War and Peace
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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War Storm
Exiled Mare Barrow faces a final war for Norta as Maven breaks down and free lands demand a steep price for peace. Old loves strain as Montfort and Lakeland…
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Warbreaker
Two princesses trade places in an arranged marriage to a god king, while a mercenary chases a sentient sword.
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Warcross
Emika Chen glitches into the Warcross Tokyo championship, joins the Phoenix Riders to hunt the masked Zero, and must face Hideo Tanaka's plan to read minds for…
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Ward D
A med student hides her own psych past while working a locked night shift where meds vanish and doors open.
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Warm Bodies
Zombie R eats Perry, spares Julie, and starts turning human again.
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Watchers
A lonely veteran and a shy woman shelter a genius dog while a lab-made killer hunts them.
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Watching You
A new wife in Bristol fixates on a charismatic neighbor while a teen boy logs every move before a murder.
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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.
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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.
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Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
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Wayward Son
Simon and Baz road trip America after the war to decide what normal means.
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We
In a city of glass ruled by the Benefactor, a state engineer building a spaceship falls for a woman who wants to tear the One State down.
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Rosemary tells of twin sister Fern, a chimp raised as family, and research fallout.
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
A dead software engineer wakes up as a self-replicating space probe, clones himself into a squabbling fleet of Bobs, and tries to keep a ruined Earth alive.
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We Are Okay
Marin fled San Francisco after her grandfather vanished and stopped answering anyone. When Mabel visits her college dorm, she has to say what happened.
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We Begin at the End
Thirteen-year-old Duchess Day Radley shields her little brother Robin after their mother dies, as freed killer Vincent King returns and sick chief Walk tries…
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.
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We Hunt the Flame
In a fractured Arabia-inspired world, a disguised huntress and a prince-assassin race to find a magic-restoring book and confront an ancient evil.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
In letters to her dead husband, Eva reconstructs how her son Kevin grew from a cold child into a school killer.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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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.
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We Were Never Here
Best friends Emily and Kristen hide a backpacker death in Chile, then face another in Vietnam with trust cracking.
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