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The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter
Lucius Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Scam
Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Scapegoat
René Girard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

The Scar
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Scar Boys
Len Vlahos

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Scarecrow
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scarecrow of Oz (Oz, #9)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1915

The Scarlet Gospels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1850

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Scarlet Plague
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Scarlet Thread
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Scarpetta Factor
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scent Keeper
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Nancy Pickard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Scholar
Dervla McTiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Aldon D. Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The scholar gipsy & Thyrsis
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

The School
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1976

The Schooldays of Jesus
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The School For Good and Evil
Soman Chainani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1777

The School of Essential Ingredients
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The School Story
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Schopenhauer Cure
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Science of Being Great: The Practical Guide to a Life of Power
Wallace D. Wattles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

The Science of Breakable Things
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1910

The Science of God
Gerald Schroeder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals (Live a Disciplined Life Book 1)
Peter Hollins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Scions of Shannara
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Scorch Trials
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Score
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Score (Parker, #5)
Richard Stark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scorpion
Paul Bowles

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

The Scorpion Rules
Erin Bow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Scottish Chiefs (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Jane Porter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1809

The Scottish Prisoner
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Scourge
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Julia Galef

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Thomas Pakenham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
Caroline Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Screwfly Solution
James Tiptree Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Sculptor
Scott McCloud

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sculptress
Minette Walters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Sea
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Sea Captain's Wife
Beth Powning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Sea Fairies
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1911

The Seafarer
Conor McPherson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Sea House
Esther Freud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Sea Hunters (The Sea Hunters #1)
Clive Cussler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Sea Inside
Philip Hoare

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Sea Keeper's Daughters (Carolina, #3)
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sealwoman's Gift
Sally Magnusson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Seamstress of New Orleans
Diane C. McPhail

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Sea Of Grass
Conrad Richter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Sea of Tranquility
Katja Millay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Sea of Trolls
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Search
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Searcher
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer That Changed the World
Stephen Mansfield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1)
Tony DiTerlizzi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Sea Road
Margaret Elphinstone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Sea Runners
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Seat of the Soul
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Sea-Wolf
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Second Coming
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
Linda Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Second Ending
Michelle Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Second Life of Mirielle West
Amanda Skenandore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew Mcafee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Second Mountain
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Second Mrs. Astor: A Heartbreaking Historical Novel of the Titanic
Shana Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Second Shepherd's Play
Wakefield Master

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1500

The Second Shift
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Anne Machung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Second Summoning (Keeper's Chronicles, #2)
Tanya Huff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Secret
Julie Garwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
The Secret Barrister

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023