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Warcross
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

War Dances
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Ward D
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

War Horse
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

War of a Thousand Deserts
Brian Delay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

War of the Twins
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Warrior Fae
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Warrior Girl Unearthed
Angeline Boulley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Warrior of the Light
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1994

Warrior's Heart
Jackie Kramer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Warriors of the Storm
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

War Stories
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

War Storm
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

War's Unwomanly Face
Richard Pevear, Svetlana Alexievich, Larissa Volokhonsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Wartime Lies
Louis Begley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

War Trash
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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: A Life
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Watchers
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Luke Whisnant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Watching You: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Watch Me Disappear
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Watchmen
Alan Moore, Illustr. Dave Gibbons

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

Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Watch Us Rise
Ellen Hagan, Renée Watson

Fiction | Poem | Published in 2019

Water By The Spoonful
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Waterfall
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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

Watermelon
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

Water's Wrath
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Waylander
David Gemmell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ways of Dying
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ways Of Seeing
John Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Way Station
Clifford D. Simak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Wayward
Chuck Wendig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wayward Son
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

We All Fall Down
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

We All Looked Up
Tommy Wallach

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Weaponized Lies
Daniel J. Levitin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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 All the Same in the Dark
Julia Heaberlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Legion (We Are Bob)
Dennis E. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Are Not Ourselves
Matthew Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Are Okay
Nina LaCour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

We Are Seven
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

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 Are Water
Wally Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Weasel
Cynthia DeFelice

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Weather
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Weather Girl
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Weaveworld
Clive Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Band of Angels
Elizabeth M. Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Begin at the End
Chris Whitaker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Web of Lies
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Wedding Night
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

We Dream of Space
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Weeping Under This Same Moon
Jana Laiz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Weep Not, Child
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Weetzie Bat
Francesca Lia Block

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

We Free the Stars
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

We Gon' Be Alright
Jeff Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Welcome to Braggsville
T. Geronimo Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Welcome to My Country
Laklak Burarrwanga

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2021

Welcome to Night Vale
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015