By Genre of Literary Work - Social realism
- The Weavers
- The Weir
- What a Beautiful Sunday!
- What You Hear from ’Em?
- When I Whistle
- When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth
- When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?
- Where Angels Fear to Tread
- White Fang
- The White Horses of Vienna
- Why Can’t They Tell You Why?
- The Widower’s Son
- The Wife of His Youth
- The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line
- A Wife’s Story
- The Wild Duck
- The Wind from the Plain Trilogy
- The Wine of Astonishment
- Winter Night
- The Winter of Our Discontent
- Winter: 1978
- Wit
- The Witness
- The Woman from Sarajevo
- Woman Hollering Creek
- Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
- A Woman of the Pharisees
- Woman on the Edge of Time
- The Women of Brewster Place
- Women of Messina
- The Women’s Room
- Woodcutters
- The Woodlanders
- The World According to Hsü
- The World My Wilderness
- The World of the Thibaults
- The World’s Illusion
- Xala
- Yankee Dawg You Die
- The Year of the Dragon
- The Year of the Hot Jock
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Yermolai and the Miller’s Wife
- Yonnondio
- Young Lonigan
- The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
- The Zone
