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When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Where the Line Bleeds
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Where They Found Her
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Where We Once Belonged
Sia Figiel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Whistling in the Dark
Tamara Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

White Dog
Peter Temple

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Whitegirl
Kate Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

White Houses
Amy Bloom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

White Lies
Jeremy Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

White Shark
Peter Benchley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

White Tears
Hari Kunzru

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Who Has Seen the Wind
W. O. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Whose Names Are Unknown
Sanora Babb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wild at Heart
Patricia Gaffney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Wild Decembers
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Wilde Lake
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Wings of Fire
Charles Todd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Winter Garden
Adele Ashworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Wise Children
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

W Is for Wasted
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Words That Bind
Ash Krafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Wrinkles
Charles Simmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

WWW: Wake
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Yellow Crocus
Laila Ibrahim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Yonnondio
Tillie Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

You Can't Stop Me
Max Allan Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

You Never Can Tell
Kathleen Eagle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Youngblood
Matt Gallagher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Young Jane Young
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Bebe Moore Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

You Were Wrong
Matthew Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

You Will Know Me
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Zeroboxer
Fonda Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Zero K
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Zuckerman Unbound
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981