Critically Acclaimed & Award Winning Novelists: A Selection of Literary Authors in our Collection

Authors with a surname starting with the letters "W-Z"

(all with a sampling of their work and the topic/theme of each title)
(jr) indicates a more junior reading level

• Wagamese, Richard /
• Indian Horse - call# F WAG (Indians of North America / Displacement)
• Keeper'n Me - call# F WAG (Indians of North America / Family Love)


• Walker, Alice
• Color Purple - call# F WAL (Women / Afro American / Struggle)


• Walker, Mary W
• Under The Beetle's Cellar - call# F WAL (Cults)


• Waldorf, Heather (jr)
• Grist - call# F WAL (Girls Coming of Age)


• Walters, Eric (jr)
• Rebound - call# F WAL (Basketball)
• Stand Your Ground - call# F WAL (Troubled teens)
• Fourth Dimension - call#: F WAL (The disintegration of society when all modern amenities are destroyed)


• Walters, Minette
• Sculptress, The - call# F WAL (Crime -  Females)


• Ward, Jesmyn
  • Sing, unburied, sing - call#: F WAR (a journey through Mississippi’s past and present, this examines the ugly legacies, violence, and family bonds at the heart of the American story)
  
  
• Warren, Dianne
• Cool Water - call# F WAR (City and Town Life / Saskatchewan)


• Warren, Robert P
• All the King's Men - call# F WAR (Corruption)


• Waters, Sarah
• Fingersmith - call# F WAT (Thieves)


• Watson, Larry (jr)
• Montana 1948 - call# F WAT (Coming of Age)


• Walton, Jo
  • The Just City - call#: F WAL (Time travel / Planned communities)
  
  
• Waugh, Evelyn
• Brideshead revisited - call# F WAU (Resilience of religious faith)


• Weldon, Fay (jr)
• Cloning of Joanna May - call# F WEL (Sci-Fi / Artificial Intelligence)


• Welty, Eudora
• Optimist's Daughter - call# F WEL (Human Memory / Personal Loss)


• Werlin, Nancy (jr)
• Black mirror -call# F WER (Boarding schools / Murder)


• West, Dorothy (jr)
• Wedding, The - call# F WES (Family / Relationships)


• Weyr, Garret Freymann (jr)
• My Heartbeat - call# F WEY (Homosexuality & family life)


• Wharton, Edith
• Age of Innocence - call# F WHA (Romance / Following Social Convention)


• Whitehead, Colson
  • The Underground Railroad - call#: F WHI (Fugitive Slaves - United States)
  
  
• Whittall, Zoe
  • The Best Kind of People - call#: F WHI (Trials - Sex Crimes)
  
  
• Wiebe, Rudy
• Discovery of Strangers, A - call# F WIE (Exploration of Canada's " New World")


• Wiggins, Marianne
• Evidence of Things Unseen - call# F WIG (WW I - Radiation)


• Wilde, Oscar
• Picture of Dorian Gray - call# F WIL (Conduct of Life / Youthfulness)


• Williams, Tamara (jr)
• Truth and lies - call# F WIL (Coming of age)


• Williams-Garcia, Rita (jr)
• Fast Talk - call# F WIL (Self-perception)


• Wilson, Budge (jr)
• Fractures : Family Stories - call# F WIL (Family relationships)


• Wilson, John (jr)
• Flames of the Tiger - call# F WIL (World War ll)


• Wilson, Robert Charles
• Chronoliths - call# F WIL (Survival / Disasters)


• Windley, Carol
• Breathing Under Water - call# F WIN (Mother Daughter Relationship)
• Visible Light - call# F WIN (British Columbia / Short Stories)


• Winman, Sarah
  • When God was a Rabbit - call#: F WIN (Brothers and Sisters)
  
  
• Winter, Kathleen
• Annabel - call# F WIN (Family Life / Gender Identity)


• Winter, Michael
• Minister without Portfolio - call# F WIN (Existential Search for Self identity)


• Winton, Tim
• Dirt Music - call# F WIN (Emotion / Love)


• Wiseman, Adele
• Crackpot - call# F WIS (Prostitution)


• Wodehouse, P.G. (jr)
• Piccadilly Jim - call# F WOD (Comedy with masterful complexity)


• Wolff, Tobias
• Old School - call# F WOL (Desire to Write / Power of Literature)


• Wolfe, Tom
• I am Charlotte Simmons - call# F WOL (Women College Students / Social Classes)


• Wooding, Chris
• Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, The - call# F WOO (Horror / Supernatural)


• Woodson, Jacqueline (jr)
• Miracle's Boys - call# F WOO (Multiculturalism)


• Woolf, Virginia
• Mrs. Dalloway - call# F WOO (nterpersonal Relationships - both isolation and belonging)


• Wouk, Herman
• Caine Mutiny - call# F WOU (WWII - Mutiny Aboard a Minesweeper)


• Wright, Eric (jr)
• Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn - call# F WRI (Mystery & Horror)


• Wright, Laurali R.
• Strangers Among Us - call# F WRI (Mystery -  Critically Acclaimed Authors)


• Wright, Richard B. (jr)
• Clara Callan - call# F WRI (Siblings)


• Wright, Ronald (jr)
• Scientific Romance - call# F WRI (Time travel)


• Wynne-Jones, Tim (jr)
• Maestro : a Novel call# F WYN (Abusive relationships)
• Uninvited, The - call# F WYN (Detective / Mystery)


• Yan, Mo
• Garlic Ballads - call# F YAN (Political Fiction / Ancient Traditions)


• Yapa, Sunil
  • Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist - call#: F YAP (an examination of the power of empathy and compassion in a hyper-connected modern world; and how far we may find ourselves heading in the name of our principles)
  
  
• Ye, Ting-Xing (jr)
• Mountain Girl River Girl - call# F YE (Female Friendship)
• Throwaway Daughter - call# F YE (Chinese Canadian Women)


• York, Alissa
• Effigy: a novel - call# F YOR (Polygamy / Mormons History / Inter-relationships)


• Yolen, Jane (jr)
• Briar Rose - call# F YOL (Jews / Holocaust)


• Yoshimoto, Banana (jr)
• Kitchen - call# F YOS (Girls' Coming of Age)


• Young, William P. (jr)
• Shack, The - call# F YOU (Christian Allegory / Holy Trinity)

Younge, Danielle Ullman (jr)
• Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined - call#: F YOU (Identity, devastation, and the strength to pursue one's dreams once one recognizes the barriers)


• Zabor, Rafi
• Bear Comes Home - call# F ZAB (Adventure)

Zentner, Jeff (jr)
• Goodbye Days - call#: F ZEN (The very human experience of dealing with family, friends' families, and school through present-tense narration, putting readers directly into our protagonist's head. )
• The Serpent King - call#: F ZEN (A much-beloved story of three high school seniors, misfits and best friends coming-of-age)


• Zindel, Paul (jr)
• Pigman, The - call# F ZIN (Emotions / Youth)


• Zusak, Markus
• Book Thief - call# F ZUS (Holocaust / Fate / Humanity)
• I Am the Messenger - call# F ZUS (Self-esteem)