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Sojourn
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
Fredrick Mckissack, Patricia Mckissack

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Solar
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Solar Bones
Mike McCormack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Solaris
Stanislaw Lem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Solar Storms
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
Claire Keegan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

Sold
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2006

Soldados de Salamina
Javier Cercas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Soldier Boys
Dean Hughes, Kim McGillivray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Soldier Dog
Sam Angus

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Soldier Girls
Helen Thorpe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Soldier of Sidon (Latro #3)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Soldier of the Mist (Latro, #1)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Soldiers Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1998

Soldiers' Pay
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Soldier X
Don L. Wulffson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Sold on a Monday
Kristina McMorris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Soledad
Angie Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Solenoid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Sole Survivor
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Solibo Magnificent
Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Solider's Home
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Solitaire
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Solitary
Albert Woodfox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Solito
Javier Zamora

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Solitude: A Return to the Self

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Solo
Mary Rand Hess, Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2017

Solomon vs. Lord (Solomon vs. Lord, #1)
Paul Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Sombrero Fallout
Richard Brautigan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
Arin Andrews, Joshua Lyon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
Harry Mazer, Peter Lerangis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Somebody Scream!
Marcus Reeves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Somebody's Daughter
Ashley C. Ford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Somebody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Some Boys
Patty Blount

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Someday, Someday, Maybe
Lauren Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Some Girls Are
Courtney Summers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Some Girls Bite
Chloe Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Some Girls Do
Jennifer Dugan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Graham Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Some Kind of Perfect
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Some Luck
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Some Mistakes of Moses
Robert G. Ingersoll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1879

Some of My Best Friends are Black
Tanner Colby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2011

Someone
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Someone Else's Shoes
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Someone Knows
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Someone Like You
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Someone Named Eva
Joan M. Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Someone to Talk To
Deborah Eisenberg

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Someone to Watch Over Me
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Someone We Know: A Novel
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Someone You Can Build a Nest In
John Wiswell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Something About You
Julie James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Something Blue
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Something Borrowed
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Sean Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Something from the Nightside
Simon R. Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Something Happened
Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Something in the Air
Richard Hoffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Something in the Water
Catherine Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Something Like Fate
Susane Colasanti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Something Like Home
Andrea Beatriz Arango

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Something like Normal
Trish Doller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County
Kristen Green

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Something New Under the Sun
John Robert Mcneill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Something of Value
Robert Ruark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
Ron Rash

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

Something Rotten
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Silas House, Jason Howard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Some Things That Stay
Sarah Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Something to Declare: Essays
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

Something to Talk About
Meryl Wilsner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Something Upstairs
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1962

Something Wilder
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Something Wonderful
Judith McNaught

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Some Thoughts Concerning Education
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1693

Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Sometimes It Lasts
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
Kao Kalia Yang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford Years, #12)
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Somewhere Towards the End
Diana Athill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Somnium: The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy
Johannes Kepler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1634

So Much to Tell You (So Much to Tell You, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987