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The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
Ellery Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Secret Chord
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Secret Fiancée
Catharina Maura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1910

The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett Book
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

The Secret Garden (Oxford Bookworms Library)
Clare West, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Secret Goldfish
David Means

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

The Secret History
Procopius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 550

The Secret History of Las Vegas
Chris Abani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Lauren Willig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret Hour
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

The Secret Hours
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Secret Hum of a Daisy
Tracy Holczer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Secret Island (Secret Series, #1)
Enid Blyton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1938

The Secret Keeper
Genevieve Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
Alka Joshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Secret Keepers
Trenton Lee Stewart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Secret Lake
Karen Inglis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Secret Language of Sisters
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Marta Molnar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret Life of Words
Henry Hitchings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Lola Shoneyin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Secret Magdalene
Ki Longfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Secret Mountain (The Secret Series, #3)
Enid Blyton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1941

The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Secret of Ella and Micha
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Secret of Gabi's Dresser (Gabi Klein #1)
Kathy Kacer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

The Secret of Gumbo Grove
Eleanora E. Tate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Secret of Nightingale Wood
Lucy Strange

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Secret of Platform 13
Eva Ibbotson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6)
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1931

The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Mildred Benson, Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1931

The Secret of the Blue Trunk
Lise Dion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Secret of the Caves (The Hardy Boys, #7)
Franklin W. Dixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1929

The Secret of the Nagas
Amish Tripathi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Secret of the Old Clock
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys, #3)
Franklin W. Dixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1927

The Secret of the Unicorn (Tintin #11)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Secret Place
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Secret Rapture
David Hare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
Cate Lineberry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Secret River
Kate Grenville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Secret School
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Secret Servant
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1910

The Secret Side of Empty
Maria E. Andreu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Secret Sky
Atia Abawi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Secrets of Midwives
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #4)
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secrets She Carried
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Secrets She Keeps
Michael Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Secret Story Of Sonia Rodriguez
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
Celeste Fletcher McHale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Secret Wife
Gill Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
Susan Holloway Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Christopher Scotton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secret Witness
Victor Methos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Secret Zoo
Bryan Chick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Seducer's Diary
Søren Kierkegaard, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Howard Vincent Hong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1843

The Seed Keeper
Diane Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Seeing Stone
Kevin Crossley-Holland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #2)
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Seep
Chana Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Selection
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World
Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Sellout
Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Senator and the Sharecropper
Chris Myers Asch

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Senator's Wife
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Frank Kermode

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Sensible Thing
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sentence is Death
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sentinel
Mark Oldfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sentry
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sepher Bahir: Book Of Light
Nehunya ben HaKanah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Septembers Of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
Sean B. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Serial Killer’s Wife
Alice Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life
Emmet Fox

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

The Sermons of St. Alphonsus: For All the Sundays of the Year (The Ascetical Works, #16)
Alfonso María de Liguori

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1852

The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Serpent and the Rope
Raja Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960