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The Wives
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Wives of the Dead
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1832

The Wolves: A Play
Sarah DeLappe

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 2018

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The Woman in Black
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Woman in Me
Britney Spears

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Woman in the Dunes
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Woman in the Library
Sulari Gentill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The Woman of Colour: A Tale
Ed. Lyndon J. Dominique, Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

The Woman's Hour
Elaine Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Kate Moore

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

The Women: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wonder
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

The Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2024

The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Woods
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1972

The Word is Murder
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Words Under the Words
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Working Poor: Invisible in America
David K. Shipler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1935

The World According To Garp
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The World According to Humphrey
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The World as Meditation
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

The World Beyond Your Head
Matthew B. Crawford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The World Is Too Much with Us
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

The Worldly Philosophers
Robert Heilbroner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1953

The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
Stefan Zweig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

The World on Turtle's Back
Iroquois Creation Myth

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1816

The World Played Chess
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The World We Make
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Worst Best Man
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Worst Class Trip Ever
Dave Barry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter #1
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Wren, the Wren
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Wright Brothers
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Writer
Richard Wilbur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

The Writing Life
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Writing Retreat
Julia Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wrong Family
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

They Cage the Animals at Night
Jennings Michael Burch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

They Called Us Enemy
George Takei

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2019

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

They Don't Love You Like I Love You
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Year of Miss Agnes
Kirkpatrick Hill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Year of the Dog
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Year We Disappeared
Cylin Busby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Yellow Birds
Kevin Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

They Feed They Lion
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

The Yield: A Novel
Tara June Winch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

They Never Learn
Layne Fargo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Young Elites
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Young Housewife
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Young Landlords
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

The Young Man and the Sea
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Alphonsion Deng

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

They Went Left
Monica Hesse

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Thicker than Water: A Memoir
Kerry Washington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Thief River Falls
Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Things Not Seen
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Things We Carry on the Sea
Wang Ping

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Things We Do in the Dark
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Things We Hide From the Light
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Things We Left Behind
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Things We Lost to the Water
Eric Nguyen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Things We Never Got Over
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Things You Save in a Fire
Katherine Center

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1937

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism
Temple Grandin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Avinash K. Dixit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014