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The Vintner's Luck
The Vintner's Luck is a 1998 novel by New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox, following a Burgundian winemaker's fifty-five-year friendship with an angel through annual vineyard meetings.
The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides (1993) is Jeffrey Eugenides's debut novel about the five Lisbon sisters of suburban Detroit who die by suicide in one year, narrated collectively and unreliably by middle-aged neighborhood boys; adapted in Sofia Coppola's 1999 directorial debut film.
The Vision of Judgment
The Vision of Judgment is an 1821 satirical poem in ottava rima by Lord Byron, written in Ravenna as a burlesque of Robert Southey's panegyric on King George III.
The Visit of the Royal Physician
The Visit of the Royal Physician (Livläkarens besök) is a 1999 historical novel by Per Olov Enquist about Johann Friedrich Struensee, the physician who ruled Denmark.
The Vivisectors
The Vivisectors is a 2026 novel by Missouri Williams, her second after The Doloriad, following misanthropic narrator Agathe, an assistant to a professor in a decaying university city, longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is C. S. Lewis's 1952 Narnia novel, third in publication order, following Caspian, Eustace Scrubb, and Reepicheep east toward the world's edge; adapted by the BBC and in a 2010 Michael Apted film.
The Voyeur
The Voyeur (Le Voyeur) is a 1955 novel by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, following a watch salesman through a day when a young girl is murdered.
The Wages of Fear (novel)
Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear), Georges Arnaud's 1950 debut novel, follows four desperate men driving nitroglycerine trucks 300 miles through Guatemala; source of Clouzot's 1953 film and Friedkin's Sorcerer.
The Waiting Years
The Waiting Years (Onnazaka) is a 1957 novel by Fumiko Enchi portraying women's suffering under the patriarchal Meiji-era family system; it won the 1957 Noma Prize.
The Walking Dead (comic book)
The Walking Dead (comic book): Image Comics black-and-white series by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, art from #7 by Charlie Adlard; 193 issues, October 2003 to July 2019, over 45 million copies sold, Eisner winner, basis of the AMC series.
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll's 1871 nonsense ballad from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 4, recited by Tweedledee: a walrus and carpenter lure and eat young oysters; 18 stanzas, ABCBDB meter.
The Wanderer (Old English poem)
The Wanderer: an anonymous 115-line Old English elegy surviving only in the tenth-century Exeter Book. Its exiled eardstapa mourns a lost lord and mead-hall; its ubi sunt passage laments vanished heroic joys.
The Wandering Inn
The Wandering Inn is an ongoing LitRPG fantasy web serial by pseudonymous author pirateaba, begun July 2016. Erin Solstice becomes an [Innkeeper] in a leveled fantasy world; 16+ million words, ten volumes, HarperCollins print edition 2026.
The Wandering Islands
The Wandering Islands is a 1955 poetry collection, the first book of verse by the Australian poet A. D. Hope, published in Sydney and winner of the Grace Leven Prize.
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop is a 1986 book publishing the secret diaries Australian surgeon Edward "Weary" Dunlop kept as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
The War of Greedy Witches
The War of Greedy Witches (Majo Taisen: 32-nin no Isai no Majo wa Koroshiau, 魔女大戦) is a seinen manga by Homura Kawamoto and Makoto Shiozuka, serialized in Monthly Comic Zenon since 2020, about 32 historical witches fighting a Walpurgis death tournament.
The War of the End of the World
The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo) is a 1981 historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa about the War of Canudos in Brazil.
The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)
The War of the Worlds broadcast (Mercury Theatre on the Air, CBS, October 30, 1938): Orson Welles and Howard Koch's news-bulletin adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, its audience, the disputed panic, FCC inquiry, and path to Citizen Kane.
The War on Warriors
The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men who Keep us Free, Pete Hegseth's fifth book (Fox News Books/Broadside, June 4, 2024), argues DEI and lowered standards eroded military meritocracy; a 2024 bestseller tied to his Defense Secretary nomination.
The Warden
The Warden is an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope, the first of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, about a clergyman challenged over his almshouse income.
The Warlord Chronicles
The Warlord Chronicles is Bernard Cornwell's three-novel Arthurian trilogy, The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur (1995-1997), narrated by the monk Derfel and retelling Arthur as a sixth-century warlord, not a king, in post-Roman Britain.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns is a 2010 work of narrative nonfiction by journalist Isabel Wilkerson recounting the Great Migration of about six million Black Americans out of the Jim Crow South.
The Wasp Factory
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks's 1984 debut novel (Macmillan, his 30th birthday), narrated by teenage Frank Cauldhame on a Scottish island; Gothic transgressive fiction famous for its wasp-oracle device, 1984 controversy, and gender-twist ending.
The Wasps
The Wasps (Greek: Σφῆκες) is a comedy by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes, first performed at the Lenaia festival of 422 BC, that satirizes the Athenian jury courts and the citizens addicted to serving on them.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a 435-line poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1922 and regarded as a defining work of literary modernism, reflecting postwar cultural emptiness.
The Water Magician (水属性の魔法使い) (novel series)
The Water Magician (水属性の魔法使い) is a Japanese isekai fantasy light novel series by Tadashi Kubō, serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō from 2020 and published by TO Books from 2021, about reincarnated water mage Ryo; it has manga, junior, and 2025 TBS anime adaptations.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 is a 1995 children's historical novel by Christopher Paul Curtis about an African American family from Flint, Michigan.
The Wave (novel)
The Wave (Die Welle), 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser as Morton Rhue; novelization of Norman Lear's ABC-TV movie, dramatizing Ron Jones's 1967 Third Wave fascism experiment at Cubberley High School, Palo Alto.
The Waves
The Waves (1931) is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel, published by the Hogarth Press; six characters, Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Rhoda, and Jinny, speak soliloquies framed by sea interludes, with the silent Percival at the group's center.
The Way of a Pilgrim
The Way of a Pilgrim is an anonymous nineteenth-century Russian spiritual narrative in which a wandering peasant learns to practice the Jesus Prayer without ceasing.