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Wish You Well
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wish You Were Here
Rita Mae Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Wish You Were Mine
Tara Sivec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Witch and Wizard
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Witch Child
Celia Rees

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Lyndal Roper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Witches' Loaves
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn #1)
Sophie Escabasse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Witches of East End
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Witch King
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
C.L. Polk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Wither
Lauren DeStefano

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

With Everything I Am
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Withholding Evidence (Evidence, #3)
Rachel Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Within a Painted Past
Hazel Hutchins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Within Reach: My Everest Story
Mark Pfetzer, Jack Galvin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Without Merit
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Without My Cloak (Virago Modern Classics)
Kate O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Without Remorse
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

With the Old Breed
Eugene Sledge

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

With You and Without You
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

With You Forever
Chloe Liese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Witness
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

Witness in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wittgenstein’s Mistress
David Markson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 (The Dark Tower, #4)
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Woken Furies
Richard K. Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Woke Up Like This
Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 by Wolf
Ryan Graudin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wolf Gone Wild
Juliette Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Wolf Hollow (Lew Ferris, #1)
Victoria Houston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wolfhunter River
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolf Pack
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wolfsbane
Andrea Cremer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1)
T. J. Klune, T.J. Klune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wolf-Speaker
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Wolf Totem
Rong Jiang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Wolf Willow
Wallace Stegner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Wolf Winter
Cecilia Ekbäck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wolverine: Old Man Logan
Mark Millar, Steve McNiven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1975

Woman in the Dark
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman on Fire
Lisa Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Woman Walking Ahead
Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Women
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Women and Economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Women Beware Women (Drama Classics)
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Florence Given

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Women In Love
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Women of Trachis
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Women & Power: A Manifesto
Mary Beard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Women's Hotel
Daniel M. Lavery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Women Talking
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Wonder
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Wonderland
Zoje Stage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Wonders of the Invisible World
Christopher Barzak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2011

Wonder When You'll Miss Me
Amanda Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Wondrous Strange (Wondrous Strange, #1)
Lesley Livingston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden, Steve Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Wooden On Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
John Wooden

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
Arthur S. Link

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Woodsong
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Wool
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Word Nerd
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Words By Heart
Ouida Sebestyen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997