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With Love, From Cold World
Alicia Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Winning in Mind
Lanny Bassham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

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 8
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

Witness in Death
Nora Roberts

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

Wives Like Us
Plum Sykes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Wolf Willow
Wallace Stegner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Wolf Winter
Cecilia Ekbäck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolf Worm
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Wolverine: Old Man Logan
Mark Millar, Steve McNiven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1975

Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman Evolve
Sarah Jakes Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Woman in the Dark
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman on Fire
Lisa Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Woman Walking Ahead
Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Womb City
Tlotlo Tsamaase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Women and Economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1898

Women Beware Women (Drama Classics)
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1657

Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Florence Given

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Women, Food and God
Geneen Roth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Women In Love
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Women of Trachis
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Women & Power: A Manifesto
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Pipher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Women's Hotel
Daniel M. Lavery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Women Talking
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change
Robin Norwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Women Without Men
Shahrnūsh Pārsīʹpūr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Wonder
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Mary Seacole

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1857

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Wonderland
Tommy Kovac, Sonny Liew (Illustrator)

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2008

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Wonders of the Invisible World
Christopher Barzak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

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

Wonder When You'll Miss Me
Amanda Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1972

Wondrous Strange (Wondrous Strange, #1)
Lesley Livingston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden, Steve Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Wooden On Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
John Wooden

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
Arthur S. Link

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

Woodsong
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Wool
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Word Nerd
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Word Power Made Easy
Norman Lewis

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1949

Words By Heart
Ouida Sebestyen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy
Andrew B. Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Words in Deep Blue
Cath Crowley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Words on Bathroom Walls
Julia Walton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017