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A Walk Across America
Peter Jenkins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

A Walk Across The Sun
Corban Addison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Walk Among the Tombstones (Matthew Scudder, #10)
Lawrence Block

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
Alex La Guma

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1962

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

A Walk on the Great Barrier Reef
Caroline Arnold

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Wallflower Christmas
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Wanted Man
Lee Child, Dick Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A War Like No Other
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories: With Original Annotation
M.R. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible
Christy Lefteri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Wedding in December
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Wedding in Haiti
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

A Week at the Shore
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Week in the Woods
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

A Week in Winter
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Week of Mondays
Jessica Brody

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

A Week to be Wicked
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Well-Behaved Woman
Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Well-Tempered Heart (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #2)
Jan-Philipp Sendker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Whisper in the Dark: Twelve Thrilling Tales
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

A Whole New Life
Reynolds Price

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Whole New World
Liz Braswell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

A Wicked Thing (A Wicked Thing, #1)
Rhiannon Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Widow for One Year
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Wilderness Within
David Backes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Wild Swan
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Wind In The Door
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

A Winter in New York
Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
Christelle Dabos, Transl. Hildegarde Serle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

A Winter's Tale
Ian Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

A Wish in the Dark
Christina Soontornvat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A Witch in Love (Winter Trilogy, #2)
Ruth Warburton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon
Sarah Hawley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

A Wolf Called Romeo
Nick Jans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Mónica Armiño

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Woman After God's Own Heart
Elizabeth George

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

A Woman in Berlin
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

A Woman in the Polar Night
Christiane Ritter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1938

A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy
Sonia Purnell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman of Substance (Emma Harte Saga #1)
Barbara Taylor Bradford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Woman Of Thirty
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1834

A Woman's Story
Annie Ernaux

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1851

A Work in Progress
Jarrett Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies
Martin J. Sherwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

A World In Disarray
Richard Haass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A World Made New
Mary Ann Glendon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2001

A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A World Out of Time (The State, #1)
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
G.J. Meyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A World Without Princes
Soman Chainani

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Adam Tooze

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Waiting Room
Emily Bleeker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Waiting Years
Fumiko Enchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Wakes
Dianne Yarwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wake-Up Call
Beth O'Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Walk
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Walking Dead: Compendium One
Robert Kirkman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them
Charlie Adlard, Robert Kirkman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Tony Moore, Robert Kirkman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us
Robert Kirkman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars
Robert Kirkman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made To Suffer
Cliff Rathburn, Charlie Adlard, Robert Kirkman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Wall
Marlen Haushofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Wallcreeper
Nell Zink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Walled City
Ryan Graudin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Wallflower Wager
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Peter Sís

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Walls Around Us
Nova Ren Suma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Waltz
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Wanderer
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Wandering Earth
Liu Cixin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

The Wandering Falcon
Jamil Ahmad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)
Pirateaba

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Wanderings of Odysseus
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Wangs vs. the World
Jade Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Andrew Delbanco

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The War Below
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The War Between the Classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

The Warded Man
Peter V Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Warden
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1855