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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 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

Someone
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Someone Else's Husband
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Walls
Daisy Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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 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 Blue
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

Son
Bernadette Dunne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Song for Night
Chris Abani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Song of a Captive Bird
Jasmin Darznik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Song of a Goat
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Song of Susannah
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Song of the Buffalo Boy
Sherry Garland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Song of the Forever Rains (Mousai, #1)
E.J. Mellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Song of the Hummingbird
Graciela Limón

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Song of the Shank
Jeffery Renard Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Song of the Sparrow
Lisa Ann Sandell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Songs for the New Depression
Kergan Edwards-Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Songs in Ordinary Time
Mary McGarry Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Songs in Ursa Major
Emma Brodie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Thomas Ligotti

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1986

Songs of Experience
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Songs of Innocence
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1789

Songs of the Humpback Whale
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Songs of Willow Frost
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Song Yet Sung
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Son of a Gun
Anne de Graaf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Son of a Witch
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Mosab Hassan Yousef

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Son of the Mob
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Son of the Revolution
Liang Heng, Judith Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Son of the Shadows
Juliet Marillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Sonora
Hannah Lillith Assadi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

So Not Meant to Be
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
Ramona Ausubel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Sons (House of Earth, #2)
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Sons of Fortune
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Sooley
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sophie and the Rising Sun
Augusta Trobaugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Sophie's Choice
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Sophist (Hackett Classics)
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 361

Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)
Zen Cho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015