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The Wrong Mother
Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Waiting
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Waiting for an Angel
Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Waiting for Normal
Leslie Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Waiting for Snow in Havana
Carlos Eire

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Waiting for the Rain
Sheila Gordon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Waking Gods
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Waking Lions
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Waking Up White
Debby Irving

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Walden Two
B. F. Skinner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Walking Since Daybreak
Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Walkin' the Dog
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Walk in Their Shoes
Jim Ziolkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Walk On Earth A Stranger
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wall and Piece
Banksy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song
Jim Perlman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

War and Turpentine
Stefan Hertmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

War Comes to Willy Freeman
James Lincoln Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

War Dances
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

War of a Thousand Deserts
Brian Delay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Warrior Princess Assassin
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Warrior's Heart
Jackie Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wartime Lies
Louis Begley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

War Trash
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wasted
Marya Hornbacher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Watchers
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Watching Over Her
Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Luke Whisnant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Watch Me Disappear
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Waterfall
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Ways of Dying
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ways to Live Forever
Sally Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Wayward
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We All Fall Down
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Weaponized Lies
Daniel J. Levitin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Water
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Weather
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Band of Angels
Elizabeth M. Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Weeping Under This Same Moon
Jana Laiz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Weep Not, Child
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Weetzie Bat
Francesca Lia Block

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

We Gon' Be Alright
Jeff Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Welcome to Braggsville
T. Geronimo Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Welcome to My Country
Laklak Burarrwanga

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
Fannie Flagg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

We Play a Game
Duy Doan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

We Shall Overcome
Debbie Levy

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Wesley the Owl
Stacey O'Brien

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

West of Kabul, East of New York
Tamim Ansary

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

West of the Revolution
Claudio Saunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

We the Living
Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

What Are People For?
Wendell Berry

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1990

What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

What Color Is Your Parachute
Richard Nelson Bolles

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1970

What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Whatever Happened to Janie
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

What Happened to Goodbye
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

What Happened to Lani Garver
Carol Plum-Ucci

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

What Happened to Nina?
Dervla McTiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What I Saw And How I Lied
Judy Blundell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

What Is Populism?
Jan-Werner Müller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

What is Visible
Kimberly Elkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

What Maisie Knew
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

What's Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

What's Cooking
Burt Wolf

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

What She Left Me
Judy Doenges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

What Stands in a Storm
Kim Cross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

What the CEO Wants You to Know: Using Business Acumen to Understand How Your Company Really Works
Ram Charan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
Barbara Butcher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

What the Moon Saw
Laura Resau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What This Cruel War Was Over
Chandra Manning

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

What to Listen for in Music
Aaron Copland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

What Was Promised
Tobias Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

What We Lost
Dale Peck

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

What We Saw
Aaron Hartzler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

What Will People Say?
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What You Have Heard Is True
Carolyn Forché

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

When and Where I Enter
Paula Giddings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

When Books Went To War
Molly Guptill Manning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

When China Rules the World
Martin Jacques

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back
Naja Marie Aidt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

When Everything Changed
Gail Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

When Friendship Followed Me Home
Paul Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016