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What Hath God Wrought
Daniel Walker Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1784

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1974

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Bill Maher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

When Broken Glass Floats
Chanrithy Him

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

When China Ruled the Seas
Louise Levathes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

When the Night Comes Falling
Howard Blum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

When They Call You a Terrorist
Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Where Do We Go From Here
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Where We Stand: Class Matters
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Whiskey Tender
Deborah Jackson Taffa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
Ian Haney-López

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

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

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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'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 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

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Anna Funder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Wilderness and the American Mind
Roderick Nash

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Will
Will Smith, Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Wisdom Sits in Places
Keith H. Basso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

With the Old Breed
Eugene Sledge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Wooden On Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
John Wooden

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
John Trimble

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Yanomamo: The Fierce People
Napoleon Chagnon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit
Leslie Marmon Silko

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Zeitoun
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000