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What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

What's Wrong with the World
G.K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

What the Buddha Taught
Walpola Rahula

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2017

What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Mona Hanna-Attisha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

What the Fireflies Knew
Kai Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

What the **** is Normal?!
Francesca Martínez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age
Renée Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

What the Moon Said
Gayle Rosengren

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

What the Moon Saw
Laura Resau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

What the Night Knows
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

What the River Knows
Isabel Ibañez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
Helen Scales

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

What the Wind Knows
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What They Found: Love on 145th Street
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2007

What This Cruel War Was Over
Chandra Manning

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

What to do When Someone Dies
Nicci French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

What to Expect When You're Expecting
Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2002

What to Listen for in Music
Aaron Copland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

What to Say Next
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

What Was Lost
Catherine O'Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

What Was Promised
Tobias Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We All Long For
Dionne Brand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

What We Lost
Dale Peck

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

What We Saw
Aaron Hartzler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nathan Englander

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

What Will People Say?
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

What You Did
Claire McGowan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

What You Have Heard Is True
Carolyn Forché

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

What You Wish For
Mark Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Dr. William Davis, William Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

When
Victoria Laurie

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Ira Katznelson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

When a Ghost Talks, Listen (How I Became A Ghost, Book 2)
Tim Tingle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

When All Is Said
Anne Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When and Where I Enter
Paula Giddings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

When Beauty Tamed the Beast
Eloisa James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When Books Went To War
Molly Guptill Manning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

When Broken Glass Floats
Chanrithy Him

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

When Brooklyn Was Queer
Hugh Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

When Calls the Heart
Janette Oke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

When China Ruled the Seas
Louise Levathes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

When China Rules the World
Martin Jacques

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
Sharon Kay Penman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

When Crickets Cry: a Novel of the Heart
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back
Naja Marie Aidt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

When Eight Bells Toll
Alistair MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

When Everything Changed
Gail Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

When Friendship Followed Me Home
Paul Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

When God was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When God Was a Woman
Merlin Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

When Gracie Met the Grump
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)
George Alec Effinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

When Great Trees Fall
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult

When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One: Release 2.0
David Gerrold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Le Ly Hayslip

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

When I Found You
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

When I'm Gone
Emily Bleeker

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

When in Rome: A Novel
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

When It Happens
Susane Colasanti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

When It's Real
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

When I Was a Soldier
Valérie Zenatti

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

When I Was the Greatest
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

When I Was You
Amber Garza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away
Rámon A. Gutiérrez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

When Life Gives You Lululemons
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

When Life Gives You Mangos
Kereen Getten

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

When My Brother Was an Aztec
Natalie Díaz

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

When Never Comes
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
Irvin D. Yalom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
David D. Burns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, Aids
James Cross Giblin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1995

When Pride Still Mattered
David Maraniss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

When She Returned
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

When She Was Good
Michael Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

When She Woke
Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

When Smoke Ran Like Water
Devra Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

When Species Meet
Donna J. Haraway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

When Stars Are Scattered
Omar Mohamed, Victoria Jamieson

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020