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Vampire High

Douglas Rees

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Vanishing Treasures

Katherine Rundell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Vanka

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1886

Varina

Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Veiled Court

C. N. Crawford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Veil of Roses

Laura Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Venetian Vespers

John Banville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Vengeful

Victoria Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Vera (mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Vera, or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Vernon God Little

D.B.C. Pierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Vertigo

Joanna Walsh

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Very Valentine

Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Vesper Flights

Helen Macdonald

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Victoria

Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Victorious

V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Victory

Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Video

Yvonne Spielmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

View From the East Wing

Jill Biden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Viking Ships at Sunrise

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Vinegar Girl

Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Violence Over the Land

Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning

Danette Haworth

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Violets Are Blue

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Violets Are Blue

Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore

Emily Krempholtz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Virgil

Steve Orlando

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

Lyndall Gordon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

Virgin River

Robyn Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Virtual Light

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

V is for Vengeance

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Visible Worlds

Marilyn Bowering

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Visit Sunny Chernobyl

Andrew Blackwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Visual Intelligence

Amy E. Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Visual Thinking

Temple Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Vladimir

Julia May Jonas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Voices in the City

Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Voices of Protest

Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Vox

Christina Dalcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Voyeur

Daniel Judson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Wabi Sabi

Beth Kempton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Wahala

Nikki May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wait for You

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Waiting

Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Waiting for an Angel

Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Waiting for Normal

Leslie Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Carlos Eire

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Waiting for the Rain

Sheila Gordon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

Peniel E. Joseph

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Waking Gods

Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Waking Lions

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Waking Up White

Debby Irving

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Walden Two

B. F. Skinner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Walkaway

Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Walking Disaster

Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Walking Since Daybreak

Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Walking With Sam

Andrew McCarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Walk in My Combat Boots

Matt Eversmann, James Patterson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Walkin' the Dog

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Walk in Their Shoes

Jim Ziolkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Walk On Earth A Stranger

Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Walk the Blue Fields

Claire Keegan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2007

Walk the Blue Line

Matt Eversmann, Chris Mooney, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Walk the Wire

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Walk Through Walls

Marina Abramović

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Wall and Piece

Banksy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song

Jim Perlman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

War and Turpentine

Stefan Hertmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Warbreaker

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

War Comes to Willy Freeman

James Lincoln Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

War Dances

Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

War for the Oaks

Emma Bull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Warlock

Oakley Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Warning Signs

Tracy Sierra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

War of a Thousand Deserts

Brian Delay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Warriors of the Storm

Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

War Storm

Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

War's Unwomanly Face

Svetlana Alexievich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

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

Watch Your Back

Tate James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Waterfall

Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom

Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020