Book Series Guide

The catalog

Authors

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Wilhelm Grimm

German philologist, literary scholar, folklore collector, and editor of medieval German texts.

25 works0 series
Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins

English novelist, playwright, short-story writer, essayist, and travel writer best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

50 works0 series
Will Damron

Will Damron

Will Damron is an American author, actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator whose published fiction debut is the fantasy-adventure novel The Tercentennial Baron.

1 works1 series
Will Durant

Will Durant

American philosopher, historian, and writer best known for The Story of Civilization and The Story of Philosophy.

45 works1 series

Will Patton

American actor, playwright, audiobook narrator, and author of the memoir Lassitudes of Fire.

4 works0 series

Will Staehle

American book designer, illustrator, and visual artist who publishes authored postcard collections under the pseudonym Wilhelm Staehle.

2 works0 series
Will Wight

Will Wight

American fantasy author known for progression-fantasy, cultivation-fantasy, and science-fantasy novels.

27 works6 series
Willa Cather

Willa Cather

American novelist, short-story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist known for fiction about migration, memory, artistic vocation, and life on the American Great Plains.

21 works0 series
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist known for modernist prose and Southern Gothic fiction.

51 works1 series
William Gibson

William Gibson

American-Canadian novelist and essayist widely regarded as a pioneer of cyberpunk science fiction.

19 works4 series
William Golding

William Golding

English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for Lord of the Flies.

20 works1 series
William Goldman

William Goldman

American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and essayist known for The Princess Bride, Adventures in the Screen Trade, and two Academy Award-winning screenplays.

35 works3 series

William Kent Krueger

American novelist and crime writer best known for the Cork O'Connor mystery series, set primarily in northern Minnesota.

28 works1 series
William L. Shirer

William L. Shirer

American journalist, war correspondent, historian, and author best known for The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Berlin Diary.

17 works1 series

William L. Simon

American business and technology writer, screenwriter, and coauthor of bestselling nonfiction books.

19 works0 series

William Peter Blatty

American novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for The Exorcist.

16 works1 series

William R. Forstchen

American historian, professor, and author of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, military history, and thrillers.

59 works14 series
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

American novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet, and experimental writer associated with the Beat Generation and the cut-up technique.

77 works2 series

William Scott Wilson

American author, translator, and historian of Japanese literature, best known for his works on samurai culture, Zen, tea, and Japanese poetry.

5 works0 series
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English playwright, poet, and actor active during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

44 works2 series

William Strunk Jr.

American professor of English and author of The Elements of Style.

2 works0 series
William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

American novelist, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and visual artist known for expansive historical fiction, reportage, moral inquiry, and photography.

35 works5 series

William Weaver

American writer, translator, opera critic, and biographer best known for his influential translations of modern Italian literature.

8 works0 series

William Wiegand

American novelist, mystery writer, and creative-writing professor (1928–2016).

4 works0 series

William Zinsser

American writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, and teacher best known for On Writing Well.

22 works0 series
Wilson Rawls

Wilson Rawls

American children's author best known for two novels set in the rural Ozarks and Oklahoma.

2 works0 series

Won-pyung Sohn

South Korean novelist, filmmaker, and screenwriter known for socially engaged fiction about empathy, growth, and contemporary life.

13 works1 series
Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as a creator of educational content about Chinese history and culture.

3 works2 series
Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi

Ghanaian American novelist known for literary fiction about family, migration, history, faith, and belonging.

2 works0 series
Yangsze Choo

Yangsze Choo

Yangsze Choo is a Malaysian writer of Chinese descent and the New York Times bestselling author of three historical fantasy novels.

3 works0 series
Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Greek economist, author, academic, and politician known for work on game theory, political economy, the euro crisis, and contemporary capitalism.

27 works1 series
Yann Martel

Yann Martel

Canadian writer and novelist, best known for Life of Pi.

7 works0 series

Yareli Arizmendi

Mexican-American actress, writer, producer, and performance artist known for co-writing A Day Without a Mexican and creating politically engaged solo theater works.

6 works0 series
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist and short-story writer, and the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

76 works0 series
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian novelist, satirist, playwright, literary critic, and naval engineer best known for the dystopian novel We.

22 works1 series

Yiyun Li

Chinese-born American writer of literary fiction, short stories, memoir, and nonfiction.

12 works0 series
Yoko Ogawa

Yoko Ogawa

Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and nonfiction author.

68 works2 series
Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee

Korean-American science fiction and fantasy author of adult, young adult, middle-grade, nonfiction, and graphic works.

16 works4 series

Yuji Oniki

Writer, translator, and English-language adapter known for Japanese popular-culture nonfiction and Studio Ghibli film-comic adaptations.

23 works5 series
Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

Japanese novelist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and poet whose work explored beauty, identity, sexuality, tradition, nationalism, and death.

109 works1 series
Yume Kitasei

Yume Kitasei

Japanese American author of science fiction, speculative fiction, and mystery novels.

4 works0 series
Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli historian, philosopher, and bestselling nonfiction author known for writing accessible, large-scale histories of humanity, technology, and information.

13 works2 series
Zachary Webber

Zachary Webber

American actor, audiobook narrator, and author.

1 works0 series

Zadie Smith

English novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and playwright.

17 works0 series
Zen Cho

Zen Cho

Malaysian-British author of fantasy and romance, known for historical and contemporary fantasy novels, novellas, and short fiction.

10 works2 series
Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

American novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, essayist, playwright, and memoirist associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

15 works1 series
Zoraida Córdova

Zoraida Córdova

Ecuadorian-American author of fantasy, science fiction, middle-grade and young-adult fiction, adult fiction, romance, and graphic fiction.

38 works9 series