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The Last Original Wife
Dorothea Benton Frank

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
Gregg Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Last Painting of Sara De Vos
Dominic Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Last Patriot
Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Last Picture Show
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)
Kristen Lepionka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Policeman
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Last Queen
C.W. Gortner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Last Resort
Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Romantics
Tara Conklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Rose of Shanghai
Weina Dai Randel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Last Runaway
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Last September
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1929

The Last Ship
William Brinkley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Last Sin Eater
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Last Sister
Kendra Elliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Last Star
Rick Yancey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last Straw
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Last Sultan
Robert Greenfield

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Last Summer of You and Me
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Last Taxi Driver
Lee Durkee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last Templar
Raymond Khoury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Last Thing I Remember
Andrew Klavan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Last Thing She Ever Did
Gregg Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Last Time I Lied: A Novel
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Last Time I Saw You
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Time I Was Me
Cathy Lamb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Last Time We Say Goodbye
Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Last to Vanish
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Last Town On Earth
Thomas Mullen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family, #3)
Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
Edvard Radzinsky, Эдвард Радзинский

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

The Last Vampire (The Last Vampire, #1)
Christopher Pike

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Last Voyage of Columbus
Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
Michael David Lukas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Last Werewolf
Glen Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Last White Man: A Novel
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Last Widow
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Word
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Last Year of the War
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Late George Apley
John P. Marquand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Latehomecomer
Kao Kalia Yang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Late Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Lathe Of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Laughing Corpse
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Laughing Man
J.D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Laugh of the Medusa
Hélène Cixous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Lavender Garden
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Law
Frédéric Bastiat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Law and the Lady
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Law of Love
Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1)
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Layover
Lacie Waldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lazarus Project
Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Leadership Challenge
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
Alan Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)
Rex Stout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Leap
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Leavers
Lisa Ko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ledge
Jim Davidson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Leftovers
Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Legacy
Katherine Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

The Legend of Good Women
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385