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Shadow of the Hegemon
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Shadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadow Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Shadow Princess
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Shadow Puppets
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Shadows at Dawn
Karl Jacoby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadow Scale
Rachel Hartman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Shadow's Claim
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)
Brent Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadowshaper
Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Shadows in Death (In Death, #51)
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Shadows in Flight
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Shadows (Lux, #0.5)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Shadows of the Workhouse
Jennifer Worth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Shadows on the Wall (York, #1)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

Shadow Souls
L.J. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Shadow Spell
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Shadow Spinner
Susan Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22)
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Shadow Tag
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shadrach
Meindert DeJong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1953

Shadrach in the Furnace
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Shady Hollow (Shady Hollow, #1)
Juneau Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1010

Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuściński

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1982

Shake Hands with the Devil
Roméo Dallaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Shaken
Tim Tebow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Shakespeare
David M. Bevington

Fiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1599

Shakespearean Tragedy
A.C. Bradley

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
James Shapiro

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Shakespeare on Love

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Shakespeare Saved My Life
Laura Bates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Shakespeare's Landlord
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Shakespeare's Scribe
Gary L. Blackwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Shakespeare's Secret
Elise Broach

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
Ramie Targoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Shakespeare's Sister (Tale Blazers)
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Shakespeare's Wife
Germaine Greer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shall We Tell the President?
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Shaman
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Shaman's Crossing
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shame
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Shamela
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1741

Shane
Jack Schaefer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1949

Shanghai
Joseph Kanon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Shanghai Girls
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
Aimee Meredith Cox

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Shards
Ismet Prcic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Shards of a Broken Crown
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
Lois McMaster Bujold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Shark Girl
Kelly Bingham

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2007

Sharks In The Time Of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sharp Ends
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

Sharpe's Siege (Sharpe, #18)
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Sharpe's Tiger
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Sharpest Sting (Elemental Assassin, #18)
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Shattered
James Patterson, James O. Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Jonathan Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
Harlan Ellison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

Shatterglass
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Shattering Glass
Gail Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Shatterproof
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

She: A History of Adventure
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

She and Her Cat: Stories
Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

She Can Run
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
Ian Kerner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

She Drives Me Crazy
Kelly Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Sheep
Valerie Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Sheets
Brenna Thummler

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

She Gets the Girl
Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

She Had Some Horses
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

She Is a Haunting
Trang Thanh Tran

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

She is Not Invisible
Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Shell
Kristina Olsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Shelley
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Shell Shaker
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Shelter
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Sheltering Rain
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Shelter in Place
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

She Rides Shotgun
Jordan Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

She Rises
Kate Worsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sherlock Holmes and the Disappearing Diamond (Baker Street Academy, #1)
Sam Hearn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

She Said
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

She Said What?
Maria Braden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

She Said Yes
Misty Bernall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

She's Not Sorry
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Memoir in Verse | Adult | Published in 2024

She's Not There
Jennifer Finney Boylan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

She Started It
Sian Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023