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Wilde Lake
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wild: Endangered Animals in Living Motion
Dan Kainen, Kathy Wollard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Wildflower
Drew Barrymore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Adrienne Brodeur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Wild Geese
Caroline Pignat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Wild Houses
Colin Barrett

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2024

Wild Magic
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Wild Man Island
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Wild Women and the Blues
Denny S. Bryce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wildwood Creek
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wilfred Owen
Jon Stallworthy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
David Levithan, John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1864

William Shakespeare
Terry Eagleton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

William Tell
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1804

William Wilson
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1839

Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Will There Ever Be Another You
Patricia Lockwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1976

Win
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wind Daughter
Joanna Ruth Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Window on the Bay
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wind, Sand, and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Windy Night With Wild Horses
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Wine of Wyoming
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

Wine People
Michelle Wildgen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wine To Water
Doc Hendley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Win Every Argument
Mehdi Hasan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Wings of Fire
Charles Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Winner Takes All
Christina Binkley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Winning
Tim S. Grover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Winning With People: Discover the People Principles That Work for You Every Time
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Winter
Ali Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Winter Garden
Adele Ashworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Winter Lost
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Winter of the Ice Wizard
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Winter of the World
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Winter Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Winterset Hollow
Jonathan Edward Durham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter's Heart
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Winter Solstice
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Winter Solstice
Rosamunde Pilcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Winter’s Orbit
Everina Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Winter Storms
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Winter Street
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Winter Turning
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Lisa Cron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Wise Children
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Wiseguy
Nicholas Pileggi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wisteria
Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Witch and Wizard
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Witch Child
Celia Rees

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Witch King
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wither
Lauren DeStefano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

With Love, From Cold World
Alicia Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

With Love From Harlem
Reshonda Tate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Without Consent
Sarah Weinman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Without Fail
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
Keisha N. Blain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Without Remorse
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

With Winning in Mind
Lanny Bassham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

With You and Without You
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Witness 8
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Witness in Death
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Wives Like Us
Plum Sykes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wizard and Glass
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Wolf at the Table
Adam Rapp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Wolf by the Ears
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Wolf.E
Paisley Hope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wolf Hour
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
Abby Wambach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Wolf Totem
Rong Jiang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wolf Winter
Cecilia Ekbäck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman Evolve
Sarah Jakes Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Woman Walking Ahead
Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Womb City
Tlotlo Tsamaase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Women
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Women and Economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1898

Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Florence Given

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Women, Food and God
Geneen Roth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Olivia Campbell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
Jen Wilkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Women & Power: A Manifesto
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017