
Wanderers, The (Price)
Wang Anyi
Waplington, Nick
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Ware, Chris
Warlock (Starlin)
Warner, Alan
War of the End of the World, The (Vargas Llosa)
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington, George
Wasik, Bill
Watchmen (Moore and Gibbons)
Waters, Sarah
Watkins, Claire Vaye
Watson, James
Watts, Alan
Waugh, Auberon
Waugh, Evelyn
Wave (Deraniyagala)
Ways of Going Home (Zambra)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Fowler)
Weber, Caroline
Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and Broom Handle (Sandburg)
Wedgwood, C. V.
Weights and Measures (Roth)
Weingarten, Gene
Weir, Alison
Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The (Garner)
Welch, Denton
Welch, Ronald
Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut)
Wells, G. P.
Wells, H. G.
Wells, Robin
Welty, Eudora
Weschler, Lawrence
Wesley, Mary
West, Morris
West, Rebecca
West of Kabul, East of New York (Ansary)
Wharton, Edith
What It Is Like to Go to War (Marlantes)
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction (Kincaid)
What the Dog Saw (Gladwell)
What the Gospels Meant (Wills)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Englander)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Carver)
When God Talks Back (Luhrmann)
When the Shooting Stops … the Cutting Begins (Rosenblum)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Semple)
Where the Leopard Passes (Elliott)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein)
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)
Whitaker, Robert
White, E. B.
White, Edmund
White, Neil
White Fang (London)
White Girls (Als)
White Rajah, The (Monsarrat)
Whitman, Walt
Why We Believe in God(s) (Thomson)
Widow Barnaby, The (Trollope)
Widow for One Year, A (Irving)
Wild (Strayed)
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Billy
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Willans, Geoffrey
Willett, Jincy
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, Tod
Wills, Garry
Wilsey, Sean
Wilson, Edward O.
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame)
Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The (Murakami)
Wingerd, Mary
Winnicott, Donald
Winnicott, D. W.
Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne)
Winslow, Don
Winston Churchill (Keegan)
Wisdom of Insecurity, The (Watts)
Wisdom of Life, The (Schopenhauer)
Wiseman, Frederick
Without Feathers (Allen)
Witness to the Truth (Hamilton)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wives of Henry VII, The (Fraser)
Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin)
Wizard of Oz, The (Baum)
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolfe, Gene
Wolfe, Tom
Wolff, Geoffrey
Wolff, Tobias
Wolf Hall (Mantel)
Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The (Aiken)
Woman at War (Maraini)
Woman in White, The (Collins)
Woman of Substance, A (Bradford)
Woman Warrior, The (Kingston)
Women in Love (Lawrence)
Wonderful Adventures of Nils and the Wild Geese, The (Laberlof)
Wood, Maryrose
Woodrow Wilson (Baker)
Woolf, Virginia
Wooten, James
World According to Garp, The (Irving)
World as Will and Representation, The (Schopenhauer)
World Book Encyclopedia
Worm Ouroboros, The (Eddison)
Wouk, Herman
Wright, James
Wright, Richard
Wrinkle in Time, A (L’Engle)
Writer at War, A (Grossman)
Writing the Blockbuster Novel (Zuckerman)
Wyndham, John
Xenophon
Yacoubian Building, The (Al Aswanny)
Yan Geling
Yearling, The (Rawlings)
Year of Days, A (Browning)
Yeats, William Butler
Yehoshua, A. B.
Yellow Birds, The (Powers)
Yezierska, Anzia
Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The (Chabon)
Yoshimura, Akira
You Are Not a Gadget (Lanier)
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Schulz)
Zambra, Alejandro
Zander, Bianca
Zelazny, Roger
Zeldin, Theodore
Zhang Jie
Zola, Émile
Zona (Dyer)
Zuckerman, Albert
Zweibel, Alan
About the Editor
PAMELA PAUL is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the author of Parenting, Inc., Pornified, and The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony. Prior to joining the Times, Paul was a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Vogue. She and her family live in New York.
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