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Winter Dreams
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

Winter Garden
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Winter In The Blood
James Welch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Wirers
Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Wisdom Sits in Places
Keith H. Basso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Wish
Barbara O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

wishes for sons
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Wishtree
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Wish You Well
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Wish You Were Here
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Witchlings
Claribel A. Ortega

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Within Arm's Reach
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Without Merit
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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

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 for the Prosecution
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

Woke Up Like This
Amy Lea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wolf by Wolf
Ryan Graudin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1975

Woman Hollering Creek
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1991

Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

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

Women
Alice Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Women In Love
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Women of Trachis
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

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

Wonder
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick

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

Woodchucks
Maxine Kumin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

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

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

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 of Mouse
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Word Processor of the Gods
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Words on Bathroom Walls
Julia Walton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Words on Fire
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Works and Days
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

World Without End
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

World Without Fish
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Worst Case Scenario
T. J. Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Wrecked
Maria Padian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Wreck the Halls: A Novel
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Wringer
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Writers and Lovers
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
John Trimble

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Written On The Body
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Wrong Place Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Wuthering Heights
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961