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Wandering Stars: A Novel
Tommy Orange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Ward D
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

War with the Newts
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Watching You: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Are Called to Rise
Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Wellness
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel
Lauren Grodstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Wenjack
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2016

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Weyward
Emilia Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

What Night Brings
Carla Trujillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

What She Knew
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What's Mine and Yours
Naima Coster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What the Fireflies Knew
Kai Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What We All Long For
Dionne Brand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

When All Is Said
Anne Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When Crickets Cry: a Novel of the Heart
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

When the Apricots Bloom
Gina Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

When the Elephants Dance
Tess Uriza Holthe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

When the Stars Go Dark
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel
Barbara O'Neal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut, Transl. Adrian Nathan West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When We Left Cuba
Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

When Women Were Dragons
Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Where's Molly
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Glendy Vanderah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Where the Heart Is
Billie Letts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

While Justice Sleeps
Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Whisper Network
Chandler Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

White Is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

White Noise
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Winter In The Blood
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Wish You Well
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wish You Were Here
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Without Merit
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Woke Up Like This
Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1975

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 Talking
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Wool
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

World Without End
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Writers and Lovers
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Written On The Body
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Wrong Place Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Xala
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Yellowface
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Yellow Wife
Sadeqa Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You
Caroline Kepnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

You'll Be the Death of Me
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Yours Truly
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

You Shouldn't Have Come Here
Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023