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The Long Game
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Shaun Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Long Haul
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Finn Murphy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Long Home
William Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Sun Shuyun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Long Patrol
Brian Jacques, Allan Curless

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

The Long Secret (Harriet the Spy #2)
Louise Fitzhugh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1965

The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Daisy Bates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Long Song
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Long Take
Robin Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Long Tomorrow
Leigh Brackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Long Valley
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1938

The Long View
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Long Walk
Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Long Way Home
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Weekend
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Look of Love
Bella Andre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Loose Ends List
Carrie Firestone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lorax
Dr. Seuss

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1971

The Lord God Made Them All
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

The Lord of Opium
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lords of Discipline
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Lords of Easy Money
Christopher Leonard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Loser
Thomas Bernhard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Losers Club
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Lost
Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Lost and Found Bookshop
Susan Wiggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Daniel Mendelsohn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lost Book of the Grail
Charlie Lovett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lost Book of the White
Wesley Chu, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Lost Bookshop
Evie Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
Amanda M. Fairbanks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost Child: and Other Stories [Jan 30, 2005] Anand, Mulk Raj
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lost City of Faar
D.J. MacHale

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Colony
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Lost Continent
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Lost Daughter
Gill Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Daughters of China
Karin Evans

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
Jim Gorant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Duke of Wyndham
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lost Family
Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Holly Ringland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost & Found
Katrina Leno

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Lost Gate
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Lost Girl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 | Middle Grade | 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 1970

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Jonathan Harr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Sophy Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Prince
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1915

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1917

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

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Ticket
Freya Sampson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Lost Village
Camilla Sten, Alexandra Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2) (The Lost World Series)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Years
T.A. Barron

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1996

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 | Published in 1887

The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Lotus Shoes
Jane Yang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Loudest Voice
Grace Paley

Fiction | Short Story | Adult