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The Lost Girls
John Glatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lost Girls of Devon
Barbara O'Neal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lost Heir
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Lost Jewels
Kirsty Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Joyce Carol Oates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lost Letters of Aisling
Cynthia Ellingsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Lost Library
Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Lost Man
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The lost ones (An Evergreen original E-587)
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1972

The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Sophy Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Prince
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

The Lost Princess of Oz (Oz, #11)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen, #1)
Signe Pike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Shtetl
Max Gross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Sisterhood
Anne Fortier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Lost Summers of Newport
Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Lost Sun (The United States of Asgard, #1)
Tessa Gratton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Village
Camilla Sten, Alexandra Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost Vintage
Ann Mah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Wife
Alyson Richman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Lost Years
T.A. Barron

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1949

The Lottery Rose
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

The Lotterys Plus One
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Lottery Ticket
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Loudest Voice
Grace Paley

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Adelle Waldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Love Dare
Stephen Kendrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1948

The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Love Of A Good Woman
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

The Love of My Afterlife
Kirsty Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Love of My Life
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Love of My Youth
Mary Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Lover
Robin Schone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Love Season
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
Wallace Irwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
Beth Morrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Love That Split the World
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Love Wager
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Love Wife
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Löwensköld Ring
Selma Lagerlöf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Lower Depths
Maxim Gorky

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Luckiest Girl in the World
Steven Levenkron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Lucky Chance (Royal Court Writers)
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lucky Ones
Julianne Pachico

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lullaby Girl (Angie Pallorino, #2)
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lumber Room
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Luminaries
Susan Dennard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

The Luminous Dead
Caitlin Starling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lunatic Cafe
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Luncheon
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Lure of the Labrador Wild
Dillon Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Lusiads
Luís de Camões

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1572

The Luxe
Anna Godbersen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Luzhin Defense
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Lying Game
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lying Woods
Ashley Elston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018