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The Withered Arm and Other Stories
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1888

The Witness
Ann Petry, Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Wives
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Wizard Heir
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Wizard of Oz and Other Wonderful Books of Oz: The Emerald City of Oz and Glinda of Oz (Oz, #1, 6, 14)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Wizards of Once (The Wizards of Once, #1)
Cressida Cowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Wizard (The Wizard Knight, #2)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Wolf
Lorenzo Carcaterra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793
Niklas Natt och Dag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wolf Den
Elodie Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wolf Gift
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen, #1)
K.S. Villoso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)
Jordan Belfort

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Wolves: A Play
Sarah DeLappe

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 2018

The Wolves in the Walls
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The Woman Behind the New Deal
Kirstin Downey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

The Woman in Black
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Woman in Me
Britney Spears

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Woman in the Dark
Vanessa Savage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Woman in the Dunes
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Woman in the Library
Sulari Gentill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel
Ana Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The Woman Next Door
Yewande Omotoso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Woman of Colour: A Tale
Ed. Lyndon J. Dominique, Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

The Woman of Rome
Alberto Moravia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Woman on the Orient Express
Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Woman's Hour
Elaine Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Kate Moore

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7)
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Jennifer Steil

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Bob Shacochis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1986

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
Jason Fagone

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
Linda Hogan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Sue Townsend

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Woman with the Blue Star
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Women
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Women: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Women in the Castle
Jessica Shattuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Women of Lockerbie (Acting Edition)
Deborah Brevoort

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

The Women of the Copper Country
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Women's Room
Marilyn French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Wonder
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wonder Book of the Air
Cynthia Shearer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Selma Lagerlöf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #1)
Eleanor Cameron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

The Wonderful World of Oz
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1900

The Wonderling
Mira Bartok

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Wonder of Lost Causes
Nick Trout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Wonder Smith and His Son: A Tale from the Golden Childhood of the World
Ella Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Wonders of the Invisible World
David Gates

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Wood Beyond the World
William Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Woods
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1972

The Word is Murder
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Words
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

The Words to Say It
Marie Cardinal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
Linda R. Monk

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Work
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Working Poor: Invisible in America
David K. Shipler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The work of a common woman: The collected poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977 ; with an introduction by Adrienne Rich
Judy Grahn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

The Work of Art (Somerset Stories, #1)
Mimi Matthews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Work of Wolves
Kent Meyers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The World: A Brief Introduction
Richard N. Haass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The World According To Garp
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The World According to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The World As I See It
Albert Einstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
Ben Rhodes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The World Below
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The World Beyond Your Head
Matthew B. Crawford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Worldly Philosophers
Robert Heilbroner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1953

The World Made Straight
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The World of Goods
Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Linda Antonsson, Elio M. García Jr.

Fiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The World of Late Antiquity
Peter Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

The World of the Hunger Games
Kate Egan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
Stefan Zweig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

The World Played Chess
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The World Set Free
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914