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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is a 1971 novel by Australian writer David Ireland about oil refinery workers, and the first of his three Miles Franklin Award winners.
The Unseen
The Unseen (De usynlige) is a 2013 novel by the Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen about a poor family living on a small island off the Helgeland coast.
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished is a 1938 novel by William Faulkner, his tenth, following young Bayard Sartoris and his family through the Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi.
The Unworthy
The Unworthy (Las indignas) is a 2023 dystopian horror novel by Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (Scribner, 2025). Set in a post-apocalyptic convent of the Sacred Sisterhood, it follows an unworthy caste woman's secret diary and her bond with Lucía.
The Uses of Literacy
The Uses of Literacy is Richard Hoggart's 1957 book on how mass media was changing English working-class life, and a founding text of cultural studies.
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear (1915) is Arthur Conan Doyle's fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, serialized in the Strand 1914–1915, based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland, with a two-part murder and American flashback plot.
The Vampire Armand
The Vampire Armand (1998) is Anne Rice's sixth Vampire Chronicles novel, published by Knopf, narrating the 500-year life of the vampire Armand from Kiev Rus and Renaissance Venice to New Orleans, reviving him after Memnoch the Devil.
The Vampire Chronicles
The Vampire Chronicles: Anne Rice's gothic vampire novel series begun with Interview with the Vampire (1976), centered on Lestat de Lioncourt; later revived with Prince Lestat and adapted as 1994 and 2002 films and AMC's Immortal Universe.
The Vampire Diaries (novel series)
The Vampire Diaries is a young-adult vampire romance novel series created by L. J. Smith, published 1991–2014 in thirteen volumes about Elena Gilbert and the Salvatore brothers, later a CW TV franchise.
The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat (1985, Knopf) is Anne Rice's second Vampire Chronicles novel, Lestat de Lioncourt's autobiography from 1760 France, made a vampire by Magnus, to his 1980s rock stardom and breaking of the vampire code of silence; adapted as AMC's retitled season 3 series with Sam Reid.
The Vampyre
The Vampyre; A Tale (1819) by John William Polidori, also known as 'The Vampyre', is the first vampire story in English prose, originally misattributed to Lord Byron. It created the aristocratic seducer Lord Ruthven and the modern vampire archetype.
The Vaster Wilds
The Vaster Wilds is a 2023 historical survival novel by Lauren Groff, following a servant girl who flees a settlement modeled on Jamestown during the starving time of 1609.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian (채식주의자) is Han Kang's 2007 three-part Korean novel about Yeong-hye, who stops eating meat after violent dreams; Deborah Smith's 2015 English translation won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, the first for a Korean work, amid a mistranslation controversy.
The Veiled Suite
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems is a 2009 posthumous collection of the Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali's poetry, published by W. W. Norton and Penguin Books India.
The Veldt (short story)
"The Veldt," also "The World the Children Made," is Ray Bradbury's 1950 science fiction short story of the Hadley family, whose automated Happylife Home and virtual nursery with fatal lions destroy them; collected in The Illustrated Man.
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real is a 1922 children's classic by Margery Williams Bianco, illustrated by William Nicholson, about a toy rabbit made Real by a child's love; first serialized in Harper's Bazaar in 1921.
The Vermilion Mask
The Vermilion Mask (朱色の仮面, Shuiro no Kamen) is a Japanese seinen manga by Dr.Poro and Nabana Naba, serialized in Young King OURs since 2021, adapted into a two-cour 100studio anime premiering October 2026 on Crunchyroll.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (はらぺこあおむし) is Eric Carle's 1969 die-cut picture book about a caterpillar eating through a week of food before becoming a butterfly; over 50 million copies sold in more than 60 languages.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is Sangu Mandanna's 2022 cozy fantasy romance (Berkley) about Mika Moon, a lonely witch hired to tutor three young witches at Nowhere House, finding found family and love with librarian Jamie Kelly.
The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield is a 1766 novel by Oliver Goldsmith, his only novel, telling of Dr. Primrose, a country vicar whose family falls into ruin and is restored.
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard), Dumas and Maquet's 1847–1850 novel closing the d'Artagnan Romances, set under Louis XIV and including The Man in the Iron Mask.
The Victims
The Victims is the first novel by the Nigerian writer Isidore Okpewho, published by Longman in 1970, a tragedy of rivalry in a polygamous household in the village of Ozala.
The Victorian Church
The Victorian Church is a two-volume history of Christianity in Victorian England by Owen Chadwick, published 1966 and 1970, opening with the claim that Victorian England was religious.
The Vile Village
The Vile Village is Book the Seventh of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (HarperCollins, April 24, 2001). The Baudelaire orphans live in the crow-ruled village V.F.D., face Count Olaf, and after this turning-point book are deemed criminals with no further guardians.
The Village Blacksmith
"The Village Blacksmith" is an 1840 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portraying a village blacksmith as a model of honest labor and perseverance through grief.
The Village in August
The Village in August (八月的乡村) is a 1935 novel by the Chinese writer Xiao Jun, published under the pen name Tian Jun with a preface by Lu Xun.
The Village in the Jungle
The Village in the Jungle is a 1913 novel by Leonard Woolf, his first, drawing on his service as a colonial administrator in British Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.
The Village of Stepanchikovo
The Village of Stepanchikovo, also published as The Friend of the Family, is an 1859 comic novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, his first major work after Siberian exile.
The Villager of Level 999
The Villager of Level 999 (LV999 no Murabito) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series by Koneko Hoshitsuki about Koji Kagami, a villager who reaches Level 999.
The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom (悪役令嬢は隣国の王太子に溺愛される)
The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom (悪役令嬢は隣国の王太子に溺愛される) is a Punichan villainess romance web novel from 2016, published by B's-LOG Bunko with 5.6 million copies, adapted as manga, an otome game, and a January 2026 TV anime.