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Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master
Brad Gilbert, Steve Jamison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Winter
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1994

Winter Danger
William O. Steele

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Winter in Madrid
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Winter in Majorca
George Sand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1842

Winter in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Winter in Sokcho
Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Elisa Shua Dusapin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Winter In The Blood
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Winterkill
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Winter Kills
Richard Condon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Winter Moon
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Winter of the World
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Winter Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Winter (Seasonal, #2)
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Winterset Hollow
Jonathan Edward Durham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter's Heart
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Winter's Mourn
Mary Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Winter Solstice
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Wintersong
S. Jae-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Winter’s Orbit
Everina Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Wintersteel
Will Wight

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Winter Street
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Winter Turning
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Winterwood
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Winter World (The Long Winter, #1)
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
Stan Tatkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Wires and Nerve
Douglas Holgate, Marissa Meyer, Stephen Gilpin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Wisdom Sits in Places
Keith H. Basso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Wise Children
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Wiseguy
Nicholas Pileggi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wish
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Wishin' and Hopin'
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wishtree
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Wish You Well
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wish You Were Here
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wish You Were Mine
Tara Sivec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Witch and Wizard
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Witch Child
Celia Rees

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Lyndal Roper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Witches' Loaves
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn #1)
Sophie Escabasse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Witches of East End
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Witch King
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
C.L. Polk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Wither
Lauren DeStefano

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

With Everything I Am
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Withholding Evidence (Evidence, #3)
Rachel Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Within Reach: My Everest Story
Mark Pfetzer, Jack Galvin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

With Love From Harlem
Reshonda Tate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Robert Hare

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Without Consent
Sarah Weinman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Without Fail
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Without Merit
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Without My Cloak (Virago Modern Classics)
Kate O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Without Remorse
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

With the Old Breed
Eugene Sledge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

With You and Without You
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

With You Forever
Chloe Liese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Witness
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

Witness in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wittgenstein’s Mistress
David Markson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
Vivek Ramaswamy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Woken Furies
Richard K. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Woke Up Like This
Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Wolf by the Ears
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Wolf by Wolf
Ryan Graudin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wolf Gone Wild
Juliette Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wolf Hollow (Lew Ferris, #1)
Victoria Houston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wolf Hour
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Wolfhunter River
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolf Pack
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
Abby Wambach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Wolfsbane
Andrea Cremer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Wolfsong
T. J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wolf-Speaker
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Wolf Totem
Rong Jiang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004