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Season of the Machete

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Season of the Sandstorms

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Season Of The Witch

David Talbot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Seasons of Glass and Iron

Amal El-Mohtar

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Dragon Sanctuary

Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Secrets to the Grave

Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Seduction Theory

Emily Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Seed to Harvest

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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 at the Top

Zig Ziglar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

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

Self Reliance and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1844

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

Send Down the Rain

Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sent

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Sent for You Yesterday

John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Sentinel

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

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

Serpent Sea

Maiya Ibrahim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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 and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 and the City

Candace Bushnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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

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

Shadow Reaper

Lynette Noni

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

Shadows at Dawn

Karl Jacoby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Shadowshaper Legacy

Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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 Speaker

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

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 (young Readers Edition)

Tim Tebow

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2016

Shakespeare in a Divided America

James Shapiro

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Shamela

Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1741

Shane

Jack Schaefer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1949

Shape

Jordan Ellenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Shards

Ismet Prcic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Shards of Earth

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Shark Girl

Kelly Bingham

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

Sharp Ends

Joe Abercrombie

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