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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2016
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022
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 to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Transl. Alison Watts, Michiko Aoyama
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981
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 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 I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017
When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993
When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
When They Call You a Terrorist
Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut, Transl. Adrian Nathan West
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020
When We Had Wings
Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, Kristina McMorris
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024
Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes
Kelsey Timmerman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1966