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Velvet Was the Night
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Venus
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1593

Venus in Furs
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Verity
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
Don Martin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Vermeer's Hat
Timothy Brook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Veronika Decides To Die
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Verses upon the Burning of our House
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

V for Vendetta
Alan Moore

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Vicious
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Vicious
L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victorian Psycho
Virginia Feito

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Victory City
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2022

Video Blues
Mary Jo Salter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Vietgone
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
GB Tran

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Vigil
George Saunders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Villette
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Vineland
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Violeta
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Virgil Wander
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Volkswagen Blues
Jacques Poulin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Volpone
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

Vow of Thieves
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Voyage In The Dark
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Voyager
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Wage Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1848

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 for the Magic
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

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

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Peter A. Levine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

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 Games
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

War Horse
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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: A Life
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Girls
Susan Wiggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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