Great Books: Author-Title Index: Authors W to Z

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W., Bill (Bill Wilson), American, 1895-1971.
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA Big Book). Recommended by: Boston PL
Waddington, C. H., English, 1905-1975.
- The Nature of Life. Recommended by: GBWW
Wade, Thomas, English, 1805-1875.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wagner, Richard, German, 1813-1883.
- Ring of the Nibelung. Recommended by: Bloom
Walcott, Derek, St. Lucian, 1930- . Nobel Laureate
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wald, Lillian, American, 1867-1940.
- The House on Henry Street. Recommended by: NYPL
Walker, Alice, American, 1944- .
- The Color Purple. Recommended by: Hungry Mind NYPL Radcliffe
Wallace, David Foster, American, 1962- .
- Infinite Jest. Recommended by: Harvard Time
Walser, Robert, German, 1927- .
- Selected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
Walton, Izaak, English, 1593-1683.
- Compleat Angler. Recommended by: Bloom Rex
Walzer, Michael, American, 1935- .
- Spheres of Justice. Recommended by: TLS
Wambaugh, Joseph, American, 1937- .
- The New Centurions. Recommended by: LAT
Wang Chong (Wang Ch'ung), Chinese, 27-ca. 97 CE.
- Lun Heng (Philosophical and Miscellaneous Essays). Recommended by: Ward
Wang Shifu, Chinese, fl. 1295-1307.
- Story of the Western Wing (Romance of the Western Chamber). Recommended by: MW Asian
Wang Wei, Chinese, ca. 699-ca. 761 .
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
Wang Yangming, Chinese, 1472-1529.
- Instructions for Practical Living, and Other Neo-Confucian Writings. Recommended by: Oriental StJE Ward
Wanniski, Jude, American, 1936- .
- The Way the World Works. Recommended by: National Review
Warner, Rex, English, 1905-1986.
- The Aerodrome. Recommended by: Burgess
Warren, Robert Penn, American, 1905-1989.
- All the King's Men. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC Hungry Mind ML Novels Radcliffe Time
- World Enough and Time. Recommended by: Bloom
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Washington, Booker T., American, 1856-1915.
- Up From Slavery. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Wasson, R. Gordon, American, 1898-1986.
- Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Watson, James D., American, 1928- .
- The Double Helix. Recommended by: Boston PL ML Nonfiction National Review NYPL
Watson, John, American, 1878-1958.
- Behaviorism. Recommended by: Boston PL
Waugh, Evelyn, English, 1903-1966.
- A Handful of Dust. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels Time
- Scoop. Recommended by: Bloom ML Novels
- Vile Bodies. Recommended by: Bloom
- Put Out More Flags. Recommended by: Bloom
- Brideshead Revisited. Recommended by: Burgess ML Novels Radcliffe Time
- Sword of Honour (Trilogy). Recommended by: Burgess
Weaver, Richard, American, 1910-1963.
- Ideas Have Consequences. Recommended by: National Review
Webb, George, Native American, 1893?- .
- A Pima Remembers. Recommended by: LAT
Weber, Max, German, 1864-1920.
- Economy and Society. Recommended by: National Review
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans NYPL
- Essays in Sociology. Recommended by: Colcc91 GBWW (Selections)
Webster, John, English, ca. 1578-ca. 1632 .
- White Devil. Recommended by: Bloom
- Duchess of Malfi. Recommended by: Bloom Rex
Merriam Company, American, Pub. 1961.
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Recommended by: LAT
Wedekind, Frank, German, 1864-1918.
- Lulu Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
- Spring Awakening. Recommended by: Bloom
Wells, H. G., English, 1866-1946.
- The Time Machine. Recommended by: NYPL
- Works. Recommended by: Rexmo
- Science Fiction Novels. Recommended by: Bloom
- The War of the Worlds. Recommended by: Radcliffe
Welty, Eudora, American, 1909-2001.
- Collected Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
- Delta Wedding. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC
- The Robber Bridegroom. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Ponder Heart. Recommended by: Bloom
Werfel, Franz, Czech writing in German, 1890-1945.
- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
West, Cornel, American, 1953- .
- Prophesy Deliverance!. Recommended by: Colcc91
- Race Matters. Recommended by: Utne
West, Nathanael, American, 1904-1940.
- Miss Lonelyhearts. Recommended by: Bloom
- A Cool Million. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Day of the Locust. Recommended by: Bloom BOMC Hungry Mind ML Novels NYPL Time
West, Rebecca, English, 1892-1983.
- Black Lamb and Gray Falcon. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction National Review
- The Fountain Overflows. Recommended by: Smiley
Wharton, Edith, American, 1862-1937.
- The Decoration of Houses (With Ogden Codman). Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- The Custom of the Country. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4
- The Age of Innocence. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Harvard ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe
- The House of Mirth. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 ML Novels Smiley
- Collected Short Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
- Ethan Frome. Recommended by: Bloom Radcliffe
Wheelock, Frederic M., American, 1902-1987.
- Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors. Recommended by: Aquinas
Wheelwright, John B., American, 1897-1940.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
White, E. B., American, 1899-1985.
(See also Strunk, William and E. B. White)
- Charlotte's Web. Recommended by: Harvard NYPL Radcliffe
- Essays. Recommended by: National Review
White, Edmund, American, 1940- .
- Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Recommended by: Bloom
- Forgetting Elena. Recommended by: Bloom
White, Gilbert, English, 1720-1793.
- Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Recommended by: Lubbock Rexmo
White, Patrick, Australian, 1912-1990. Nobel Laureate
- Riders in the Chariot. Recommended by: Bloom Burgess
- A Fringe of Leaves. Recommended by: Bloom
- Voss. Recommended by: Bloom
White, T. H., English, 1906-1984.
- The Once and Future King. Recommended by: Burgess Smiley
White, Theodore H., American, 1915-1986.
- The Making of the President 1960. Recommended by: LAT
Whitehead, Alfred North, English, 1861-1947.
(See also Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand)
- Science and the Modern World. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3 GBWW
- An Introduction to Mathematics. Recommended by: Adler Fadiman 3 GBWW
- The Aims of Education and Other Essays. Recommended by: Adler
- Adventures of Ideas. Recommended by: Adler
Whitehead, Alfred North and Bertrand Russell, English, 1861-1947 and 1872-1970.
(See also Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand)
- Principia Mathematica. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Whitman, Walt, American, 1819-1892.
- Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Leaves of Grass. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading Meaningful Rex Ward
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Democratic Vistas. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass (1855). Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Specimen Days. Recommended by: Bloom
- "Song of Myself". Recommended by: Utne
Whittier, John Greenleaf, American, 1807-1892.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wideman, John Edgar, American, 1941- .
- Philadelphia Fire. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
Wiener, Norbert, American, 1894-1964.
- Cybernetics. Recommended by: Boston PL Seymour-Smith
Wiesel, Elie, Romanian-American writing in French, 1928- .
- Night. Recommended by: NYPL
Wilbur, Richard, American, 1921- .
- New and Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wilcox, James, American, 1949- .
- Modern Baptists. Recommended by: Bloom
Wilde, Oscar, Irish, 1854-1900.
- Works. Recommended by: Ward
- Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
- Picture of Dorian Gray. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
- The Artist as Critic. Recommended by: Bloom
- Letters. Recommended by: Bloom
Wilder, Thornton, American, 1897-1975.
- Three Plays. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Recommended by: ML Novels Time
- Heaven's My Destination. Recommended by: BOMC
Williams, Tennessee, American, 1911-1983.
- The Glass Menagerie. Recommended by: Bloom
- A Streetcar Named Desire. Recommended by: Bloom
- Summer and Smoke. Recommended by: Bloom
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Recommended by: LAT
- Moise and the World of Reason. Recommended by: Harvard
Williams, Terry Tempest, American, 1955- .
- Refuge. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Williams, William Appleman, American, 1921-1990.
- The Contours of American History. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Williams, William Carlos, American, 1883-1963.
- Poems. Recommended by: Rexmo
- Spring and All. Recommended by: Bloom
- Paterson. Recommended by: Bloom LAT
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- In the American Grain. Recommended by: Hungry Mind ML Nonfiction
Williamson, Henry, English, 1895-1977.
- Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (Series of 15 novels). Recommended by: Burgess
Wilmot, Chester, Australian, 1911-1954.
- The Struggle for Europe. Recommended by: National Review
Wilson, Angus, English, 1913-1991.
- The Old Men at the Zoo. Recommended by: Burgess
- Late Call. Recommended by: Burgess
- The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling. Recommended by: National Review
Wilson, August, American, 1945-2005.
- Fences. Recommended by: Bloom
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Recommended by: Bloom Utne
Wilson, Edmund, American, 1895-1972.
- The Shores of Light. Recommended by: Bloom
- Patriotic Gore. Recommended by: Bloom LAT ML Nonfiction
- To the Finland Station. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF Hungry Mind National Review
Wilson, Edward O., American, 1929- .
(See also Hoelldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson)
- Sociobiology. Recommended by: LAT National Review
- The Diversity of Life. Recommended by: NYPL
Winterson, Jeanette, English, 1959- .
- The Passion. Recommended by: Bloom
Wittfogel, Karl, German-American writing in English, 1896-1988.
- Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans TLS
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Austrian, 1889-1941.
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Recommended by: National Review TLS Ward
- Philosophical Investigations. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans GBWW Seymour-Smith TLS
Wodehouse, P. G., English, 1881-1975.
- The Inimitable Jeeves. Recommended by: NYPL
- The Return of Jeeves. Recommended by: Smiley
- Bertie Wooster Sees It Through. Recommended by: Smiley
- Spring Fever. Recommended by: Smiley
- The Butler Did It. Recommended by: Smiley
- The Most of P. G. Wodehouse. Recommended by: Good Reading
Wolf, Christa, German, 1929- .
- Cassandra. Recommended by: Bloom
Wolfe, Thomas, American, 1900-1938.
- Look Homeward, Angel. Recommended by: BOMC Radcliffe
- You Can't Go Home Again. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
Wolfe, Tom, American, 1931- .
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Recommended by: LAT National Review
- Bonfire of the Vanities. Recommended by: NYPL Radcliffe
- The Right Stuff. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
- Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. Recommended by: National Review
Wolff, Tobias, American, 1945- .
- This Boy's Life. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Wolff, Geoffrey, American, 1937- .
- Black Sun. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Wolfram von Eschenbach, German, ca. 1170-ca. 1220.
- Parzival. Recommended by: Bloom
Wollstonecraft, Mary, English, 1759-1797.
- Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Recommended by: Colcc91 Seymour-Smith
Woodham-Smith, Cecil, Welsh, 1896-1977.
- Florence Nightingale. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Woodward, C. Vann, American, 1908-1999.
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Woolf, Virginia, English, 1882-1941.
- Mrs. Dalloway. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Meaningful Radcliffe Time
- To the Lighthouse. Recommended by: Bloom Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW Good Reading Meaningful ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe SJC Time
- Orlando. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Radcliffe Smiley
- A Room of One's Own. Recommended by: Boston PL Collh91 ML Nonfiction
- The Waves. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Between the Acts. Recommended by: Bloom
Woolman, John, American, 1720-1772.
- Journal. Recommended by: Rexmo
Wordsworth, Dorothy, English, 1771-1855.
- Grasmere Journal. Recommended by: Bloom
Wordsworth, William, English, 1770-1850.
- Poems. Recommended by: Adler (Selections) Bloom Good Reading Lubbock (Selections)
- The Prelude. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Selected Shorter Poems. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800). Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
Worster, Donald, American, 1941- .
- Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
Wouk, Herman, American, 1915- .
- The Caine Mutiny. Recommended by: Burgess
Wrede, Patricia C., American, 1953- .
- Dealing with Dragons. Recommended by: Harvard
Wright, Charles, American, 1935- .
- The World of the Ten Thousand Things. Recommended by: Bloom
Wright, Frank Lloyd, American, 1867-1959.
- The Living City. Recommended by: LAT
Wright, James, American, 1927-1980.
- Above the River: The Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wright, Jay, American, 1935- .
- Dimensions of History. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Double Invention of Komo. Recommended by: Bloom
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Elaine's Book. Recommended by: Bloom
- Boleros. Recommended by: Bloom
Wright, Judith, Australian, 1915-2000.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wright, Martin, English, 1930- .
- Power Politics. Recommended by: TLS
Wright, Richard, American, 1908-1960.
- Native Son. Recommended by: Bloom Boston PL Hungry Mind ML Novels NYPL Radcliffe Time
- Black Boy. Recommended by: Bloom ML Nonfiction
Wu Cheng'en (Wu Chengen), Chinese, 1500-1582.
- Journey to the West (also known as Monkey). Recommended by: Fadiman 4 MW Asian Oriental StJE Utne Ward
Wu Qingzi (Wu Ch'ing-tzu), Chinese, 1701-1754.
- The Scholars. Recommended by: Ward
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, English, 1503-1542.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Wycherley, William, English, 1641-1715.
- The Country Wife. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Plain Dealer. Recommended by: Bloom
Wylie, Elinor, American, 1885-1928.
- Last Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
X, Malcolm, American, 1925-1965.
- Autobiography of Malcolm X (With the assistance of and epilogue by Alex Haley). Recommended by: Colcc91 Counterpunch NF Hungry Mind LAT ML Nonfiction NYPL
Xenophon, Greek, ca. 429-ca. 354 BCE.
- Cyropaedia. Recommended by: Ward
- Memorabilia. Recommended by: Lubbock
- Anabasis. Recommended by: Lubbock
Xie Lingyun, Chinese, 385-433.
- Poems. Recommended by: MW Asian
Xunzi (Hsun Tzu), Chinese, ca. 313-238 BCE.
- Selected Writings. Recommended by: Oriental StJE
Yamauchi, Wakako, American, 1924- .
- Songs My Mother Taught Me. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
Yates, Frances, English, 1899-1981.
- The Art of Memory. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF ML Nonfiction
Yates, Richard, American, 1926-1992.
- Revolutionary Road. Recommended by: Harvard Time
Yeats, William Butler, Irish, 1865-1939. Nobel Laureate
- The Wild Swans at Coole. Recommended by: NYPL
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Ward
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: SJC
- Collected Plays. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Rexmo
- A Vision. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mythologies. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Autobiography. Recommended by: Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4
- Autobiographies. Recommended by: ML Nonfiction
Yehoshua, A. B., Israeli, 1936- .
- A Late Divorce. Recommended by: Bloom
Various Authors, Indians writing in Sanskrit, 6th C. .
- Yogachara writings. Recommended by: StJE
Yoshimoto, Banana, Japanese, 1964- .
- Kitchen. Recommended by: Harvard
Yourcenar, Marguerite, French, 1903-1987.
- Coup de Grace. Recommended by: Bloom
- Memoirs of Hadrian. Recommended by: Bloom Meaningful
Yuan Mei, Chinese, 1716-1798.
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
Zach, Nathan, Israeli, 1930- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
Zagajewski, Adam, Polish, 1945- .
- Tremor. Recommended by: Bloom
Zamyatin, Yevgeny Ivanovich, Russian, 1884-1937.
- We. Recommended by: Ward
Zanzotto, Andrea, Italian, 1921- .
- Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
Zeami, Japanese, 1363-1443.
- Atsumori. (See also No [Noh] Theatre) Recommended by: MW Asian
- Izutsu. (See also No [Noh] Theatre) Recommended by: MW Asian
Various Authors, Parsis (Persian, later Indian) writing in Avestan, Parsis writing in Avestan, ca. 300 CE.
- Zend-Avesta. Recommended by: Seymour-Smith Ward
Zhu Xi, Chinese, 1130-1200.
- Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology. Recommended by: Oriental Ward
Zhuangzi, See Chuang-tzu
Zinn, Howard, American, 1922- .
- A People's History of the United States. Recommended by: Harvard Utne
Various authors probably including Moses de Leon (c. 1240-1305), Jews in Spain writing in Hebrew and Aramaic, 13th C.
- Zohar. (See also Kabbalah) Recommended by: Utne
Zola, Émile, French, 1840-1902.
- Thérèse Raquin. Recommended by: Smiley Ward
- L'Assommoir. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
- Germinal. Recommended by: Bloom Good Reading Ward
- Nana. Recommended by: Bloom
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, Russian, 1895-1958.
- Nervous People and Other Satires. Recommended by: Bloom
Zweig, Stefan, Austrian, 1881-1942.
- The World of Yesterday. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
- Balzac. Recommended by: National Review

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