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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

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

When God was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When God Whispers Your Name
Max Lucado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

When He Was Wicked
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

When I Found You
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

When I Kill You
B. A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

When It Happens
Susane Colasanti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

When I Was a Soldier
Valérie Zenatti

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away
Rámon A. Gutiérrez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

When Never Comes
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, Aids
James Cross Giblin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1995

When Pride Still Mattered
David Maraniss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

When She Woke
Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When Smoke Ran Like Water
Devra Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

When the Bones Sing
Ginny Myers Sain

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

When the Day Comes
Gabrielle Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When the Killing's Done
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When the Legends Die
Hal Borland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

When the Moon is Low
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

When the Rivers Run Dry
Fred Pearce

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Daniel H. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

When the Tides Held the Moon
Venessa Vida Kelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

When Truth Is All You Have
Jim McCloskey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

When We Dead Awaken
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1899

When We Were Birds
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When We Were the Kennedys
Monica Wood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

When We Were Vikings
Andrew David MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

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 You Disappeared
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
Kimberly Willis Holt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Air Is Clear
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

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 Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Come From
Oscar Cásares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Whispers of You
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whispers Underground
Ben Aaronovitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Whistling in the Dark
Tamara Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Whistling Vivaldi
Claude Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

White Butterfly
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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 Hot Kiss: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

White Houses
Amy Bloom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

White Ivy
Susie Yang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

White Tears/brown Scars
Ruby Hamad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Who Are We?
Samuel P. Huntington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Didn't They Ask Evans
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

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 Marriages Succeed or Fail
John M. Gottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Why Men Love Bitches
Sherry Argov

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Why People Believe Weird Things
Michael Shermer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Why We Act
Catherine A. Sanderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Wicked Beauty
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wicked Lovely
Melissa Marr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Wicked Onyx
Debbie Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Widow's Point
Richard Chizmar, W. H. Chizmar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wilbur and Orville
Fred Howard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Wild and Wrangled
Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Wild at Heart
Patricia Gaffney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Wild Darling
Alexandra Moody

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026