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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (1997) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943 -)  (Grade:B+)

Waiting (1999) - Ha Jin (1956-)  (Grade:A-)

Waiting for Godot (1948) - Samuel Beckett (4/13/1906 -12/22/1989)  (Grade:F)

Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) - J. M. Coetzee (2/09/1940 -)  (Grade:B-)

Waiting for the Weekend (1991) - Witold Rybczynski (3/01/1943 -)  (Grade:B+)

Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America (2009) - James McCommons (-)  (Grade:B+)

Waking Lazarus (2006) - T. L. Hines (1966-)  (Grade:A-)

A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) - Nelson Algren (3/28/1909 -5/09/1981)  (Grade:A)

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism (2008) - Geoff Nicholson (03/04/1953-)  (Grade:B)

Walking (1862) - Henry David Thoreau (07/12/1817 -05/06/1862)  (Grade:B)

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) - Bill Bryson (12/08/1951-)  (Grade:B+)

The Wall: A Thriller (2006) - Jeff Long (-)  (Grade:B+)

Wall of Glass : A Joshua Croft Mystery (1987) - Walter Satterthwait ( -)  (Grade:B+)

The Walls of Jericho (1997) - Jon Land (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912) - Alain-Fournier (1886-1914)  (Grade:A)

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (5/27/1912 -6/18/1982)  (Grade:D)

War and the Liberal Conscience (Trevelyan Lectures) (1978) - Michael Eliot Howard (11/29/1922-)  (Grade:A)

The War in 2020 (1991) - Ralph Peters (1952-)  (Grade:C+)

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - Chris Hedges (-)  (Grade:C)

The War of the Rats (1999) - David L. Robbins (-)  (Grade:C)

The Warlord's Son (2004) - Dan Fesperman (-)  (Grade:A+)

Warning Signs (2003) - Alan Caruba (10/09/1937-)  (Grade:B+)

Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (2002) - Robert D. Kaplan (1952 -)  (Grade:C-)

Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) - David Hackett Fischer (1935 -)  (Grade:A+)

Washington Square (1880) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:C-)

The Waste Land: An Entertainment (2010) - Simon Acland (-)  (Grade:A)

The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (2007) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Wave (2006) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:C)

Wave of Terror (1972) - Theodore Odrach (02/13/1912-10/07/1964)  (Grade:A+)

The Way of All Flesh (1903) - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)  (Grade:D)

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000) - Frances Fitzgerald (-)  (Grade:D+)

The Way Through the Woods: An Inspector Morse Mystery (1992) - Colin Dexter (1930-) (Grade:A+)

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1966) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982) (Grade:A)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) - Shirley Jackson (12/14/1916 -8/08/1965)  (Grade:A+)

We Interrupt This Broadcast : The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Virginia Tech Shooting (2008) - Joe Garner (-)  (Grade:B-)

We Cast a Shadow (2019) - Maurice Carlos Ruffin ( -)  (Grade:C+)

A Wedding Gift: And Other Angling Stories (1992) - John Taintor Foote (1881-1950)  (Grade:A)

The Weight of Water (1996) - Anita Shreve (-)  (Grade:C+)

Welcome to Hard Times (1960) - E.L. Doctorow (1931-)  (Grade:C+)

Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution (2006) - Brian Mann (1965-)  (Grade:B-)

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2002) - Tamim Ansary (1948-)  (Grade:B)

West With the Night (1941) - Beryl Markham (1902-1986)  (Grade:A+)

Wet Work (1990) - Christopher Buckley (1952-)  (Grade:C)

The Whale Rider (1987) - Witi Ihimaera (2/07/1944-)  (Grade:B)

What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America (1991) - Peter Hansard (-)  (Grade:B+)

What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990) - Peggy Noonan (1950-)  (Grade:A-)

What it Takes : The Way to the White House (1992) - Richard Ben Cramer (06/12/1950 -01/07/2013)  (Grade:A+)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-)  (Grade:C)

What the Anti-Federalists Were For (1981) - Herbert J. Storing (1928 -1977)  (Grade:A)

What We Can't Not Know: A Guide (2003) - J. Budziszewski (1952 -)  (Grade:A)

What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002) - Bernard Lewis (-)  (Grade:A)

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) - Thomas Frank (1965-)  (Grade:D)

Whatever [L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte] (1994) - Michel Houellebecq (2/26/1956 -)  (Grade:C)

When in Greece : A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery (1969) - Martha Henissart (1929-) - Mary J. Latsis (07/12/1927-10/29/1997)  (Grade:A-)

When Last Seen Alive: An Aaron Gunner Mystery (1997) - Gar Anthony Haywood (-)  (Grade:C)

When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon (2000) - Frances Park (1955-)  (Grade:C-)

When the Whistle Blows (2009) - Fran Cannon Slayton (-)  (Grade:A+)

Where Men Hide (2006) - James B. Twitchell (-)  (Grade:B)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)  (Grade:A-)

Where the Stress Falls (2001) - Susan Sontag (1/16/1933 -12/28/2004)  (Grade:T (for toilet paper))

The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) - Herbert Butterfield (10/07/1900 -7/20/1979)  (Grade:A)

While I Was Gone (1999) - Sue Miller (-)  (Grade:D)

The Whipping Boy (1986) - Sid Fleischman (1920-)  (Grade:B)

The White Album (1979) - Joan Didion (12/05/1934 -12/23/2021)  (Grade:A+)

White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -)  (Grade:C)

White Oleander (1999) - Janet Fitch (-)  (Grade:C+)

White Shaka Boy (2009) - Alan Brody (-)  (Grade:B)

The White Tiger (2008) - Aravind Adiga (10/23/1974-)  (Grade:C)

White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Race (2018) - Robin DiAngelo (09/08/1956 -)  (Grade:F)

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) - Sam Tanenhaus (-)  (Grade:A)

Who Owns History? : Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002) - Eric Foner (2/07/1943 -)  (Grade:F)

Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994) - Christina Hoff Sommers (-)  (Grade:B-)

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) - Lorrie Moore (-)  (Grade:B+)

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (2005) - Marianne J. Legato (1935-)  (Grade:B+)

Why Orwell Matters (2002) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)  (Grade:B+)

Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-)  (Grade:B+)

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Jean Rhys (8/24/1890 -5/14/1979)  (Grade:F-)

Wieland; or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) - Charles Brockden Brown (1/17/1771 -2/22/1810)  (Grade:A)

Wild Nights : Nature Returns to the City (2001) - Anne Matthews (1957-)  (Grade:B)

Wild Thorns (Al-Subar) (1976) - Sahar Khalifeh (1941-)  (Grade:B)

Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives (2002) - John A. Murley (-)  (Grade:A)

Wilt : Larger than Life (2004) - Robert Cherry (1943-)  (Grade:B+)

The Windup Girl (2009) - Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (08/06/1972-)  (Grade:C+)

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) - Sherwood Anderson (9/13/1876 -3/08/1941)  (Grade:C-)

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995) - Li-Young Lee (1957-)  (Grade:D-)

The Wings of the Dove (1902) - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:D)

Winnetou (1893) - Karl May (2/25/1842 -3/30/1912)  (Grade:B+)

The Winter King: Warlord Chronicles, vol. 1 (1996) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)  (Grade:B)

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:B)

Wise Blood (1952) - Flannery O'Connor (03/25/1925 -08/03/1964) (Grade:A+)

The Witchfinder: an Amos Walker Mystery (1998) - Loren D. Estleman (1952 -) (Grade:A+)

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy () - Florence King (01/05/1936 -01/06/2016) (Grade:B+)

With Fire and Sword (1883) - Henryk Sienkiewicz (05/05/1846 -11/15/1916) (Grade:A+)

Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun (1971) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-) (Grade:B)

Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam (2006) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-) (Grade:A+)

Witness (1952) - Whittaker Chambers (4/01/1901 -7/09/1961) (Grade:A+)

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999) - George Weigel (-)  (Grade:A+)

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001) - David Edmonds (-)  (Grade:C+)

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) - Ursula K. Le Guin (10/21/1929 -1/22/2018)  (Grade:C)

Woman in the Dark : A Novel of Dangerous Romance (1933) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961)  (Grade:C)

Women in Love (1920) - D.H. Lawrence (9/11/1885 -3/02/1930)  (Grade:F)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - L. Frank Baum (5/15/1856 -5/06/1919)  (Grade:A+)

The Wood Beyond the World (1895) - William Morris (1834-1896)  (Grade:B+)

Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001) - Stefan Fatsis (4/01/1963 -)  (Grade:B+)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-)  (Grade:B+)

Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History (2000) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:F)

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) - Studs Terkel (5/16/1912 -10/31/2008)  (Grade:C-)

The World and the West (1953) - Arnold J. Toynbee (04/14/1889-10/22/1975)  (Grade:A+)

The World Turned Right Side Up : A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America (1996) - Godfrey Hodgson (-)  (Grade:C)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) - Max Michael Brooks (05/22/1972-)  (Grade:A)

A Wrinkle in Time (1962) - Madeleine L'Engle (11/29/1918 -09/06/2007)  (Grade:A+)

The Wrong Side of Paris [L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine] (1840-48) - Honore de Balzac (05/20/1799 -08/18/1850)  (Grade:B+)

Wry Martinis (1997) - Christopher Buckley (1952-)  (Grade:A-)

Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (1985) - William John Burley (08/01/1914-11/15/2002)  (Grade:B)