Average reading time5h 1m
What's Wrong With the World
What's Wrong With the World is a book by G. K. Chesterton. Its subjects include Social problems.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1717
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Average reading time4h 41m
Wheels of Chance
The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat. In 1922 it was adapted into a silent film The Wheels of Chance directed by Harold M. Shaw.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1264
Average reading time4h 11m
When William Came
When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by the British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and published in November 1913. It is set several years in what was then the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain in which the former won.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 14540
Average reading time4h 10m
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1905 novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 2948
Average reading time12h 36m
White Company
The White Company is a historical adventure novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward the Black Prince, to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 903
Average reading time6h 2m
White Fang
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) about a wild wolf dog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. First serialized in Outing magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in October 1906.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 910
Average reading time3h 56m
White Linen Nurse
White Linen Nurse is a book by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. Its subjects include Nurses.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 14506
Average reading time1h 49m
Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be
Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be is a book by Irwin Leslie Gordon. Its subjects include American wit and humor; Parodies; Biography, Humor.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 984
Average reading time4h 55m
Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 289
Average reading time19h 54m
Winter’s Heart
Winter's Heart is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the ninth book of his series Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on November 7, 2000.
Average reading time5h 55m
Wintersmith
Wintersmith is a comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, set in the Discworld and written with younger readers in mind. It is labelled a "Story of Discworld" to indicate its status as children's or young adult fiction, unlike most of the books in the Discworld series.
Average reading time6h 59m
Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad is the twelfth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, originally published in 1991.
Average reading time22h 43m
Wives and Daughters
Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue du Bac in Paris.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 4274
Average reading time21h 9m
Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass: Regard, or simply Wizard and Glass, is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. The fourth book in the Dark Tower series, published in 1997 it placed fourth in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel. Dave McKean created eighteen Illustrations for The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. The original eighteen illustrations appear only in the first edition hardback and trade paperback released in 1997.
Average reading time2h 29m
Wodehouse Miscellany
Wodehouse Miscellany is a book by P. G. Wodehouse. Its subjects include Humorous stories, English; Wooster, Bertie (Fictitious character); Jeeves (Fictitious character).
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 8190
Average reading time19h 50m
Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the fifth book in his The Dark Tower series.
Average reading time2h 45m
Wonderful Bed
Wonderful Bed is a book by Gertrude Knevels. Its subjects include Fantasy literature; Siblings, Juvenile fiction.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 11116
Average reading time9h 43m
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 768
Average reading time7h 11m
Wyrd Sisters
Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988. It re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites.
Average reading time6h 49m
Yellowface
Yellowface is a 2023 satirical novel written by R. F. Kuang. The book was described as a satire of racial diversity in the publishing industry as well as a metafiction about social media, particularly Twitter.
Average reading time5h 7m
Yosemite
Yosemite is a book by John Muir. Its subjects include Yosemite Valley (Calif.); Yosemite National Park (Calif.); F850.5.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 7091
Average reading time1h 12m
Young Adventure, A Book of Poems
Young Adventure, A Book of Poems is a book by Stephen Vincent Benét. Its subjects include American poetry.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 312
Average reading time1h 15m
Young Visiters
Margaret Mary Julia Devlin (née Ashford; 3 April 1881 – 15 January 1972), known as Daisy Ashford, was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late-19th-century England, when she was nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation. She wrote the title as "Viseters" in her manuscript, but it was published as "Visiters".
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 21415
Average reading time1h 7m
Youth, a Narrative
Youth, a Narrative is a book by Joseph Conrad. Its subjects include Fiction; Sea stories; Adventure stories.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 525
Average reading time2h 37m
Zadig or the Book of Fate
Zadig or the Book of Fate is a book by Voltaire. Its subjects include Manners and customs; French literature, 18th century; Political fiction, French.
Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 18972
Average reading time15h 8m
Dune
Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine. It is the first installment of the Dune Chronicles.
Average reading time37h 3m
It
It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity called It, which exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey.
Average reading time30h 29m
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 epic Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically.
Average reading time11h 54m
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of a family moving to Maine and settling closer to a pet cemetery in the woods, which is home to a terrifying force that brings death and sorrow. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and adapted into two films: one in 1989 and another in 2019 as well as several spinoffs.
Average reading time10h 10m
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Average reading time29h 12m
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality.
Average reading time38h 41m
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. The novel is set in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean Sea during the historical events of 1815–1839, the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe I.
Average reading time7h 57m
The Hobbit
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit who joins the wizard Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug.
Average reading time4h 54m
The Road
The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
Average reading time13h 48m
The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is King's third published novel and first hardcover bestseller; its success firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre.
Average reading time39h 18m
The Stand
The Stand is an epic post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which some of the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other.
Average reading time46h 47m
War and Peace
War and Peace is an epic novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The book chronicles the French invasion of Russia and its aftermath during the Napoleonic era.