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The Strange House (変な家) (manga)
The Strange House (変な家, Hen na Ie) is a horror-mystery manga by Kyo Ayano adapting Uketsu's 2020 Omocoro real-estate mystery about a house with an anomalous floor plan; serialized on comic HOWL from June 2023, with a 2024 film adaptation and Seven Seas English edition.
The Stranger (Camus novel)
The Stranger (L'Étranger, The Outsider) is Albert Camus's 1942 Gallimard novel about Meursault, an emotionally detached French Algerian condemned for killing an unnamed Arab; famous for Sartre's absurd reading, translations, and Daoud's response.
The Street Lawyer
The Street Lawyer is John Grisham's 1998 Doubleday legal thriller, his ninth novel, in which Washington antitrust lawyer Michael Brock, held hostage by a homeless gunman, quits Drake & Sweeney to fight a wrongful eviction.
The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles is the English title of Sklepy cynamonowe (Cinnamon Shops), a 1933 collection of linked stories by the Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, translated into English in 1963.
The Street Without Sun
The Street Without Sun (太陽のない街) is a 1929 proletarian novel by Tokunaga Sunao dramatizing the 1926 Kyodo Printing strike in Tokyo, a landmark of Japanese proletarian literature.
The Strength of the Few
The Strength of the Few (2025) is the second Hierarchy novel by Australian author James Islington, sequel to The Will of the Many. Vis Telimus is split into three selves across Res, Obiteum, and Luceum; published by Saga Press, a New York Times bestseller.
The Striders
The Striders is the first collection of poetry in English by Indian poet A.K. Ramanujan, published by Oxford University Press, London, in 1966 and known for its striking imagery.
The String of Light
The String of Light (Struna światła) is the debut poetry collection of the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, published by Czytelnik in Warsaw in 1956 and later seen as a key postwar debut.
The String of Pearls
The String of Pearls: A Romance, a Victorian penny blood serialized in Edward Lloyd's People's Periodical (1846-47), commonly attributed to James Malcolm Rymer; it originated Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and his victims-turned-meat-pies plot.
The Strongest Job Is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional)!
Japanese isekai series (最強の職業は勇者でも賢者でもなく鑑定士（仮）らしいですよ？) by Atekichi: web-novel-turned light novel on AlphaPolis, 1 million copies, 12-episode 2026 anime by Studio Flad, SUNSOFT spin-off game.
The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human
The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was a Human is a Japanese light novel web series begun in 2016, adapted into a 12-episode anime in 2024.
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women is an 1869 essay by John Stuart Mill, written with ideas from Harriet Taylor Mill, arguing that women's legal subordination is wrong and should be replaced by perfect equality.
The Subtle Knife
The Subtle Knife (1997) is Philip Pullman's second His Dark Materials novel, introducing Will Parry and the knife that cuts windows between worlds, set in Cittàgazze, ending on a cliffhanger, adapted in the BBC series.
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha) is a grotesque novella by the Czech writer and philosopher Ladislav Klíma, published in May 1928, a month after his death.
The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears (La somme de toutes les peurs) is Tom Clancy's 1991 techno-thriller, sixth Jack Ryan novel: terrorists detonate a rebuilt lost Israeli bomb at the Denver Super Bowl to trigger US-Soviet war; loosely adapted in a 2002 Ben Affleck film.
The Summer Book
The Summer Book (Sommarboken) is a 1972 novel by Tove Jansson about a grandmother and her six-year-old granddaughter spending summer on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland.
The Summer Day
"The Summer Day" is a nineteen-line poem by Mary Oliver, first published in her 1990 collection House of Light and known for its closing question about one's "wild and precious life".
The Summer I Turned Pretty (trilogy)
The Summer I Turned Pretty is Jenny Han's YA romance trilogy (2009–2011) about Belly Conklin's love triangle with brothers Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher at Cousins Beach, adapted into a hit Prime Video series (2022–2025) with a concluding film announced.
The Summer of the Lord
The Summer of the Lord («Лето Господне») is an epic work of Orthodox childhood by the Russian émigré writer Ivan Shmelyov, written from the late 1920s and completed in 1945.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta in the 1927 British edition) is Ernest Hemingway's 1926 first major novel about Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, and expatriates in Paris and Pamplona, defining the Lost Generation.
The Sun of the Dead
The Sun of the Dead (Солнце мёртвых) is an epic prose work by Russian writer Ivan Shmelev, written in France in 1922, depicting the red terror and famine in Crimea.
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River (太阳照在桑干河上) is a 1948 novel by Ding Ling depicting land reform in the north China village of Nuanshuitun, winning the 1951 Stalin Literature Prize.
The Sunlit Man
The Sunlit Man is a standalone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, fourth of his four Secret Projects, following the world-hopping fugitive Nomad on the sun-scorched planet Canticle.
The Suns of Independence
The Suns of Independence (Les Soleils des indépendances) is the 1968 first novel of Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma, following Fama, a fallen Malinké prince, after his country's independence.
The Superior Foes of Spider-Man
The Superior Foes of Spider-Man is a Marvel Comics series (2013–2014), written by Nick Spencer and drawn by Steve Lieber, following low-tier Spider-Man villains led by Boomerang.
The Superior Spider-Man
The Superior Spider-Man is a Marvel Comics series in which Doctor Octopus swaps minds with Peter Parker and becomes Spider-Man. The 2013–2014 Dan Slott run (34 issues, Marvel Now!) was revived in 2019 and again in 2023 for its tenth anniversary with artist Mark Bagley.
The Surgery Room
The Surgery Room (Japanese: Gekashitsu) is an 1895 short story by Izumi Kyōka, published in Bungei kurabu, in which a countess refuses anesthesia to guard a nine-year-old secret.
The Sweet Hereafter (film)
The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama directed by Atom Egoyan, about a lawyer who arrives in a town grieving a school bus crash that killed 14 children.
The Swimmer (short story)
"The Swimmer" is John Cheever's 1964 New Yorker short story in which Neddy Merrill swims home eight miles through suburban pools as seasons and his life collapse; collected in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow and adapted into the 1968 Burt Lancaster film.
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson (Der Schweizerische Robinson), 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss, edited by his son Johann Rudolf; shipwrecked Swiss family settles an island; most English editions follow Montolieu's 1824 expansion.