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Uprooted

Naomi Novik · 2015

The Dragon takes messy Agnieszka instead of perfect Kasia to his tower, and she must learn wild magic to face the corrupt Wood.

2,338-word summary · 10 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

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

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

Voyager

Diana Gabaldon · 1993

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

2,901-word summary · 13 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

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.

2,536-word summary · 11 min read

Ward D

Freida McFadden · 2023

A med student hides her own psych past while working a locked night shift where meds vanish and doors open.

2,042-word summary · 9 min read

Watchmen

Alan Moore · 1987

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

Sara Gruen · 2006

Water for Elephants retold: Jacob on a circus train, Marlena and Rosie, Prohibition era dust.

1,925-word summary · 9 min read

Watership Down

Richard Adams · 1972

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