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When We See You Again
Rachel Goldberg-Polin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Are the Children?
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Where Eagles Dare
Alistair MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

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 Keep the Light
Josh Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Where We Once Belonged
Sia Figiel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Where Wild Peaches Grow
Cade Bentley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Where Wolves Don't Die
Anton Treuer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Whidbey
T Kira Madden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

While the Locust Slept
Peter Razor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

While We Were Dating
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Who Goes There?
John Wood Campbell

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

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 Needs Friends
Andrew McCarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Who Put This Song On?
Morgan Parker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Whose Names Are Unknown
Sanora Babb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Who Will Cry When You Die?
Robin Sharma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

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 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 We Swim
Bonnie Tsui

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

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 Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Adrienne Brodeur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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