Safety of War (2004)
by Rob Benvie

Saint Morrissey (2004)
by Mark Simpson

Saturday (2005)
by Ian McEwan

Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands (2001)
by Bill Streever

Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises (2004)
by Miles Marshall Lewis

Scenes From a Long Sleep: New & Collected Poems (2003)
by Peter Didsbury

Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley's Jewish Roots (2002)
by Jonathan Goldstein and Max Wallace

The School of Beauty and Charm (2001)
by Melanie Sumner

The School of Night (2004)
by Anne Rouse

The Schooling of Claybird Catts (2004)
by Janis Owens

Science or Psuedoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies (2001)
by Henry H. Bauer

Screening Party (2002)
by Dennis Hensley

The Sea (2005)
by John Banville

Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead (2005)
by Phil Lesh

The Season of Lillian Dawes (2002)
by Katherine Mosby

A Secret Burial (2003)
by Penelope Sell

The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (2004)
by Trevor Corson

Secret Space: The Art of Fetish Photography (2001)
by John Gillan

Seek: Reports From The Edges of America & Beyond (2001) [review #1] [review #2]
by Denis Johnson

Seeking Salamanca Mitchell (2004)
by Kenji Jasper

Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them (2005)
by Sandra K. Dolby

Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks (2001)
by Greg Bottoms

Set This House in Order (2002)
by Matt Ruff

72dpi-Anime (2001)
by Robert Klanten, Hendrik Helige, and Birga Meyer

78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might (2005)
by Pat Walsh

Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia (2004)
by John Gilmore

Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan (2002)
by Christina Lamb

Sewing Shut My Eyes (2001)
by Lance Olsen (computer visuals by Andi Olsen)

The Shadow of the Wind (2005)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Shakey: Neil Young's Biography (2002)
by Jimmy McDonough

She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (2002)
by Lucy O'Brien

A Ship Made of Paper (2004)
by Scott Spencer

Shooting from the Hip: Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America (2005)
by Patricia Vettel-Becker

Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood, and the Movies (2003)
by Harry Shapiro

A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
by Bill Bryson

Shutter Island (2003)
by Dennis Lehane

72dpi-Anime (2003)
by Robert Klanten, Hendrik Helige, and Birga Meyer

Sign After the X ____ (2001)
by Marina Roy

The Silence Living in Houses (2005)
by Esther Morgan

Simulacrum America: The USA and the Popular Media (2000)
by Elisabeth Kraus, Carolin Auer and Warren Maurer

Since the Layoffs (2003)
by Iain Levison

Since You Ask (2004)
by Louise Wareham

The Singular Objects of Architecture (2003)
by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel

The Sinister Pig (2003)
by Tony Hillerman

Sitting Shiva (2002)
by Elliot Feldman

Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic & Other Satisfactions (2000)
by Michael Hicks

Skels (2004)
by Maggie Dubris

The Skin of the Sky (2004)
by Elena Poniatowska

Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America (2002)
by Dan Savage

The Sleeping Father (2003)
by Matthew Sharpe

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance (2005)
by Matthew Kneale

Small Town (2003)
by Lawrence Block

The Smallest Color (2001)
by Bill Roorbach

Snobbery: The American Version (2002)
by Joseph Epstein

The Snow Train (2001)
by Joseph Cummins

Snow White and Russian Red (2005)
by Dorota Maslowska

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004)
by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan

So What! The Good, The Mad, and The Ugly (2004)
by Steffan Chirazi

So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life (2004)
by Jacob Slichter

The Society of Others (2005)
by William Nicholson

A Soldier of the Revolution (2002)
by Ward Just

Some Assembly Required (2001)
by George Bradley

Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships (2004)
by Emily Bernard

Somehow Form A Family (Stories That Are Mostly True) (2001)
by Tony Earley

Something for Nothing: Luck in America (2003)
by Jackson Lears

Something for the Ghosts (2002)
by David Constantine

Something to Declare (2002)
by Julian Barnes

The Song of the Earth (2001)
by Hugh Nissenson

Songbook (2002)
by Nick Hornby

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (2003)
by Ian Christe

Speech! Speech! (2000)
by Geoffrey Hill

Spider-Man Confidential: From Comic Icon to Hollywood Hero (2002)
by Edward Gross

Spike Lee: Interviews (2002)
by Cynthia Fuchs

The Spirit of Family (2002)
by Al and Tipper Gore

Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror (2004)
by Daniel O'Brien

Spy's Fate (2002)
by Arnaldo Correa

Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares (2003)
by Kirstin Ohlson

Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip-Hop Culture (2004)
by Yvonne Bynoe

Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (2003)
by Anna Funder

Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (2002)
by Neil Astley

Steal This Book (2002)
by Abbie Hoffman

Steven Soderbergh Interviews (2002)
by Anthony Kaufman

A Stone Bridge North (2002)
by Kate Maloy

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
by Chuck Palahniuk

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (2004)
by Graham Robb

Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight (2003)
by Jessica Glasscock

The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, & Consciousness (2003)
by Virginia Postrel

The Suburban You: Reports From the Home Front (2004)
by Mark Falanga

Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War (2004)
by Stanley Bing

Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971 - 1984 (2001)
by Van Burnham

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics and the Psyche (2004)
by Steven Harris

Surrealist Painters and Poets — An Anthology (2001)
by Mary Ann Caws

Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies (2003)
by TJ Wray

Sweet Land Stories (2004)
by E. L. Doctorow

Swing Shift: All Girl Bands of the 1940s (2001)
by Sherrie Tucker

Synners (2001)
by Pat Cadigan