Wolf Hour
In Minneapolis, suspended detective Bob Oz hunts sniper Tomas Gomez in 2016 while a Norwegian writer revisits the case in 2022 with secrets.
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Wolves of the Calla
Roland and his ka tet defend a farming town from robotic Wolves while Father Callahan offers a deadly magic ball.
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Woman Down
A blocked author hides out at a lakeside cabin and falls for a detective who may be muse, lover, or trap in Hoover's twisty 2026 thriller.
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Wool Omnibus
In a buried silo, a sheriff asks to go outside, and a mechanic learns why no one returns from cleaning.
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Words of Radiance
Kaladin guards Dalinar, Shallan hunts Urithiru, and the Everstorm gathers.
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World After
Penryn wakes from near-death to find her altered sister Paige hunted as a monster, and follows her into the angels' scorpion factory and Uriel's coup.
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World War Z
A UN researcher collects survivor accounts from Patient Zero in China to Yonkers and the Redeker Plan, charting the zombie war.
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World Without End
Four children witness a killing, then plague, war, and church shape builder, healer, peasant, lord.
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Worth Dying For
Reacher stops for one night in rural Nebraska and finds a family that runs the county, a missing girl and a shipment worth killing for.
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Wretched
The Wicked Witch of the West becomes a heroin chemist, and the DEA agent sent to destroy her family falls for the very woman he was assigned to ruin.
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Writers & Lovers
A broke waitress in Boston grieves her mother, finishes a novel, and chooses between two men.
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood
1778 war splits Jamies and Claires across rebellion and time as Brianna hunts a kidnapped son.
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.
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Wyrd Sisters
Three Lancre witches rescue a murdered king's baby, hide Lancre's future, and trap a guilty duke with a play in Ankh-Morpork.
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Xenocide
Lusitania faces a fleet with planet death while Ender, Jane, and families debate virus, souls, and law.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
Yorick Brown and his monkey Ampersand survive a plague that kills every Y-chromosome mammal and cross a collapsed America.
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Year of Wonders
A maid in plague-hit Eyam nurses neighbors, loses her sons, and finds skill and doubt in 1666.
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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes takes her sister’s accusation seriously and spends a year saying yes to the things that frighten her, from live television to her own reflection.
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Year One
A plague released in Scotland kills most of humanity, and the survivors discover magic, build a town, and wait for a child who may save them.
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Yellowface
Struggling writer June steals her dead friend Athena's manuscript and publishes it as Juniper Song.
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood, divorce, and saying…
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