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The Samurai's Tale
Erik Christian Haugaard

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sandbox
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Sand Child
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Sandman
E. T. A. Hoffmann

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1816

The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1
Neil Gaiman

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

The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Satisfaction Café
Kathy Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Saturdays
Elizabeth Enright

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

The Satyricon
Petronius, Transl. Piero Chiara, Transl. P.G. Walsh

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 60

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 Scammer
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

The Scarlet Ibis
James Hurst

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

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 Scent Keeper
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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 Story
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Schooner Flight
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Schwa Was Here
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Science of Breakable Things
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Scorch Trials
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

The Sculptor's Funeral
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

The Sea
John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Sea in Winter
Christine Day

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Sea of Trolls
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Searcher
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Sea-Wolf
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

The Second Coming
Walker Percy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Second Death of Locke
V. L. Bovalino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 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 Secret
Denise Levertov

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

The Secretary Chant
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Secret Book Society
Madeline Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Secret Chord
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1910

The Secret History
Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
Alka Joshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Marta Molnar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1939

The Secret Lion
Alberto Alvaro Rios

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1984

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Secret of the Old Clock
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

The Secret Place
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret School
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Secret Zoo
Bryan Chick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Seed Keeper
Diane Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Selection
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1888

The Sellout
Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker

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

The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sentence Is Death
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The September House
Carissa Orlando

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Septembers Of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Sequel
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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's Shadow
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai, Transl. Donald Keene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Setting Sun and the Rolling World
Charles Mungoshi

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

The Seven Dials Mystery
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 Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Seven Sisters
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Most Important Thing
Shelley Pearsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Seventh Veil of Salome
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Sexual Contract
Carole Pateman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988