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Why I Write
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Why Marx Was Right
Terry Eagleton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Paul Ormerod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Why Not Me? : The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency
Mindy Kaling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Why People Believe Weird Things
Michael Shermer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Why Religion?: A Personal Story
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
Robert N. McCauley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Why the Allies Won
Richard Overy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Why the Novel Matters
D.H. Lawrence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Why The West Rules – For Now
Ian Morris

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Why the Whales Came
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Why We Act
Catherine A. Sanderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
Paco Underhill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Why We Do What We Do
Edward L. Deci, Richard Flaste

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
Alice Robb

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It
Benjamin Bikman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Helen Fisher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why We Swim
Bonnie Tsui

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping
Robert M. Sapolsky

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

Wicked
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Wicked and the Wallflower (The Bareknuckle Bastards, #1)
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Wicked Appetite
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wicked Beat
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wicked Beauty
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wicked Business
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Wicked Charms
Janet Evanovich, Phoef Sutton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Wicked Cravings
Suzanne Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Wicked Nights
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Wicked Onyx
Debbie Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Wicked Saints
Emily A. Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Wicked: The Grimmerie
David Cote, Joan Marcus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Wideacre
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Wide Awake (Wide Awake, #1)
Shelly Crane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Widow's Point
Richard Chizmar, W. H. Chizmar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Wife by Wednesday
Catherine Bybee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Wilbur and Orville
Fred Howard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Wild
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Wild and Crooked
Leah Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Wild Apples
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1862

Wild at Heart
K.A. Tucker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
John Eldredge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Wild Beauty
Anna-Marie McLemore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Wild Bird
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Wild Born
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Wildcard
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Wild Card
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wild Decembers
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Wilde Lake
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wild: Endangered Animals in Living Motion
Dan Kainen, Kathy Wollard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Wilder Girls
Rory Power

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Wilderness and the American Mind
Roderick Nash

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Wildest Dreams
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wildfire
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Wild Fire
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wildflower
Drew Barrymore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Wildflower Hill
Kimberley Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Adrienne Brodeur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Wild Geese
Martha Ostenso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang, America's Horse
David Philipps

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Wild Lands
Stacey Marie Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wild Magic
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Wild Man
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Wild Man Island
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Wildoak
C. C. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Wild Sign
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Wild Wings
Gill Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wild Women and the Blues
Denny S. Bryce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wildwood
Colin Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wildwood Creek
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wildwood Dancing
Juliet Marillier

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Wilfred Owen
Jon Stallworthy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1795

Will
Will Smith, Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Willa of the Wood
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
Margaret Heffernan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
David Levithan, John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

William: An Englishman
Cicely Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

William Shakespeare
Terry Eagleton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
Ian Doescher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2013