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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

Dan Kainen, Kathy Wollard

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

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

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 People

Michelle Wildgen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

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 Garden

Adele Ashworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Winterhouse

Ben Guterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

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

Winterset Hollow

Jonathan Edward Durham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter Solstice

Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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

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

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 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 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 Hour

Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Wolf Worm

T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1898

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 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 with Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Sam Carpenter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Worth

A. LaFaye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Worth Fighting For

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

Jamie Kern Lima

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Wounded

Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Woven in Moonlight

Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Woyzeck

Georg Büchner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1837

Wretched

Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wrinkles

Charles Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

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

Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

WWW: Wake

Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wylding Hall

Elizabeth Hand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Yearbook

Seth Rogen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

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