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A Walk Across The Sun
Corban Addison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
Alex La Guma

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1962

A Walk on the Great Barrier Reef
Caroline Arnold

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

A War Like No Other
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

A Whole New Life
Reynolds Price

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

A Wilderness Within
David Backes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

A Wild Swan
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Winter's Tale
Ian Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1617

A World Made New
Mary Ann Glendon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2001

The Waiting Years
Fumiko Enchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Wall
Marlen Haushofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Wallcreeper
Nell Zink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Walls Around Us
Nova Ren Suma

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Wanderer
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Wandering Falcon
Jamil Ahmad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Wangs vs. the World
Jade Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The War Between the Classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

The Warden
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1855

The Warrior Heir
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The War That Ended Peace
Margaret MacMillan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The War to End All Wars: World War I
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Wasted Vigil
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Charles Kingsley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1863

The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Water Will Come
Jeff Goodell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Waterworks
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

The Way We Live Now
Elizabeth Osborn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2022

The Weather Makers
Tim Flannery

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Wedding
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Wedding Gift
Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

The Weight of Silence
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Weirdo
Theodore Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Well and the Mine
Gin Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Whiskey Rebels
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Whispering Room
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The White Bone
Barbara Gowdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The White Boy Shuffle
Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The White Castle
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The White Devil
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1612

The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The White King
György Dragomán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The White Lie
Andrea Gillies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The White Raven
Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Wide Window
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Wife of Martin Guerre
Janet Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Wild Boy of Aveyron
Harlan Lane

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1884

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Wind Singer
William Nicholson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Wings of the Dove
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Winner
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Winner Stands Alone
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1946

The Winter People
John Ehle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Winter Room
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Witches of Worm
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

The Withered Arm and Other Stories
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1888

The Woman Behind the New Deal
Kirstin Downey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Bob Shacochis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Women
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Women in the Castle
Jessica Shattuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Women's Room
Marilyn French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Wonders of the Invisible World
David Gates

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Words
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

The Words to Say It
Marie Cardinal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Work
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Work of Wolves
Kent Meyers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The World Made Straight
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The World Turned Upside Down
Richard Ferrie

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

The World Until Yesterday
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Wrath and the Dawn
Renee Ahdieh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Wreckers
Iain Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Wright 3
Blue Balliett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

The Wrong Mother
Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

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

Waking Gods
Sylvain Neuvel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Waking Lions
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Fiction | Novel | 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

Walking Since Daybreak
Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

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