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Want
Lynn Steger Strong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Wanted
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Wanting
Richard Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Want (Want, #1)
Cindy Pon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

War
Bob Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Doris L. Bergen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

War and Remembrance
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

War and Turpentine
Stefan Hertmans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

War Brides
Helen Bryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

War Brothers
Sharon McKay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

War Comes to Willy Freeman
James Lincoln Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

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

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

War for the Oaks
Emma Bull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

War Horse
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

War in Heaven
Charles Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

War Is a Racket
Smedley D. Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

War Is Kind and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Warlight
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Warlock (Ancient Egypt, #3)
Wilbur Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Warlock (Legends West, #1)
Oakley Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)
Isaac Marion

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

War of a Thousand Deserts
Brian Delay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to al-Qaeda
Jonathan Tucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

War of the Twins
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

War Photographer
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult

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

Warrior of the Wild
Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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 & War
László Krasznahorkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Wash Day Diaries
Jamila Rowser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Washington Black
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Alexander Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Watched
Marina Budhos

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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

Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents…
Alan Moore, John Higgins, Dave Gibbons, Len Wein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Watchtower (Chronicles of Tornor, #1)
Elizabeth A. Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Waterfall (River of Time, #1)
Lisa Tawn Bergren

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Waterland
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Waterless Mountain
Laura Adams Armer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

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

Watt
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Suzanne Heywood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Waylander
David Gemmell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James Bridle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Ways of Dying
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ways Of Seeing
John Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Way Station
Clifford D. Simak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Ways to Grow Love (Ryan Hart, #2)
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Ways to Make Sunshine
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Wayward
Chuck Wendig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

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

Wealth and Poverty
George Gilder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

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