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What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

What Is This Thing Called Science?
Alan F. Chalmers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

What Is to Be Done?
Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1863

What is Visible
Kimberly Elkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

What I Thought Was True
Huntley Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

What It Takes
Stephen A. Schwarzman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Richard Ben Cramer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

What I've Done
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
Kristin Newman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Tina Seelig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What Jamie Saw
Carolyn Coman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

What Katy Did
Susan Coolidge

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1872

What Lies Between Us
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Light
Jay Asher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

What Lives in the Woods
Lindsay Currie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

What Maisie Knew
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

What Men Live by and Other Tales
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

What Momma Left Me
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2022

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About, #1)
Michele Filgate

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1)
Sonya Sones

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2001

What Night Brings
Carla Trujillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

What Now?
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?
Etgar Keret

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Danielle Ofri

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Carole Radziwill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

What's a Girl Gotta Do? (The Spinster Club, #3)
Holly Bourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

What's Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

What's Cooking
Burt Wolf

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Peter Hedges

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

What She Knew
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What She Left Me
Judy Doenges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

What She Saw
Mary Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Whatshisface
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

What's Mine and Yours
Naima Coster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
William Graham Sumner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1883

What's So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

What Stalks the Deep
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

What Stands in a Storm
Kim Cross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Jean Fritz

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What's Wrong with the World
G.K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1910

What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

What the Buddha Taught
Walpola Rahula

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2017

What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Mona Hanna-Attisha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

What the Fireflies Knew
Kai Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What the **** is Normal?!
Francesca Martínez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age
Renée Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

What the Moon Said
Gayle Rosengren

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

What the Moon Saw
Laura Resau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

What the Night Knows
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What the River Knows
Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What the Wife Knew
Darby Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What They Found: Love on 145th Street
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2007

What This Cruel War Was Over
Chandra Manning

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

What to do When Someone Dies
Nicci French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

What to Expect When You're Expecting
Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1984

What to Listen for in Music
Aaron Copland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

What to Make of a Life
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

What to Say Next
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
Shad Helmstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

What Was Lost
Catherine O'Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

What Was Promised
Tobias Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We All Long For
Dionne Brand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

What We Lost
Dale Peck

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

What We Saw
Aaron Hartzler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

What Will People Say?
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What You Did
Claire McGowan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What You Have Heard Is True
Carolyn Forché

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

What You Wish For
Mark Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Dr. William Davis, William Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

When
Victoria Laurie

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Ira Katznelson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

When a Ghost Talks, Listen (How I Became A Ghost, Book 2)
Tim Tingle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

When All Is Said
Anne Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When and Where I Enter
Paula Giddings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

When Beauty Tamed the Beast
Eloisa James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When Books Went To War
Molly Guptill Manning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016