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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Why Fish Don't Exist
Lulu Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Julie Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Why I Am Not a Christian
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1927

Why I Live at the P.O.
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why I Write
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
Paco Underhill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Why We Crave Horror Movies
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1981

Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Anna Funder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Wild Bees
James K. Baxter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

Wild Bird
Wendelin Van Draanen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wilderness and the American Mind
Roderick Nash

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Wild Eyes
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wildfire
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Wildfire
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Wild Love
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wild Nights Wild Nights
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Wildoak
C. C. Harrington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Wild Side
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Wild Wings
Gill Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wildwood
Colin Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Wildwood
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Will
Will Smith, Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Willodeen
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Wind
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wind from an Enemy Sky
D'Arcy Mcnickle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Wind, Water, Stone
Octavio Paz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1919

Winger
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Wingfoot Lake
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Wink
Rob Harrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1926

Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Craig Groeschel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1994

Winter Dreams
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Winter In The Blood
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wirers
Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Wisdom Sits in Places
Keith H. Basso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Wish
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

wishes for sons
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Wishtree
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Wish You Well
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wish You Were Here
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Witchlings
Claribel A. Ortega

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Within Arm's Reach
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Robert Hare

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Without Merit
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

With the Old Breed
Eugene Sledge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Witness
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

Witness for the Prosecution
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

Woke Up Like This
Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wolf by Wolf
Ryan Graudin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1975

Woman Hollering Creek
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman on Fire
Lisa Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Women
Alice Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Women In Love
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Women of Trachis
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Pipher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Women Talking
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change
Robin Norwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Wonder
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Woodchucks
Maxine Kumin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden, Steve Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997