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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 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
Jelena Bojić, Douglas Smith, 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

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

Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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

Sorceress of Darshiva
David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1989

Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1988

Sorrow
Claribel Alegría

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Sorrow and Starlight: Zodiac Academy 8
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Jessica Pan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up
Naya Rivera

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Sorry, Wrong Number
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

Sorta Like a Rock Star
Matthew Quick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

So This Is Ever After
F.T. Lukens

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Soucouyant
David Chariandy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Walter Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Soul Catcher
Leigh Bridger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1)
Lily Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Soul Eater, Vol. 1
Atsushi Ohkubo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
Gail Carriger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1
Gail Carriger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Soul On Ice
Eldridge Cleaver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Souls Belated
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

Soulsmith
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Souls Unfractured
Tillie Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Soul Taken
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sounder
William Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1969

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Sourcery
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Sourdough
Robin Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Christine Leigh Heyrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Southern Horrors
Crystal N. Feimster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

Southern Lady Code
Helen Ellis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
Elizabeth R. Varon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Southern Seas (Pepe Carvalho, #4)
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Southland
Nina Revoyr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

South of Broad
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

South Sea Tales (Modern Library Classics)
Jack London

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Sovereign
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

So Yesterday
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, #1)
Diane Duane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Sozaboy
Ken Saro-Wiwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Space Case
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Space Demons (Space Demons Trilogy, #1)
Gillian Rubinstein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Spaced Out (Moon Base Alpha, #2)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Spaceman of Bohemia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Space Station Seventh Grade (Space Station Seventh Grade, #1)
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Spanking Shakespeare
Jake Wizner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Spare
Prince Harry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023