This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on the theory of solitons and its relevance in physics. Journal articles and books are cited for the following topics: the history of solitons, construction of soliton equations and of soliton solutions, solitons and mathematics, quantum solitons, solitons in physics and near-integrable equations.

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