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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
John W. Dower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

War with the Newts
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Watching You: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Watchmen
Illustr. Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 1986

Water By The Spoonful
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Waterland
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Waterlily
Ella Cara Deloria

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Wayside School is Falling Down
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Ways Of Seeing
John Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Are All Made of Molecules
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

We Are Called to Rise
Laura McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Displaced
Malala Yousafzai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018

We Are Not Free
Traci Chee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Are Not from Here
Jenny Torres Sanchez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Are Not Like Them
Jo Piazza, Christine Pride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are Not Responsible
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

We Are Okay
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

We Are the Ants
Shaun David Hutchinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

We Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success
Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins, Sharon M. Draper, Sampson Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2005

We Begin at the End
Chris Whitaker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966

We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wedding Poem
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

We Deserve Monuments
Jas Hammonds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

We Dream of Space
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Samra Habib

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

We Have Been Friends Together
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

We Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Welcome to Dead House
R. L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

Welding with Children
Tim Gautreaux

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

We Lived Happily During the War
Ilya Kaminsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

We'll Always Have Summer
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Wellness
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel
Lauren Grodstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

We never know how high we are
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

Wenjack
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2016

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

We're Not from Here
Geoff Rodkey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1940

We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarassingly, A True Story
Josh Sundquist

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Western Wind
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1500

West-Running Brook
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

West with the Night
Beryl Markham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

We The Animals
Justin Torres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were Here
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

We Were Never Here
Andrea Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Weyward
Emilia Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whales Weep Not!
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Do Women Want?
Kim Addonizio

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

What Hath God Wrought
Daniel Walker Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What I Carry
Jennifer Longo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

What If It's Us
Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1784

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1974

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

What Lies Between Us
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017