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Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

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The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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• Dan Wakefield, How Do We Know When It's God: A Spiritual Memoir (Little, Brown)
• Elijah Wald, Josh White: Society Blues (Univ. of Massachusetts Press)
• Elijah Wald, Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad)
• Gayle F. Wald, Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon Press)
• Ayalet Waldman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Doubleday)
• Alice Walker, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems (Random House)
• Alice Walker is also heard in Democracy
• Alice Walker, Anything We Love Can Be Saved Random House
• Chet Walker with Chris Messenger, Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of-Age in America Grove Press
• Kent Walker with Mark Schone, Son Of A Grifter (William Morrow/Harpercollins)
• Alan Wallace, Contemplative Science (Columbia)
• Catherine Wallace, For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives Knopf
• Danny Wallace, Join Me! - the true story of a man who started a cult by accident (Plume)
• Danny Wallace, Yes Man (Simon Spotlight; ISBN: 1416900667)
• David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Little, Brown (a guest on programs "Games" and "Pursuit of Pleasure.")
• David Foster Wallace, Oblivion (Little Brown)
• Judith Wallerstein, Julia Lewis, Sandra Blakeslee, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study (Hyperion)
• Jim Wallis, Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (Random)
• Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle : A Memoir (Scribner; ISBN: 0743247531)
• Annie Wang, Lili: a novel (Anchor Books)
• Elizabeth Ward, ed., Vikings: The North Atlantic Sage (Smithsonian)
• Peter Ward, with images by Alexis Rockman, Future Evolution: An Illuminated History of Life to Come (Times Books)
• Chris Ware, The Acme Novelty Library (Pantheon)
• Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Fantagraphics Books)
• John Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy Yale University Press
• Mark Warhus, Another America: Native American Maps & The History of Our Land St. Martin's Press
• Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling & Making Mock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Andrea Warren, Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story Houghton Mifflin
• Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press)
• Janet Wasko, Hollywood in the Information Age University of Texas Press
• Wendy Wasserstein, Shiksa Goddess (Or, How I Spent My Forties) (Knopf)
• Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook (Harpercollins)
• Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Fruit (Harper Collins)
• Anita Waters, Race, Class & Political Symbols: Rastafari & Reggae in Jamaican Politics (Transaction)
• Sherron Watkins, Power Failure (Doubleday)
• Steve Watkins, The Black O: Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire (University of Georgia Press)
• James D. Watson, Genes, Girls and Gamow (Knopf)
• Bruce Watson: The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made
• Larry Watson, Orchard: a novel (Random House)
• Larry Watson, White Crosses (Pocket Books)
• Lyall Watson, Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil (Harper Collins)
• Peter Watson, Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, From Fire to Freud (HarperCollins)
• Ethan Watters, Urban Tribes: a generation redefines friendship, family, and commitment (Bloomsbury)
• Jack Weatherford, The History of Money Crown
• Mary Anne Weaver, A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Charles Harper Webb, Hot Popsicles (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Jimmy Webb, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting (Hyperion)
• Donovan Webster, Aftermath: The Remnants of War Pantheon
• Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land (Simon and Schuster)
• Kent Weeks, The Lost Tomb (William Morrow)
• Scott Weidensaul, The Ghost With Trembling Wings (North Point Press)
• Scott Weidensaul, Living on the Wind: Across the Globe with Migratory Birds (North Point)
• Andrew Weil, M.D., Eating Well for Optimum Health: the Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition (Knopf)
• Dr. Weil contributed a commentary to Can You Trust Reporters? 01-03-18-A
• Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer, The World of Caffeine: the science and culture of the world's most popular drug (Routledge)
• Robert Weinberg and Lois Gresh The Computers of Star Trek(Basic)
• Robert Weinberg & Lois Gresh, The Science of Superheroes (John Wiley & Sons)
• Samantha Weinberg, A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Harper Collins)
• Jennifer Weiner, Little Earthquakes (Atria)
• Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Knopf)
• Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce (Free Press)
• Alan Weisman, An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past (Harcourt Brace)
• Alan Weisman, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World (Chelsea Green)
• Alan Weisman, The World without Us (Thomas Dunne Books)
• Richard Weiss, The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman
  Vincent Peale (University of Illinois Press)
• James Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk (Doubleday)
• Alex Wellen, Barman: Ping-Pong, Pathos & Passing The Bar (Harmony Books)
• Craig Werner, A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America (Plume Press)
• Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet (Norton)
• Lawrence Weschler, Boggs: A Comedy of Values (University of Chicago)
• Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder Pantheon
• Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country (Free Press)
• Paul West, The Secret Lives of Words (Harcourt)
• Drew Westen, The Political Brain (Perseus)
• Scott Westerfeld, Uglies (Simon & Schuster)
• David Western, In the Dust of Kilimanjaro (Island Press)
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Controversy of Zion Addison Wesley
• Francis Wheen, Karl Marx: A Life (Norton)
• Curtis White, Memories of My Father Watching TV (Dalkey Archive)
• Barbara Ehrlich White, Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges Knopf
• Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony Knopf
• G. Edward White, Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953 Princeton
• Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts (Doubleday)
• Shane White and Graham White: The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons and Speech (Beacon)
• Julia Whitty, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific (Houghton Mifflin)
• David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
• David Whyte, The Heart Aroused (Currency Doubleday)
• Christine Wicker, Lily Dale: the true story of the town that talks to the dead (Harper San Francisco)
• Christine Wicker, Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America (HarperSanFrancisco/HarperCollins)
• Jim Wight, The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father (Ballantine Books)
• Ken Wilber, The Marriage of Sense and Soul (Random House)
• David Wilcove, The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America (Freeman)
• Amy Willensky, Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion (Broadway)
• Nancy Willard, Swimming Lessons: new and selected poems Knopf
• Pat Willard, Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice (Beacon)
• Gwendolyn Williams, Letters for our Children: 50 Americans Share Lessons in Living Random House
• Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Times)
• Kayla Williams, Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army (Norton)
• Saul Williams, Dead Emcee Scrolls (MTV Books)
• Tad Williams, Shadowmarch, Volume I (DAW)
• Terry Tempest Williams, Desert Quartet Pantheon
  (a guest on programs 97-12-07-A and 96-10-06-B)
• Terry Tempest Williams, Leap (Pantheon)
• Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Vintage)
• Chris Willman, Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music (The New Press)
• Christopher Wills, Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution (Perseus)
• Christopher Wills, Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues Addison Wesley
• Garry Wills, A Necessary Evil (Simon & Schuster)
• Garry Wills, John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity Simon and Schuster
• Gary Wills, Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power (Houghton Mifflin)
• Garry Wills, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (Doubleday)
• Gary Wills, St. Augustine (Penguin Lives) (Viking Press)
• Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant (Viking;ISBN: 0670034967)
• Gary Wills, What Paul Meant (Penguin)
• A.N. Wilson, God's Funeral (Norton)
• A.N. Wilson, Paul: the mind of the Apostle Norton
• Barbara Wilson, Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood Picador
• Carl Wilson, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33-1/3 Series/Continuum)
• Cintra Wilson, A Massive Swelling (Viking)
• Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising (Bloomsbury)
• Douglas L. Wilson, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (Knopf)
• Jonathan Wilson, A Palestine Affair (Pantheon)
• Jeff Wiltse, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America (The University of North Carolina Press)
• Simon Winchester A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (Harper Collins)
• Simon Winchester, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Harper Collins
• Simon Winchester The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback) Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
• Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything: the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford)
• Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Harper Collins)
• Martin Winckler, The Case of Doctor Sachs (Seven Stories)
• Mark Winegardner, The Godfather Returns (Random House)
• Mark Winegardner, The Veracruz Blues Viking
• Marion Winik, The Lunch-Box Chronicles: Notes from the Parenting Underground (Pantheon)
• Ellen Winner, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities Basic Books
• Mark Winston, Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard)
• Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (University of Chicago)
• Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook (Knopf)
• Steven Wise and Jane Goodall, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals Perseus Books
• Rosalind Wiseman, Queen Bees & Wannabes (Crown Books)
• Michael Witzel, The American Diner (MBI Publishing)
• Ken Wiwa, In the Shadow of a Saint (Steerforth Press)
• Andrew Wojtanik, Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (National Geographic Society)
• Paula Wolfert, The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen (Wiley)
  
• Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions (Doubleday)
• Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: the secret struggle for womanhood Random House
• Robert Wolf, ed., An American Mosaic: prose and poetry by everyday folk (Oxford)
• Michael Wolfe, The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca (Grove Press)
• Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question Knopf
• Douglas Wolk, Reading Comics - How Graphic Noels Work and What They Mean (Perseus Books/Da Capo Press)
• Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari, Race and Human Evolution - A Fatal Attraction Simon and Schuster
• Gaby Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life (Knopf)
• James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (FSG)
• Michael Wood, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia (University of California)
• Michael Wood, In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends (California)
• Christopher Woodward, In Ruins (Pantheon)
• Sue Woolfe, Leaning Towards Infinity Faber and Faber
• Simon Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer (Plume)
• Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence Houghton Mifflin
• Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America Routledge
• Christopher S. Wren, The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent (Simon and Schuster)
• Robert Wright, Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Pantheon)
• Robin Wright, The Last Great Revolution (Knopf)
• Robert Wrigley, Lives of the Animals: poems (Penguin)
  
• Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes: poems (Penguin)
• Harry Wu, Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty Times Books

BOOKS and AUTHORS

Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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