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The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The White Mountains
John Christopher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wicked King
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

The Wide Window
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Widows of Malabar Hill
Sujata Massey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wife Between Us
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wife Of His Youth
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Wife Upstairs
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wife Upstairs
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Swans at Coole
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

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-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 Winemaker's Wife
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Winged Watchman
Hilda van Stockum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The Winners
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Winter King
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Winter Of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

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'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 Wish
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
India Holton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 of New York
Ami McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Witching Hour
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

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

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 Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

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 in White
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

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

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 Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2024

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 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 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 Best Man
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Worst Class Trip Ever
Dave Barry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

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 Wren, the Wren
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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