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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

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
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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
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

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 Thirsty
Rachel Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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
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