War and Peace
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
2,536-word summary · 11 min read
Books: W
26 books starting with W.
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Watchmen
A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking bid for peace, from…
2,762-word summary · 12 min read
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants retold: Jacob on a circus train, Marlena and Rosie, Prohibition era dust.
1,925-word summary · 9 min read
Watership Down
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
4,357-word summary · 19 min read
We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair returns to Beechwood Island after an accident she cannot recall, chasing summers with Johnny, Mirren and Gat toward the truth.
1,923-word summary · 9 min read
We'll Always Have Summer
Belly must choose between Conrad and Jeremiah after two years with Jeremiah and a wedding plan at Cousins.
2,540-word summary · 11 min read
What Alice Forgot
After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger.
2,495-word summary · 11 min read
When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
2,060-word summary · 9 min read
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing: Kya the Marsh Girl, Tate and Chase, the 1969 murder in Barkley Cove, and what the trial misses.
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
Where the Red Fern Grows
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
2,990-word summary · 13 min read
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Sidewalk Ends retold: poems and drawings, Sarah Cynthia, unicorns, homework and giants.
1,952-word summary · 9 min read