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Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy is Richelle Mead's six-book young adult paranormal series (2007–2010) about Dhampir guardian Rose Hathaway protecting Moroi princess Lissa at St. Vladimir's Academy; adapted as a 2014 film and a cancelled 2022 Peacock series by Julie Plec.
Victoria of Many Faces
Victoria of Many Faces (手札が多めのビクトリア, Tefuda ga Ōme no Victoria) is an ongoing Japanese fantasy light novel series by Syuu and Nanna Fujimi (MF Bunko, 2022), about a defected spy named Victoria, adapted into manga and a 2026 Studio DEEN anime.
Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン)
Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン) is Kana Akatsuki's KA Esuma Bunko light novel series (2015) about an Auto Memory Doll letter ghostwriter, adapted by Kyoto Animation into a 2018 TV anime, 2019 side story film, and 2020 feature film.
Voyager (novel)
Voyager (1993) is Diana Gabaldon's third Outlander novel, reuniting Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser in 1766 Edinburgh after Culloden and carrying them to the West Indies.
Voyages extraordinaires
The Voyages extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages) is the collective title of Jules Verne's series of 62 adventure and science novels, published from 1863 to 1919 and including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Warriors (novel series)
Warriors (Warrior Cats) is a HarperCollins fantasy series about feral cat Clans begun with Into the Wild (2003), written by a team under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, created by Vicky Holmes with writers Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland.
Warriors: Changing Skies
Warriors: Changing Skies is the ninth arc of the Warriors cat-fantasy series by Erin Hunter (HarperCollins), beginning with The Elders' Quest (2025). Its prophecy foretells the Moonpool's destruction and the end of the Clans' link to StarClan amid Twoleg construction.
Water Margin (水浒传)
Water Margin (水浒传, Shuihu Zhuan), fully Loyal and Righteous Water Margin, is China's first long vernacular chaptered novel about Song Jiang's Liangshan uprising. Key facts: disputed Shi Nai'an/Luo Guanzhong authorship, 100/120/70-chapter editions, Jin Shengtan's abridgment, one of the Four Great Classical Novels.
Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!
Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! (追放者食堂へようこそ！, Tsuihōsha Shokudō e Yōkoso!) is a Japanese gourmet fantasy light novel by Yūki Kimikawa and Gaou, serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō from 2018, published by Overlap in three volumes, adapted to manga by Tsumumi and a 2025 OLM anime about chef Dennis and Atelier.
Wind and Truth
Wind and Truth (Viento y Verdad) is Brandon Sanderson's fifth Stormlight Archive novel, published December 6, 2024 by Tor. At about 491,000 words it closes the series' first five-book arc around Dalinar's contest of champions against Odium, debuted at #1 on the NYT list, and is the series' most divisive entry.
Wings of Fire (novel series)
Wings of Fire (novel series), also called the Wings of Fire dragon books, is Tui T. Sutherland's Scholastic middle-grade fantasy series (from 2012): 16 novels in four arcs across Pyrrhia and Pantala, plus Legends, Winglets, graphic novels, and a Prime Video adaptation in development.
Winnetou
Winnetou is Karl May's fictional Mescalero Apache chief, hero of the 1893 trilogy (volumes 7-9 of the Gesammelte Reiseromane) and blood brother of Old Shatterhand; staged at Bad Segeberg since 1952.
Witch and Hound
Witch and Hound (魔女と猟犬, Majo to Ryōken) is a Shogakukan Gagaga Bunko dark fantasy light novel by Rainy Kamitsuki with LAM illustrations, about assassin Rollo, the Black Dog, gathering seven witches against magic-monopolizing Amelia; adapted into a 4-volume Minori Tsukahara manga and a 2026 TriF Studio TV anime.
Witch King (novel)
Witch King (Martha Wells, Tordotcom, May 2023) is a fantasy novel about the demon Kaiisteron, the Witch King, told in dual timelines against the Hierarchs; Locus Award winner, sequel Queen Demon (2025).
Without Remorse
Without Remorse: 1993 Tom Clancy thriller in the Jack Ryan universe, the origin story of Navy SEAL John Kelly becoming John Clark; loosely adapted into the 2021 Michael B. Jordan Prime Video film directed by Stefano Sollima.
Wizard's First Rule
Wizard's First Rule is Terry Goodkind's 1994 Tor Books debut and Book One of the Sword of Truth series, following Seeker Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, and Zedd against Darken Rahl and the Boxes of Orden.
Words of Radiance
Words of Radiance is the 2014 second book of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, published by Tor, with Shallan-focused flashbacks, originally titled The Book of Endless Pages, and a #1 New York Times bestseller.
World Without End (Follett novel)
World Without End is Ken Follett's 2007 Kingsbridge novel, a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth set in 1327-1361, following four children bound by a witnessed killing through the Black Death and Hundred Years War.
Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Senior Year Adventures book 2; Percy Jackson and the Olympians book 7) is Rick Riordan's 2024 novel in which Percy, Annabeth, and Grover pet-sit Hecate's escaped pets in New York while Percy earns a college recommendation letter.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (MOBY) is the eighth Outlander novel by Diana Gabaldon, published June 10, 2014, set in 1778 during the American Revolution, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Xanth
Xanth is a long-running series of comic fantasy novels by Piers Anthony, set in a magical Florida-shaped land where every human has a unique talent; it began in 1977.
You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの?!)
You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの!?) is a completed 7-volume Dengeki Bunko age-gap romance light novel by Kota Nozomi and Giuniu, in which university student Takumi confesses to Ayako, the single mother who raised his childhood friend, with a manga adaptation by Tesshin Azuma.
Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta
Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta (弱気MAX令嬢なのに、辣腕婚約者様の賭けに乗ってしまった), a Japanese isekai romance light novel by Oda Hiro, serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō from 2020, published by KADOKAWA's B's-LOG bunko, adapted to manga and a 2026 TV anime.