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Station Island
Station Island is a 1984 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, named after the Lough Derg pilgrimage site and centered on a Dante-inspired dream-vision of ghosts.
Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced steam and clockwork technology in Victorian or Wild West settings, coined by K. W. Jeter in 1987.
Stella Prize
The Stella Prize is an annual Australian literary award of $60,000 given to a single book by an Australian woman or non-binary writer, first awarded in 2013.
Stephen King short fiction bibliography
The Stephen King short fiction bibliography records the short stories and novellas of American author Stephen King, whose career spans teenage magazine appearances to works still being published.
Steppenwolf (novel)
Der Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse's 1927 novel (S. Fischer Verlag), follows nearly-fifty-year-old outsider Harry Haller through crisis, Hermine, and the Magic Theater; it became a 1960s countercultural classic and named the rock band Steppenwolf.
Steve Jobs (book)
Steve Jobs (2011) is Walter Isaacson's authorized Simon & Schuster biography of the Apple co-founder, based on 40+ interviews with Jobs and 100+ others; it sold about 3 million copies and drew the 2015 Apple-backed rebuttal Becoming Steve Jobs.
Sthree Hridayam
Sthree Hridayam (സ്ത്രീ ഹൃദയം, "Woman's Heart") is the title of several Malayalam works: a novel by S. Sreedevi, a book by poet Balamani Amma, and a 1960 film.
Stig of the Dump
Stig of the Dump is a 1963 children's novel by Clive King, in which a boy named Barney befriends a stone-age boy living in a chalk-pit dump.
Still I Rise
"Still I Rise" is a poem by Maya Angelou, first published in 1978 in her third collection, And Still I Rise, and built around the refrain "I rise."
Still Life (Winman novel)
Still Life is Sarah Winman's fourth novel (4th Estate, June 2021; Putnam, US, November 2021), following art historian Evelyn Skinner and soldier Ulysses Temper from 1944 Tuscany to postwar London and Florence and centered on the 1966 Arno flood and its Mud Angels.
Sto pociech
Sto pociech (A Hundred Consolations) is a 1967 poetry collection by the Polish poet and 1996 Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska, containing twenty-seven poems, including The Joy of Writing.
Stone Blind
Stone Blind (2022) by Natalie Haynes is a Medusa-centered retelling of the Perseus myth, published by Mantle, longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Not the Olivia Gaines novel of the same name.
Stone Yard Devotional
Stone Yard Devotional is Charlotte Wood's 2023 Allen & Unwin novel, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, about an unnamed atheist ex-environmentalist who retreats to a convent on the Monaro plains of New South Wales during the pandemic and a mouse plague.
Stoner (novel)
Stoner is a 1965 novel by John Williams about William Stoner, a farm-born English professor at the University of Missouri who died in 1956, and his quiet professional and personal setbacks.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost's 16-line lyric poem, written 1922, published March 7, 1923 in The New Republic and in the Pulitzer-winning collection New Hampshire; a traveler pauses to watch snow-filled woods, closing with "miles to go before I sleep."
Stories of the Sahara
Stories of the Sahara (撒哈拉的故事) is a 1976 collection of twelve essays by the Taiwanese writer Sanmao, describing her life in El Aaiún in the Spanish Sahara.
Story of Ahikar
The Story of Ahikar, also spelled Ahiqar, is an ancient Aramaic court tale and wisdom collection about a scribe of kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon betrayed by the nephew he raised.
Story of O
Story of O (Histoire d'O), 1954 French erotic novel by Dominique Aury under the pseudonym Pauline Réage, about a woman trained in submission at Roissy; adapted by Just Jaeckin in 1975 and central to feminist pornography debates.
Story of the Eye
Story of the Eye (Histoire de l'œil), 1928 erotic novella by Georges Bataille under the pseudonym Lord Auch; two lovers cross France and Spain; seized twice, condemned 1951, first published under his name in 1967.
Stotra
Stotra (स्तोत्र), also stotram, is a Sanskrit hymn of praise to a deity, from the root stu, "to praise". In the Sāmaveda it names the chants of the Soma sacrifice.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson's 1886 Gothic novella, follows lawyer Utterson investigating Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, the same man; hugely successful, endlessly adapted, public domain.
Strange Pictures
Strange Pictures (変な絵) is Uketsu's 2022 Japanese puzzle-horror novel, also called a sketch mystery, built around nine drawings; translated by Jim Rion (Pushkin Vertigo, 2025), it sold millions worldwide and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger.
Strange Tales
Strange Tales is a Marvel Comics anthology series (1951-1968, revived 1973-1976) that began as Atlas horror/sci-fi, featured giant monsters like Fin Fang Foom, and introduced Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; the name was later reused for indie-cartoonist anthologies in 2009-2010 and a 2025 series.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi) is a collection of nearly 500 classical Chinese short stories by the Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling (1640–1715).
Strangers in Paradise
Strangers in Paradise (SiP) is Terry Moore's comic book series (1993–2007) about Francine, Katchoo, and David, self-published via Abstract Studio after Antarctic Press, winner of Eisner and GLAAD awards.
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Belle Burden's 2026 Dial Press debut, expands her 2023 Modern Love essay about her husband James leaving after 20 years during the 2020 pandemic; a No. 1 bestseller whose financial narrative was later challenged by the New Yorker.
Straw Hats
Straw Hats (麦わらの一味, Straw Hat Pirates) are Monkey D. Luffy's ten-member crew in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, named for the straw hat from Shanks, sailing for the One Piece treasure with a Jolly Roger of a straw-hatted skull.
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!)
Strawberry Panic! (ストロベリー・パニック!) is a yuri media franchise from a 2003–2005 Dengeki G's reader project, spanning Kono Sakura's 3 light novels, a 2-volume manga, a 2006 Madhouse anime, and a 2006 PS2 game, set at an all-female Catholic school with an Etoile system; the anime, manga, and novels tell substantially different stories.
Stray Birds
Stray Birds (Bengali: ছোট পাখি) is a 1916 collection of 325 short aphoristic poems by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan and translated by Tagore himself.
Strolls with Pushkin
Strolls with Pushkin (Прогулки с Пушкиным) is an irreverent literary essay on Alexander Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky, written as Abram Tertz in a Soviet labor camp and published in 1975.