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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Mónica Armiño

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The War I Finally Won
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

The Wife Of His Youth
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Wild Robot
Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

The Witches
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

The World According to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Wait Till Helen Comes
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Walden
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1854

We Are All Made of Molecules
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

We Are Displaced
Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

We Are Not Free
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Are Okay
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

We're Not from Here
Geoff Rodkey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

We Were Here
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852

What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

When I Was the Greatest
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

When Stars Are Scattered
Omar Mohamed, Victoria Jamieson

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966

Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Whirligig
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

White Noise
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1989

Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wish
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Witness for the Prosecution
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wonder
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Works and Days
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847