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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

We Solve Murders
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Western Wind
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1500

West-Running Brook
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

West Side Story
Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

West with the Night
Beryl Markham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine
Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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

What Comes After
JoAnne Tompkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Rachel Riley?
Claire Swinarski

Nonfiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

What Hath God Wrought
Daniel Walker Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What Have You Done (Adler and Dwyer, #0.5)
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

What I Carry
Jennifer Longo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

What If It's Us
Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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 It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

What Kind of Paradise
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

What Lies Between Us
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Whatshisface
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

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 Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

What the Buddha Taught
Walpola Rahula

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2017

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Mona Hanna-Attisha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 River Knows
Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Bill Maher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

What to Say Next
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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 Are Looking For Is in the Library
Transl. Alison Watts, Michiko Aoyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

When All Is Said
Anne Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Giving is All We Have
Alberto Ríos

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Le Ly Hayslip

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

When I Consider How My Light is Spent
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

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 in Rome: A Novel
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993