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Saving Ceecee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Saving Emma: A Novel
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Saving Fish from Drowning
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Saving Francesca
Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Saving Grace
Raeanne Thayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Saving Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Saving Zasha
Randi Barrow

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Sawyer
Jessica Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Say Goodnight, Gracie
Julie Reece Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Saying Grace
Beth Gutcheon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Say What You Will
Cammie McGovern

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Scarlet
A.C. Gaughen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Scarlet Song
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Scars of Sweet Paradise
Alice Echols

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Scar Tissue
Michael Ignatieff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Scent of Apples
Bienvenido N. Santos

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

Scheherazade Goes West
Fatema Mernissi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

School Days
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Schoolgirl
Osamu Dazai

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1939

School's Out—forever
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Scoop
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Score
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Scoreboard Baby
Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Scoundrel Time
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

Scratch Beginnings
Adam Shepard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Scream for Us
Molly Doyle

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

Scribbler of Dreams
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Jeff Sutherland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema
Andrei Tarkovsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Searching for Sunday
Rachel Held Evans

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Searching For Zion
Emily Raboteau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Search Inside Yourself: Search Inside Yourself
Chade-Meng Tan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Season of Storms
Transl. David French, Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Season of the Machete
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Season Of The Witch
David Talbot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Sea Wife
Amity Gaige

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Second Chance Summer
Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Second Life
S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Second Place
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Second Star to the Right
Deborah Hautzig

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Secret Haven
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Secret Letters from 0 to 10
Susie Morgenstern

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Secretly Yours
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
T. Harv Eker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Secrets to the Grave
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Seduction Theory
Emily Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

See How They Run
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Seeing Red
Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Seeing Things
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

Seeing Voices
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Seek the Traitor's Son
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

See Me
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

See You at Harry's
Jo Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

See You Yesterday
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Seize the Day
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1949

Selection Day
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Selling 101
Zig Ziglar

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Selling the Invisible
Harry Beckwith

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Sent for You Yesterday
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Serafina and the Seven Stars
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

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

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
John Arden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Served Him Right
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 the Table
Danny Meyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Seven Days of Us
Francesca Hornak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Seven Perfect Things
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1926

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
David Harvey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Seventeenth Summer
Maureen Daly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1942

Seven Year Itch
Amy Daws

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Sex at Dawn
Cacilda Jethá, Christopher Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Shackleton's Stowaway
Victoria Mckernan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Shades
Marguerite Poland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shades of Gray
Jessica James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Shades of Simon Gray
Joyce Mcdonald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Shadow Cell
Andrew Bustamante

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Shadowhouse Fall
Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Shadow Kiss
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadow of a Bull
Maia Wojciechowska

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Shadow of the Dragon
Sherry Garland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Shadow of the Solstice
Anne Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Shadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012