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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 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 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

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

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

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

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

War Horse
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1994

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

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

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

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

We Are Displaced
Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

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 Responsible
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

We Are Okay
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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 Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966

We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wedding Poem
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

We Dream of Space
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

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 Been Friends Together
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

We Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

We Lived Happily During the War
Ilya Kaminsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

We'll Always Have Summer
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

We never know how high we are
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

We're Not from Here
Geoff Rodkey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Western Wind
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1500

West-Running Brook
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

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 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 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

Whales Weep Not!
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009