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Warrior of the Light

Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Warrior Princess Assassin

Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Warrior's Heart

Jackie Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

War Storm

Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

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

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

We Don't Talk About Carol

Kristen L. Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

We Have Never Been Modern

Bruno Latour

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

We Hope for Better Things

Erin Bartels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Well, Actually

Mazey Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Well Met

Jen DeLuca

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

We Sold Our Souls

Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

West of Wicked

Nikki St. Crowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

We the Living

Ayn Rand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

We the Women

Norah O'Donnell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Does It Feel Like?

Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What Does It Mean to Be White?

Robin DiAngelo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Fury Brings

Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

What Happened

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

What Happened Next

Edwin Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

Claire Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Hearts

Bruce Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

What I Know For Sure

Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What Is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1897

What I Saw And How I Lied

Judy Blundell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

What Is Color?

Steven Weinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

What Is History?

Edward Hallett Carr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

What Is Populism?

Jan-Werner Müller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

What Is to Be Done?

Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902

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 Light

Jay Asher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

What Maisie Knew

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

Carole Radziwill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

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 She Saw

Mary Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Did to Survive

Megan Lally

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

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