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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
Meg Kissinger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Whirligig
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Whiskey Tender
Deborah Jackson Taffa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Whisper Network
Chandler Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Whistling Past the Graveyard
Susan Crandall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

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 Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.)
Shelby Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

White Is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

White Lilacs
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Matthew Frye Jacobson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1848

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 Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

White Smoke
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Whittington
Alan Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

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 Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Who Is Maud Dixon?
Alexandra Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Whose cheek is this?
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

Who's Irish?
Gish Jen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Who Understands Me but Me
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Who Was King Tut
Roberta Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Bonnie Bader, Illustr. Elizabeth Wolf

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Who Was Neil Armstrong?
Roberta Edwards

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Who Was Walt Disney
Whitney Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

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
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

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 Card
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Reverence
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

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

Willa of the Wood
Robert Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Willodeen
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Will's Race for Home
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

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 Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Winter In The Blood
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974