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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 Happens After Midnight

K.L. Walther

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What Happens at Night

Peter Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What Happens in Amsterdam

Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Life?

Erwin Schrödinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

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 I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

Kristin Newman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

What Light

Jay Asher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

What Lives in the Woods

Lindsay Currie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

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's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Jean Fritz

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

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

Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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 the Wife Knew

Darby Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What This Cruel War Was Over

Chandra Manning

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

What to Expect When You're Expecting

Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1984

What to Listen for in Music

Aaron Copland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

What to Make of a Life

Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself

Shad Helmstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

What Was Promised

Tobias Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We Lose

Zinzi Clemmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

What We Lost

Dale Peck

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

What We Owe the Future

William MacAskill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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

When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back

Naja Marie Aidt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 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 Mckinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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 There Are No More Stars Left to Count

María Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

When the Reckoning Comes

LaTanya McQueen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Stones Speak

Doron Spielman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

When the Tides Held the Moon

Venessa Vida Kelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

When Trees Testify

Beronda L. Montgomery

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Meet Again

Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

When We Ride

Rex Ogle

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2025