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The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Marta Molnar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Secret Life of Words
Henry Hitchings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Lola Shoneyin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Secret Magdalene
Ki Longfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Secret Mountain (The Secret Series, #3)
Enid Blyton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

The Secret of Ella and Micha
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Secret of Gabi's Dresser (Gabi Klein #1)
Kathy Kacer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Secret of Gumbo Grove
Eleanora E. Tate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Secret of Nightingale Wood
Lucy Strange

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Secret of Platform 13
Eva Ibbotson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Mildred Benson, Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1992

The Secret of the Blue Trunk
Lise Dion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Secret of the Nagas
Amish Tripathi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Secret of the Old Clock
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

The Secret of the Unicorn (Tintin #11)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Secret Place
Tana French

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Secret Rapture
David Hare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

The Secret River
Kate Grenville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Secret School
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Secret Servant
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1910

The Secret Side of Empty
Maria E. Andreu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Secret Sky
Atia Abawi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Secrets of Midwives
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secrets She Carried
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Secrets She Keeps
Michael Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Secret Story Of Sonia Rodriguez
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
Celeste Fletcher McHale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Secret Wife
Gill Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
Susan Holloway Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Christopher Scotton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Secret Witness
Victor Methos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Secret Zoo
Bryan Chick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Seed Keeper
Diane Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Seeing Stone
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #2)
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Seep
Chana Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Selection
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Sellout
Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Senator and the Sharecropper
Chris Myers Asch

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Senator's Wife
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Sensible Thing
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sentence is Death
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sentinel
Lee Child, Andrew Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Sentry
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Sepher Bahir: Book Of Light
Nehunya ben HaKanah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Septembers Of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Serial Killer’s Wife
Alice Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life
Emmet Fox

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Serpent and the Rope
Raja Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

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 | Adult | Published in 2002

The Servants of Twilight
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Servile State
Hilaire Belloc, Robert A. Nisbet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai, Transl. Donald Keene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
Christopher Booker

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Seven Crystal Balls (Tintin #13)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Seven Daughters of Eve
Bryan Sykes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
John Ruskin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
Juliet Grames

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Nicholas Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Seven Poor Travellers
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

The Seven Sisters
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948

The Seventh Function of Language
Laurent Binet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Seventh Scroll
Wilbur Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Seventh Wish
Kate Messner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980