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When Work Disappears
William Julius Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
Kimberly Willis Holt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

Where I Found You
Heidi R. Kling

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Where is the Mango Princess?
Cathy Crimmins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Where the Birds Never Sing
Jack Sacco

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Where the Jackals Howl
Amos Klausner

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Where the Line Bleeds
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1963

Where They Found Her
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Where Things Come Back
John Corey Whaley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Where We Once Belonged
Sia Figiel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

While the Locust Slept
Peter Razor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Whispers from the Dead
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Whistling in the Dark
Tamara Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Whistling Vivaldi
Claude Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

White Dog
Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Whitegirl
Kate Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

White Girl
Sylvia Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

White Houses
Amy Bloom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

White Lies
Jeremy Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

White Mughals
William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

White Shark
Peter Benchley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

White Tears
Hari Kunzru

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Who Has Seen the Wind
W. O. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Who Killed My Daughter
Lois Duncan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Who Put This Song On?
Morgan Parker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Whose Names Are Unknown
Sanora Babb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Who Will Write Our History?
Samuel D. Kassow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Does the World Exist?
Jim Holt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Why Football Matters
Mark Edmundson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Gender Matters
Leonard Sax

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Why I Like Country Music
James Alan McPherson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

Why People Believe Weird Things
Michael Shermer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Why We Do What We Do
Richard Flaste, Edward L. Deci

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Wilbur and Orville
Fred Howard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Wild at Heart
Patricia Gaffney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Wild Decembers
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Wilde Lake
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Wild Geese
Caroline Pignat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Wild Man Island
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Wilfred Owen
Jon Stallworthy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1795

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green, David Levithan

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 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

Wind, Sand, and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Wine of Wyoming
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

Wine To Water
Doc Hendley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Wings of Fire
Charles Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Winner Takes All
Christina Binkley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Winter Garden
Adele Ashworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Winter of the World
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Winter Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Wise Children
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Witch and Wizard
Gabrielle Charbonnet, James Patterson

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

Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

With You and Without You
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 in White Van
John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolf Totem
Rong Jiang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wolf Winter
Cecilia Ekbäck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Woman Walking Ahead
Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Wonders of the Invisible World
Christopher Barzak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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

Working with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Woyzeck
Georg Büchner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1837

Wrinkles
Charles Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Writing My Wrongs
Shaka Senghor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Writing New York
Phillip Lopate

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1974

Writing to Save a Life
John Edgar Wideman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

WWW: Wake
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Yellow Crocus
Laila Ibrahim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Yes Please
Amy Poehler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Yonnondio
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

York Mystery Plays
York Mystery Plays

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013