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Winterset Hollow

Jonathan Edward Durham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter's Heart

Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Winter Solstice

Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Winter Solstice

Rosamunde Pilcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Winter’s Orbit

Everina Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Winter's Tale

Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

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

Wiseguy

Nicholas Pileggi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

W Is for Wasted

Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wisteria

Adalyn Grace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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

Wither

Lauren DeStefano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

With Love, From Cold World

Alicia Thompson

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 Remorse

Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Without You, There Is No Us

Suki Kim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

With Winning in Mind

Lanny Bassham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

With You and Without You

Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Witness 8

Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Witness in Death

Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Wives Like Us

Plum Sykes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Wizard's First Rule

Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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.E

Paisley Hope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wolf Hour

Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

Abby Wambach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Wolf Totem

Rong Jiang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wolf Winter

Cecilia Ekbäck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolves of the Calla

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Woman, Eating

Claire Kohda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman Evolve

Sarah Jakes Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Woman Walking Ahead

Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Womb City

Tlotlo Tsamaase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Women

Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Women and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1898

Women Don't Owe You Pretty

Florence Given

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Women, Food and God

Geneen Roth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

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 & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Women We Buried, Women We Burned

Rachel Louise Snyder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Wonderland

Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Wonders of the Invisible World

Christopher Barzak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Wonder Woman: Warbringer

Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

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

Studs Terkel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Working with Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Work Rules!

Laszlo Bock

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Sam Carpenter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

World After

Susan Ee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

World at War, 1944

Mary Pope Osborne, Illustr. Sal Murdocca

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

World Made by Hand

James Howard Kunstler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Worlds Collide

Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Worth

A. LaFaye

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Worth Dying For

Tim Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Worth Fighting For

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Worthy

Jada Pinkett Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Wrath

John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wreckage

Emily Bleeker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Wretched

Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wrinkles

Charles Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Write for Your Life

Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Written in the Stars

Alexandria Bellefleur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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