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A Walk Across The Sun
Corban Addison

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
Alex La Guma

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Walk on the Great Barrier Reef
Caroline Arnold

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

A War Like No Other
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Week in the Woods
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Whole New Life
Reynolds Price

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Wilderness Within
David Backes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

A Wild Swan
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Winter's Tale
Ian Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Woman on a Roof
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A World Made New
Mary Ann Glendon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

The Waiting Years
Fumiko Enchi

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wall
Marlen Haushofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wallcreeper
Nell Zink

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Walls Around Us
Nova Ren Suma

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Wanderer
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Wandering Falcon
Jamil Ahmad

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wangs vs. the World
Jade Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wapshot Chronicle
John Cheever

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The War Between the Classes
Gloria D. Miklowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Warden
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Warrior Heir
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | YA

The War That Ended Peace
Margaret MacMillan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wasted Vigil
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Water Will Come
Jeff Goodell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Waterworks
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wave
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Waves
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
Alice Walker

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

The Way of the World
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Way Up To Heaven
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Way We Live Now
Elizabeth Osborn

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Weather Makers
Tim Flannery

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Wedding
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wedding Gift
Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Weight of Silence
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Weirdo
Theodore Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Well and the Mine
Gin Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Whiskey Rebels
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Whispering Room
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Bone
Barbara Gowdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Boy Shuffle
Paul Beatty

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Castle
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean

Fiction | Novel | YA

The White Devil
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult

The White Giraffe
Lauren St. John

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The White Hotel
D.M. Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White King
György Dragomán

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Lie
Andrea Gillies

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Mountains
John Christopher

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The White Raven
Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wide Window
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Wife of Martin Guerre
Janet Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wild Boy of Aveyron
Harlan Lane

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Wind Singer
William Nicholson

Fiction | Novel | YA

The Wings of the Dove
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Winner
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Winner Stands Alone
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Winter King
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Winter People
John Ehle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Winter Room
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Witch Elm
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Witches of Worm
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

The Witch of Edmonton
Thomas Dekker

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Withered Arm and Other Stories
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

The Woman Behind the New Deal
Kirstin Downey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Woman in Black
Susan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Woman in the Dunes
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Bob Shacochis

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Women
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Women in the Castle
Jessica Shattuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Women's Room
Marilyn French

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Wonders of the Invisible World
David Gates

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

The Words
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

The Words to Say It
Marie Cardinal

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Work
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Work of Wolves
Kent Meyers

Fiction | Novel | Adult