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What Do Women Want?
Kim Addonizio

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What If It's Us
Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1784

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1974

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

What Men Live By
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

What mystery pervades a well!
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

What Night Brings
Carla Trujillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Peter Hedges

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

What She Knew
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What's Mine and Yours
Naima Coster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Soft — Cherubic Creatures
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Teachers Make
Taylor Mali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What the Fireflies Knew
Kai Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What the Living Do
Marie Howe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852

What We All Long For
Dionne Brand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

What Work Is
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

When Broken Glass Floats
Chanrithy Him

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

When China Ruled the Seas
Louise Levathes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

When Crickets Cry: a Novel of the Heart
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

When Dawn Comes to the City
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

When Death Comes
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

When I Consider How My Light is Spent
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1848

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

When I Was the Greatest
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

When Stars Are Scattered
Omar Mohamed, Victoria Jamieson

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

When the Apricots Bloom
Gina Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

When the Elephants Dance
Tess Uriza Holthe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

When There Were Ghosts
Alberto Ríos

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

When the Stars Go Dark
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

When the World as We Knew It Ended
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

When We Collided
Emery Lord

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

When We Two Parted
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

When Women Were Dragons
Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966

WHEREAS
Layli Long Soldier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Where She Went
Gayle Forman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Glendy Vanderah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Where the Heart Is
Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Where The Mountain Meets The Moon
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1961

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

While Justice Sleeps
Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Whirligig
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Whisper Network
Chandler Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

White Angel
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

White Bird: A Wonder Story
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
Ian Haney-López

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

White Fang
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1906

White Is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

White Noise
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

White Oleander
Janet Fitch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1989

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998