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The Last Man
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1826

The Last Mile
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Last Mission
Harry Mazer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Last Mrs. Parrish
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Last Musketeer (The Last Musketeer, #1)
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Last Namsara (Iskari, #1)
Kristen Ciccarelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Last Neanderthal
Claire Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Last Night of the World
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

The Last Nude
Ellis Avery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15)
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last of August
Brittany Cavallaro

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Last of Her Kind
Sigrid Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Last of the Just
André Schwarz-Bart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1826

The Last of the Moon Girls
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Julie Andrews Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

The Last of the Wine
Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Last Olympian
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Last One
Will Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Last Oracle
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
Norman Eisen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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 2000

The Last Queen
C.W. Gortner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Last Resort
Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

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 1988

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 Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)
Claire North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Last Star
Rick Yancey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
Emily M. Levesque

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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 2005

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 1992

The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Last Unicorn
William Debuys

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

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 Watch (The Divide, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 1937

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 Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
Michael Connelly, Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 1994

The Laughing Man
J.D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

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 1975

The Laundrymen : Inside the World's Third Largest Business
Jeffrey Robinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Lavender Garden
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Law
Frédéric Bastiat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1849

The Law and the Lady
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Law of Love
Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995