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Senlin Ascends
Josiah Bancroft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

Sent for You Yesterday
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert, Robert Baldick, Geoffrey Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Sentinel
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Separate Pasts: Growing Up White In The Segregated South
Melton A. McLaurin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Separation of Power
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Sepulchre
Kate Mosse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Seraphina
Rachel Hartman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Seraph on the Suwanee
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Serena
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation
Ann Bausum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Sergeant York and the Great War (Men of Courage)
Alvin C. York, Tom Skeyhill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1928

Seriously... I'm Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
John Arden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Sermon on the Mount
Jesus

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1978

Serpent & Dove
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Serpent Mage
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Serpico
Peter Maas, Frank Serpico

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Servant of the Bones
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Servant of the Empire
Janny Wurts, Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Sylviane A. Diouf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Sesame and Lilies
John Ruskin, Jane Epstein Hunter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1865

Sesher Kobita, the Last Poem
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Nedra Glover Tawwab

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Set in Stone
Linda Newbery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Set My Heart to Five
Simon Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Set on You
Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Set This House on Fire
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Setting Free the Kites
Alex George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 467

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
Barbara Cohen, Bahija Lovejoy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Seven Days
Eve Ainsworth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Seven Days in June
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Seven Days of Us
Francesca Hornak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Seven Deadly Wonders
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Seveneves
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Seven Guitars
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Matthew Restall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Seven Perfect Things
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1926

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Revised and Expanded)
Hisaye Yamamoto

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1988

Seventeenth Summer
Maureen Daly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1942

Seventh Grave and No Body
Darynda Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1988

Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

Seven Types of Ambiguity
William Empson

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Seven Up
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Seven Years
Peter Stamm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Seven Years In Tibet
Heinrich Harrer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Seven Years to Sin
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Sever
Lauren DeStefano

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Severance
Ling Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sex and Rage
Eve Babitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Sex and Vanity: A Novel
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sex at Dawn
Cacilda Jethá, Christopher Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick
Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Chuck Klosterman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Sex, Not Love
Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life
Vanessa Marin with Xander Marin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Sexual Politics
Kate Millett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
Henry Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Michael H. Cottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Shackleton's Stowaway
Victoria Mckernan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Shades
Marguerite Poland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shades of Earth
Beth Revis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Shades of Gray
Carolyn Reeder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shades of Midnight
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shades of Simon Gray
Joyce Mcdonald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shades of Twilight
Linda Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Shadowfell (Shadowfell, #1)
Juliet Marillier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shadowfever
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Shadow Game
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Shadowheart (Shadowmarch, #4)
Tad Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shadow Jumper
J M Forster

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Shadow Kiss
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadowland
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Shadowland (The Immortals, #3)
Alyson Noel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Shadowland (The Mediator, #1)
Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Shadowmancer (Shadowmancer, #1)
G.P. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shadow of a Bull
Maia Wojciechowska

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Shadow of a Dark Queen (The Serpentwar Saga, #1)
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Shadow of Night
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadow of the Dragon
Sherry Garland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Shadow of the Fox
Julie Kagawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Shadow of the Giant
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005