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Us Against You

Fredrik Backman · 2017

Beartown fights Hed for players and pride after scandal, and loyalty costs more the second year.

2,133-word summary · 9 min read

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore · 1988

A masked rebel stalks fascist London while lost girl Evey finds her nerve, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1988 DC graphic novel.

2,991-word summary · 13 min read

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 2007

Dhampir Rose guards her vampire best friend Lissa after they are dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy.

2,047-word summary · 9 min read

Vampire Knight, Vol. 1

Matsuri Hino · 2005

Guardian Yuki protects Day students from secret vampire Night Class while Zero hates what he may become.

2,106-word summary · 9 min read

Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult · 2005

A search-and-rescue worker's perfect life cracks when her past and her father catch up.

2,799-word summary · 12 min read

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848

Becky Sharp schemes her way up Regency society while loyal Amelia waits, in Thackeray's witty novel without a hero.

2,698-word summary · 12 min read

Vengeful

V. E. Schwab · 2018

Victor and Eli return deadlier as new EOs rise and old debts burn.

2,488-word summary · 11 min read

Verity

Colleen Hoover · 2018

Colleen Hoover's Verity explained: Lowen, injured Verity Crawford, the hidden autobiography, and the letter that flips everything.

2,593-word summary · 12 min read

Veronika Decides to Die

Paulo Coelho · 1998

After a failed suicide attempt, a young woman in a Slovenian asylum learns she has days to live and starts to want them.

2,224-word summary · 10 min read

Vicious

V. E. Schwab · 2013

Two friends test death for powers, lose a friend, then spend ten years as hero killer and escaped revenge.

2,015-word summary · 9 min read

Vigil

George Saunders · 2026

A dying oil tycoon meets ghosts in Saunders' Bardo return.

2,434-word summary · 11 min read

Violeta

Isabel Allende · 2022

A woman born in 1920 writes her life story to her grandson, from one pandemic to another, through wealth, ruin, passion, and dictatorship in South America.

2,555-word summary · 11 min read

Vision in White

Nora Roberts · 2009

Wedding photographer Mac Elliot does not believe in lasting love. Steady teacher Carter Maguire plans to change her mind. First in the Bride Quartet.

2,167-word summary · 10 min read

Vow of Thieves

Mary E. Pearson · 2019

Kazi and Jase return to Tor's Watch to find it occupied, and their marriage is tested by captivity, betrayal, and a war for the town of Hell's Mouth.

2,059-word summary · 9 min read

Voyager

Diana Gabaldon · 1993

Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.

2,901-word summary · 13 min read

Wait for It

Mariana Zapata · 2016

A twenty-nine-year-old hairstylist raising her two nephews meets her new neighbor, a former Navy man mid-divorce, in Zapata's slow-burn romance about trust and…

2,154-word summary · 10 min read

Wait for You

J. Lynn · 2013

Avery flees Texas for college to bury her past, but patient Cam Hamilton refuses to stay a stranger.

2,866-word summary · 13 min read

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · 1952

Two tramps wait by a tree for Godot who never comes, with jokes, boots, and silence.

2,045-word summary · 9 min read

Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 1854

Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond and spends two years testing what a person really needs to live well.

2,986-word summary · 13 min read

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech · 1994

Sal rides west with her grandparents telling Phoebe's story while facing her own mother's absence in Idaho.

2,554-word summary · 11 min read

Walking Disaster

Jamie McGuire · 2013

Travis Maddox retells his bet with Abby from his side, from dorm fights to a Vegas wedding.

3,270-word summary · 15 min read

Wall and Piece

Banksy · 2005

Stencil rats and police with jokes that sting power then linger.

2,024-word summary · 9 min read

Wallbanger

Alice Clayton · 2012

Caroline battles thin walls and a charming playboy neighbor in San Francisco, then falls for him.

1,947-word summary · 9 min read