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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Simu Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were Here
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

We Were Never Here
Andrea Bartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Weyward
Emilia Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whalefall
Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Whale Fall
Elizabeth O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Whales on Stilts (Pals in Peril, #1)
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

What About Will
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2021

What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

What Color Is Your Parachute
Richard Nelson Bolles

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1970

What Comes After
JoAnne Tompkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What Comes Next and How to Like It
Abigail Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

What Does China Think?
Mark Leonard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Whatever Happened to Janie
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

What Girls Are Made Of
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

What Happened to Goodbye
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

What Happened to Lani Garver
Carol Plum-Ucci

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

What Happened to the Bennetts
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What Happens After Midnight
K.L. Walther

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

What Happens in London
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What Hath God Wrought
Daniel Walker Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What I Believe
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

What I Carry
Jennifer Longo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

What If It's Us
Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What I Loved
Siri Hustvedt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

What I Remember Most
Cathy Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

What Is Art?
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

What I Saw And How I Lied
Judy Blundell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
Paul Nurse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

What Is Philosophy?
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

What Is Populism?
Jan-Werner Müller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

What Is The What
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

What Is This Thing Called Science?
Alan F. Chalmers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

What Is to Be Done?
Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

What is Visible
Kimberly Elkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

What I Thought Was True
Huntley Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Richard Ben Cramer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

What I've Done
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
Kristin Newman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Tina Seelig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What Jamie Saw
Carolyn Coman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

What Katy Did
Susan Coolidge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

What Lies Between Us
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

What Lies in the Woods
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

What Light
Jay Asher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

What Maisie Knew
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

What Men Live by and Other Tales
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

What Momma Left Me
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2022

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

What Night Brings
Carla Trujillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

What Now?
Ann Patchett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?
Etgar Keret

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Danielle Ofri

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Carole Radziwill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

What's a Girl Gotta Do? (The Spinster Club, #3)
Holly Bourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

What's Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

What's Cooking
Burt Wolf

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Peter Hedges

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

What She Knew
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What She Left Behind
Ellen Marie Wiseman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

What She Left Me
Judy Doenges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

Whatshisface
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

What's Mine and Yours
Naima Coster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What's So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

What Stands in a Storm
Kim Cross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015