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The Wife Stalker
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Wife Upstairs
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Wild Ass's Skin
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1831

The Wild Boy of Aveyron
Harlan Lane

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1884

The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Wild Geese
Ōgai Mori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Wild Inside
Jamey Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wild Iris
Louise Glück

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

The Wild Palms
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary Queen of Scots (Young Royals, #7)
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Wild Robot
Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Wild Silence

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Will
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Will of the Empress
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

The Will of the Many
James Islington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Willoughbys
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Willows
Algernon Blackwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1907

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
Kelly McGonigal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ed. Walter Kaufmann, Transl. R.J. Hollingdale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

The Wind (Barker Texas History Center Series)
Dorothy Scarborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Wind in the Reeds
Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1908

The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

The Wind Singer
William Nicholson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)
S.J. Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1975

The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, Transl. Jay Rubin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Winemakers
Jan Moran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Winemaker's Wife
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Winged Girl of Knossos
Erick Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
Li-Young Lee

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Winged Watchman
Hilda van Stockum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The Wings of the Dove
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Winner
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Winners
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Winner's Crime
Marie Rutkoski

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1)
Marie Rutkoski

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Winner's Kiss
Marie Rutkoski

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Winner Stands Alone
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1946

The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Winter Guest
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Winter King
C.L. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Winter of Frankie Machine
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Winter Of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Winter of the Witch
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

The Winter People
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Winter Room
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

The Winter Rose
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winter Sea (Slains, #1)
Susanna Kearsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winter Soldier
Daniel Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Wintringham Mystery
Anthony Berkeley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
Jacob Helberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wisdom of Crowds
Joe Abercrombie, James Surowiecki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan W. Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wish
Gail Carson Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Wish Giver
Bill Brittain

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Wish List
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Wishsong of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #3)
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
India Holton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Witch Boy (The Witch Boy, #1)
Molly Knox Ostertag

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Witch Collector
Charissa Weaks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Witch Elm
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Witches
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Witches of New York
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Witches of Worm
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Witchfinder's Sister
Beth Underdown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Witching Hour
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Witch in the Wood (The Once and Future King, #2)
T.H. White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1939

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Witch of Edmonton
Thomas Dekker, John Ford, William Rowley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1621

The Witch of Portobello
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Witch of Willow Hall
Hester Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Witch's Boy
Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Witch's Daughter
Paula Brackston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Witch with No Name
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard, #1)
Tad Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017