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Somewhere Beyond the Sea
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

So Much Water So Close to Home
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Son
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Song of a Second April
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
Okot p'Bitek

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1966

Song of Myself
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1856

Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Song of the Hummingbird
Graciela Limón

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Song Yet Sung
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Sonnet
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

Sonnet 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 1
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1591

Sonnet 104
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 129
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1599

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 18
Francesco Petrarch

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1330

Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 43
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 60
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 76
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Sonny's Blues
James Baldwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1957

Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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

Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Sooley
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sophie's Choice
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Sorcery of Thorns
Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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

Sorrow Is Not My Name
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Sorry, Wrong Number
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

So This is Nebraska
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

So This Is War
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Sounder
William Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1969

Sounds Like Love
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Source Code
Bill Gates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Southland
Nina Revoyr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

South of the Slot
Jack London

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

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

So What Are You, Anyway?
Lawrence Hill

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

So You Want to Be a Writer?
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Space Case
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Spare
Prince Harry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Spare Parts
Buzz Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Spark
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Spark of the Everflame
Penn Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Sparks Like Stars: A Novel
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Sparring Partners
John Grisham

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Speak
James Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Specials
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Spectacular Things
Beck Dorey-Stein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Speech Sounds
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Elizabeth I

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1588

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III)
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Spellcaster
Jaymin Eve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Spells for Forgetting
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Sphere
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Spilled Milk: Based on a True Story
K.L Randis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff
Neil Rackham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2002

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Donald S. Whitney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2018

Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Spring and All
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy
Frank Wedekind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Spring is like a perhaps hand
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Spring Storm
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Spunk
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Spy Camp
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Spy School
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Squirm
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream
Mychal Denzel Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016