Witches
Colin Hawkins's rhyming picture book teaches small readers to spot witches, flaps and all.
2,783-word summary · 12 min read
Books: W
120 books starting with W.
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Witches Abroad
Three Lancre witches fly to Genua to stop a fairy godmother from forcing a servant girl into a storybook marriage, and find a city arranged around a happy…
2,651-word summary · 12 min read
Wither
In a future where women die at twenty, sixteen-year-old Rhine is sold as a bride to a wealthy stranger and plots an escape from a beautiful prison.
2,395-word summary · 11 min read
Without Fail
Reacher is asked to test vice presidential security by planning to kill.
2,084-word summary · 9 min read
Without Merit
Merit Voss feels invisible in a crowded converted church home until Sagan, Luck, and a painful night force the truth out.
3,300-word summary · 15 min read
Wizard and Glass
Stuck on a deadly train, Roland tells of Susan Delgado and how the tower took his youth.
1,938-word summary · 9 min read
Wizard's First Rule
Woods guide Richard joins Kahlan and wizard Zedd to find the Boxes of Orden before Darken Rahl, learning why people believe lies.
2,220-word summary · 10 min read
Wolf Hall
In Mantel's Booker winner, Thomas Cromwell rises from a Putney forge to Henry VIII's council, steering the annulment crisis past Wolsey's fall toward a break…
2,911-word summary · 13 min read
Wolf Hour
In Minneapolis, suspended detective Bob Oz hunts sniper Tomas Gomez in 2016 while a Norwegian writer revisits the case in 2022 with secrets.
2,202-word summary · 10 min read
Wolves of the Calla
Roland and his ka tet defend a farming town from robotic Wolves while Father Callahan offers a deadly magic ball.
2,331-word summary · 10 min read
Woman Down
A blocked author hides out at a lakeside cabin and falls for a detective who may be muse, lover, or trap in Hoover's twisty 2026 thriller.
2,445-word summary · 11 min read
Wool Omnibus
In a buried silo, a sheriff asks to go outside, and a mechanic learns why no one returns from cleaning.
2,095-word summary · 9 min read
Words of Radiance
Kaladin guards Dalinar, Shallan hunts Urithiru, and the Everstorm gathers.
2,754-word summary · 12 min read
World After
Penryn wakes from near-death to find her altered sister Paige hunted as a monster, and follows her into the angels' scorpion factory and Uriel's coup.
2,213-word summary · 10 min read
World War Z
A UN researcher collects survivor accounts from Patient Zero in China to Yonkers and the Redeker Plan, charting the zombie war.
2,248-word summary · 10 min read
World Without End
Four children witness a killing, then plague, war, and church shape builder, healer, peasant, lord.
1,999-word summary · 9 min read
Worth Dying For
Reacher stops for one night in rural Nebraska and finds a family that runs the county, a missing girl and a shipment worth killing for.
2,021-word summary · 9 min read
Wretched
The Wicked Witch of the West becomes a heroin chemist, and the DEA agent sent to destroy her family falls for the very woman he was assigned to ruin.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
Writers & Lovers
A broke waitress in Boston grieves her mother, finishes a novel, and chooses between two men.
2,473-word summary · 11 min read
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
1778 war splits Jamies and Claires across rebellion and time as Brianna hunts a kidnapped son.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
2,522-word summary · 11 min read
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.
2,056-word summary · 9 min read
Wyrd Sisters
Three Lancre witches rescue a murdered king's baby, hide Lancre's future, and trap a guilty duke with a play in Ankh-Morpork.
3,085-word summary · 14 min read