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Social Distancing
Juan Felipe Herrera

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1880

Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

So Far from God
Ana Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Sofia Petrovna
Lydia Chukovskaya

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1965

Solaris
Stanislaw Lem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Solar Storms
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Sold
Patricia McCormick

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

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

Soldier's Home
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Soldier X
Don L. Wulffson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Sold on a Monday
Kristina McMorris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Solitary
Albert Woodfox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Solito
Javier Zamora

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Solitude and Leadership
William Deresiewicz

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

Solo
Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess

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

So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone
Anne Carson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Someday
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1956

Some Days
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

Someone Else's Shoes
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 We Know: A Novel
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Something Borrowed
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Something in the Water
Catherine Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County
Kristen Green

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1962

Sometime During Eternity . . .
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 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 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'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
Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng

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 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

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

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

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

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