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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 on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
Peter Wolf

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Walden On Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Ken Ilgunas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

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

Want to Know a Secret?
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

War
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

War
Bob Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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

War Brothers
Sharon McKay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

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

Watch Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

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

Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

Waverider
Kazu Kibuishi

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

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

Way of the Warrior Kid
Jocko Willink, Illustr. Jon Bozak

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Wayside School is Falling Down
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

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 Live Here
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 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 Family
Andrea Williams, LeBron James

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

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 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 Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Weasel
Cynthia DeFelice

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

We Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success
Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, 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 Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle, Abby Wambach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Deserve Monuments
Jas Hammonds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

We Do Not Part
Han Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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

Welcome to Dead House
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

Welding with Children
Tim Gautreaux

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

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

Wellness
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel
Lauren Grodstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Wenjack
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Shall Fight on the Beaches
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1940

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