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A Wagner Matinee
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Week in the Woods
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

A White Heron
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1886

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

A Wicker Basket
Robert Creeley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Wind In The Door
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

A Wish in the Dark
Christina Soontornvat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Illustr. Mónica Armiño

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Woman in Berlin
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy
Sonia Purnell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

A Woman on a Roof
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1963

A Work Of Artifice
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

A World In Disarray
Richard Haass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Worn Path
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Waiter’s Wife
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

The Wall
John Lanchester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

The Wanderings of Odysseus
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
Jamil Zaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The War I Finally Won
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Warmth Of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1898

The War Prayer
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

The Wars
Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The War With Grandpa
Robert Kimmel Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

The War Works Hard
Dunya Mikhail

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
Pat Conroy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Way I Used to Be
Amber Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Martha Beck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Ways of White Folks
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1969

The Way To Wealth
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1758

The Way We Live Now
Susan Sontag

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

The Wealth of Nations. The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1776

The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Weight of All Things
Sandra Benitez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Weight of Blood
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Weight of Ink
Rachel Kadish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

The Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

The Whisper Man
Alex North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Whispers
Ashley Audrain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Whistler
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The White Album
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The White Giraffe
Lauren St. John

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The White Goddess
Robert Graves

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1948

The White House
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

The White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Wicked King
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Wife Between Us
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wife Of His Youth
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

The Wife Upstairs
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Wild Robot
Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ed. Walter Kaufmann, Transl. R.J. Hollingdale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901

The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1908

The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami, Transl. Jay Rubin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Winners
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Winter Of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan W. Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Witch Elm
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Witches
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Wives
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Wives of the Dead
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1832

The Woman in Black
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Woman in Me
Britney Spears

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023