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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Serpent King
Jeff Zentner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Serpent of Venice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond, #1)
Sayantani DasGupta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Serpent's Shadow
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
James C. Hunter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Servant of Two Masters (Plays for Performance Series)
Carlo Goldoni

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1745

The Servants of Twilight
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Servile State
Hilaire Belloc, Robert A. Nisbet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1912

The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai, Transl. Donald Keene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
Christopher Booker

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Seven Crystal Balls (Tintin #13)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Seven Daughters of Eve
Bryan Sykes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
John Ruskin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1849

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
Juliet Grames

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Nicholas Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Seven Poor Travellers
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1854

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
Nan Silver, John M. Gottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Daniel L. Schacter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Seven Sisters
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Deepak Chopra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948

The Seven Tablets of Creation: The Enuma Elish
Leonard William King, ed.

Fiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

The Seventh Function of Language
Laurent Binet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Seventh Scroll
Wilbur Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Seventh Wish
Kate Messner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Sex Lives of Cannibals
J. Maarten Troost

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Sexual Contract
Carole Pateman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Shack
William P. Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Shadow at Evening (The Lamb Among the Stars, #1)
Chris Walley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Shadow Box
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Shadow Club (Shadow Club, #1)
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

The Shadow Dancer
Margaret Coel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Shadow Hero
Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Shadowhunter's Codex
Joshua Lewis, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart, #2)
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Shadow-Line
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Shadow of Kyoshi
F.C. Yee, Michael Dante DiMartino

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Fatima Bhutto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
Daisy Dunn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)
James Islington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1944

The Shadow Puppet (Maigret, #13)
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Shadow Queen
C.J. Redwine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire, #1)
C.J. Redwine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Shadow Rising
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Shadows
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters, #3)
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere, #1)
Jacqueline West

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Shadow Throne
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Shadowy Horses
Susanna Kearsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Shakespeare Requirement
Julie Schumacher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Shakespeare Stealer
Gary L. Blackwood

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Shape of Mercy
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Shape of Things
Neil LaBute

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

The Shape of Thunder
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
Andrea Camilleri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Sheep Look Up
John Brunner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Sheik
Edith Maude Hull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Shell Seekers
Rosamunde Pilcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Shelters of Stone
Jean M. Auel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Shepherd
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

The Shepherd of the Hills
Harold Bell Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

The Shepherd's Crown
Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Shepherd's Hut
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
James Rebanks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Shepherd's Voice
Robin Lee Hatcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Sheriff of Yrnameer
Michael Rubens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Sherlockian
Graham Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Sherwood Ring
Elizabeth Marie Pope

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1958

The Shield of Achilles
W.H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

The Shift
Theresa Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

THE SHIFT
Tinx

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Shining
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Shining Company
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Shining Ones
David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1993

The Ship of Brides
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3)
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Shipping News
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007