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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 Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 All Be Millionaires
Rachel Rodgers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Westmark
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

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 of Wicked
Nikki St. Crowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Wethering the Storm
Samantha Towle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We the Women
Norah O'Donnell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Gillian Gill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Cynthia Levinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

We Want Everything
Nanni Balestrini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Simu Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were Here
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

We Were Never Here
Andrea Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Roxanna Asgarian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Joseph L. Galloway, Harold G. Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

We Who Will Die
Stacia Stark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Weyward
Emilia Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whalefall
Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whale Fall
Elizabeth O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Whales on Stilts (Pals in Peril, #1)
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What About Will
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2021

What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Are You Doing With Your Life?
J. Krishnamurti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1899

What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
Ariela J. Gross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

What Came From the Stars
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

What Color Is Your Parachute
Richard Nelson Bolles

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1970

What Comes After
JoAnne Tompkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Comes Next and How to Like It
Abigail Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

What Does China Think?
Mark Leonard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What Does It Feel Like?
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What Does It Mean to Be White?
Robin DiAngelo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Whatever Happened to Janie
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

What Girls Are Made Of
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

What Happened at Midnight (The Hardy Boys, #10)
Franklin W. Dixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1931

What Happened Next
Edwin Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

What Happened to Goodbye
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

What Happened to Lani Garver
Carol Plum-Ucci

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

What Happened to Nina?
Dervla McTiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Claire Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

What Happens After Midnight
K.L. Walther

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What Happens at Night
Peter Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What Happens in Amsterdam
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

What Happens in London
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Happens in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What Hath God Wrought
Daniel Walker Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What Hearts
Bruce Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

What I Believe
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1884

What I Carry
Jennifer Longo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

What If It's Us
Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies)
Jeri Chase Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What I Loved
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

What I Remember Most
Cathy Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

What Is Art?
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1897

What I Saw And How I Lied
Judy Blundell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

What Is Color?
Steven Weinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

What Is History?
Edward Hallett Carr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

What Is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
Paul Nurse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

What Is Philosophy?
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

What Is Populism?
Jan-Werner Müller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016