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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 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 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

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

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

Wolf Worm
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 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

Women Without Men
Shahrnūsh Pārsīʹpūr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Wonders of the Invisible World
Christopher Barzak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Woom
Duncan Ralston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Word Power Made Easy
Norman Lewis

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1949

Words in Deep Blue
Cath Crowley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Words in the Dust
Trent Reedy

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Words That Bind
Ash Krafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Frank Luntz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Workhorse
Caroline Palmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Working
Studs Terkel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Working with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Work Rules!
Laszlo Bock

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
Sam Carpenter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

World After
Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

World at War, 1944
Mary Pope Osborne, Illustr. Sal Murdocca

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

World Made by Hand
James Howard Kunstler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Worlds Collide (the Land of Stories, #6)
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Worry
Alexandra Tanner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024