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Wealth and Poverty
George Gilder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Weaponized Lies
Daniel J. Levitin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Are All Made of Molecules
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

We Are All the Same in the Dark
Julia Heaberlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

We Are Called to Rise
Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Displaced
Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
Dennis E. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

We Are Not Free
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Are Not from Here
Jenny Torres Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Okay
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

We Are Seven
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

We Are the Ants
Shaun David Hutchinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are the Fire
Sam Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

We Are Watching Eliza Bright
A.E. Osworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are Water
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Weasel
Cynthia DeFelice

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Weather
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Weather Girl
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Weaveworld
Clive Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Band of Angels
Elizabeth M. Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success
George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, Sharon M. Draper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2005

We Begin at the End
Chris Whitaker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Web of Lies
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

We Can Be Mended (Divergent, #3.5)
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2017

We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

We Contain Multitudes
Sarah Henstra

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

We Could Be So Good
Cat Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wedding Night
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wedgie & Gizmo
Suzanne Selfors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

We Dream of Space
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Weekend Warriors (Sisterhood, #1)
Fern Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Weeping Under This Same Moon
Jana Laiz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Weep Not, Child
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Weetzie Bat
Francesca Lia Block

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

We Free the Stars
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

We Gon' Be Alright
Jeff Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Samra Habib

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno Latour

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

We Hope for Better Things
Erin Bartels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

We Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Eric D. Weitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
Becky Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Welcome Home, Jellybean
Marlene Fanta Shyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Welcome to Braggsville
T. Geronimo Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Welcome to Lagos
Chibundu Onuzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Welcome to My Country
Laklak Burarrwanga

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

Welcome to Night Vale
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Welcome to Temptation
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

We'll Always Have Summer
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Well Matched
Jen DeLuca

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We'll Meet Again
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Well Met (Well Met, #1)
Jen DeLuca

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wellness
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Well Played
Jen DeLuca

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Well-Schooled in Murder
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel
Lauren Grodstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Need to Do Something
Max Booth III

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2020

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter
Celeste Headlee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Wenjack
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2016

We Own the Sky
Luke Allnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

We Play a Game
Duy Doan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

We're All Damaged
Matthew Norman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Kellie Carter Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

We're Going to Need More Wine
Gabrielle Union

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

We're Not from Here
Geoff Rodkey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

We Shall Overcome
Debbie Levy

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarassingly, A True Story
Josh Sundquist

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Wesley the Owl
Stacey O'Brien

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

We Sold Our Souls
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

We Speak in Storms
Natalie Lund

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

We Spread
Iain Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

West
Carys Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Westering Women
Sandra Dallas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

West of Kabul, East of New York
Tamim Ansary

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

West of the Revolution
Claudio Saunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

West with the Night
Beryl Markham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

We, the Drowned
Carsten Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

We, the Jury
Robert Rotstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

We the Living
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936