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, 1930-2017. 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, 1962-2008.
  • Infinite Jest. Recommended by: Harvard Time
• Walser, Robert, Swiss writing in German, 1878-1956.
  • 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 Telegraph
• Weaver, Richard, American, 1910-1963.
  • Ideas Have Consequences. Recommended by: National Review
• Webb, George, Native American, 1892?-1964.
  • 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 Telegraph
  • 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, 1928-2016.
  • Night. Recommended by: NYPL
• Wilbur, Richard, American, 1921-2017.
  • 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, 1929-2011.
  • Cassandra. Recommended by: Bloom
• Wolf, Naomi, American, 1962- .
  • The Beauty Myth. Recommended by: Telegraph
• 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, 1931-2018.
  • 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 Telegraph
  • 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
• Wyndham, John, English, 1903-1969.
  • The Day of the Triffids. Recommended by: Telegraph
• 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 Telegraph 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
• Yunus Emre, Turkish, 1240?-1321?.
  • Mystical Poetry. Recommended by: Oriental
• 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, 1921-2011.
  • 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, 1922-2010.
  • 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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