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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 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 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 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 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 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

These Hollow Vows

Lexi Ryan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

These Impossible Things

Salma El‑Wardany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

Nancy E. Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

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

These Silent Woods

Kimi Cunningham Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

These Summer Storms

Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Theseus

Anonymous

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | BCE

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

These Violent Delights

Chloe Gong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Sexual Contract

Carole Pateman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Shack

William P. Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Shadow of the Galilean

Gerd Theissen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Shadows: A Novel

Alex North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Shadows Between Us

Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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 Shampoo

Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

The Shape of Thunder

Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Shawl

Cynthia Ozick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Shawl

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

The Shell Collector

Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002