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Searching For Zion
Emily Raboteau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Season Of The Witch
David Talbot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Second Chance Summer
Morgan Matson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Second Life
S. J. Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Second Star to the Right
Deborah Hautzig

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Secret Letters from 0 to 10
Susie Morgenstern

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Secrets of a Charmed Life
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Secrets to the Grave
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
Nabeel Qureshi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

See You at Harry's
Jo Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

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

Sent for You Yesterday
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

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

Set This House on Fire
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Seveneves
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1926

Seventeenth Summer
Maureen Daly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1942

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 Divers
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 on the Mountain
Margi Preus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Shadows at Dawn
Karl Jacoby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Tariq Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Shadow Spinner
Susan Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Shadow Tag
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuściński

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1982

Shaken
Tim Tebow

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2016

Shakespeare Saved My Life
Laura Bates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Wife
Germaine Greer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Shamela
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1741

Shane
Jack Schaefer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1949

Shards
Ismet Prcic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Shark Girl
Kelly Bingham

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

Shattered
Jay Bonansinga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
Harlan Ellison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

She: A History of Adventure
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

She Had Some Horses
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

She is Not Invisible
Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Shelley
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Shelter
Jung Yun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Not There
Jennifer Finney Boylan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

She Walks In Beauty
Siri L. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ship Fever
Andrea Barrett

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Shiver
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Shizuko's Daughter
Kyoko Mori

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Shock and Awe
Simon Reynolds

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Shooting Star
Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Shooting Stars
Brian Falkner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Shooting Water
Devyani Saltzman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Short Eyes
Miguel Piñero

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Showdown at Gucci Gulch
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Alan S. Murray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Shug
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Sickened
Julie Gregory

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Side-Kicked
Russell Brettholtz

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Sight Lines
Arthur Sze

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Silence
Shūsaku Endō

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Conrad Aiken

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1934

Silk
Alessandro Baricco

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1996

Silverfin
Charlie Higson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Singing in the Rain
Tim Hopgood

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2013

Sing to the Dawn
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

Sin in the Second City
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Sister Citizen
Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sisterland
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Sisters in the Wilderness
Charlotte Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Skeleton Crew
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

Skeletons on the Zahara
Dean King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Skellig
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Skels
Maggie Dubris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Skim
Mariko Tamaki

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

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Xue Xinran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004