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The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Witch Elm
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Witches
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

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 Wives
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Wives of the Dead
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1832

The Wolves: A Play
Sarah DeLappe

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 2018

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 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 Window
A.J. Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

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 Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

The Women: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Wonder
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

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 Under the Words
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Working Poor: Invisible in America
David K. Shipler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1935

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 Meditation
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The World Is Too Much with Us
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

The Worldly Philosophers
Robert Heilbroner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1953

The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
Stefan Zweig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

The World on Turtle's Back
Iroquois Creation Myth

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1816

The World Played Chess
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The World We Make
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter #1
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Wright Brothers
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Writer
Richard Wilbur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

The Writing Life
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Writing Retreat
Julia Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wrong Family
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Wait
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

Waiting For Lefty
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Waiting for the Barbarians
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Wait Till Helen Comes
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Walden
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1854

Walker Brothers Cowboy
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1972

Walking Down Park
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Walking with the Wind
John Lewis, Mike D'Orso

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Walls Within Walls
Maureen Sherry, Adam Stower

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Wandering Stars: A Novel
Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

War
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Doris L. Bergen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Warcross
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Ward D
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

War Horse
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Warrior Girl Unearthed
Angeline Boulley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1994

War Stories
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
John W. Dower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

War with the Newts
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Watching You: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Watchmen
Alan Moore, Illustr. Dave Gibbons

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1986

Water By The Spoonful
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Waterland
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Waterlily
Ella Cara Deloria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Ways Of Seeing
John Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Called to Rise
Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014