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The Last Star (novel)
The Last Star (2016) by Rick Yancey is the third and final book of the 5th Wave YA alien-invasion trilogy from Putnam, following Cassie Sullivan and Ringer over a four-day countdown against the Others, distinguished from other novels of the same title by William Proctor and others.
The Last Summer of Reason
The Last Summer of Reason is a dystopian novel by the Algerian writer Tahar Djaout, published posthumously in 1999 about a bookseller under a theocratic regime.
The Last Term
The Last Term (Russian: «Последний срок») is a 1970 novella by Valentin Rasputin in which an eighty-year-old village woman, Anna, lies dying while her adult children gather to say farewell.
The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon
The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon (興津弥五右衛門の遺書) is a 1912 historical short story by Mori Ōgai, written in the form of a retainer's testament to his son, ending with his junshi.
The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon (The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished Hollywood novel about producer Monroe Stahr, modeled on Irving Thalberg; begun 1939, published posthumously 1941, edited by Edmund Wilson.
The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle's 1968 fantasy novel (Viking), follows the last unicorn's quest with Schmendrick and Molly Grue against King Haggard and the Red Bull; adapted into the 1982 Rankin/Bass animated film with Mia Farrow and Christopher Lee.
The Last Wish
The Last Wish (Ostatnie życzenie) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 1993 Polish short story collection opening The Witcher series chronologically, introducing Geralt of Rivia and Yennefer; first translated by Danusia Stok in 2007, with a David French re-translation due 2027.
The Late Mattia Pascal
The Late Mattia Pascal (Il fu Mattia Pascal) is a 1904 novel by Luigi Pirandello about a man believed dead who lives under a new name.
The Laughing Cry
The Laughing Cry (Le Pleurer-rire) is a 1983 satirical novel by Congolese writer Henri Lopes about a military dictator who seizes power in an unnamed African state.
The Laughing Policeman
The Laughing Policeman (Swedish: Den skrattande polisen) is a 1968 police procedural by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, following Martin Beck's investigation of a Stockholm bus shooting.
The Lawnmower Man
The Lawnmower Man: Stephen King short story (written 1970, published Cavalier 1975, collected in Night Shift) about a Pan-worshiping lawnmower man, and the unrelated 1992 virtual reality film whose King credit King successfully sued to remove.
The Lay of Igor's Campaign
The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o polku Ihorevi) is a late 12th-century epic poem about Prince Igor Sviatoslavich's failed 1185 campaign against the Cumans.
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke (Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke) is a prose poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, first published in 1906.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's 1999 neo-Victorian comic series uniting Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Griffin, and Edward Hyde in an 1898 world where all fiction coexists; creator-owned, it ran through The Tempest (2019) and a poorly received 2003 film.
The Leftovers (novel)
The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta's 2011 St. Martin's Press novel, follows the Garvey family of Mapleton three years after the Sudden Departure, a Rapture-like event in which about 2% of the world vanishes; adapted into a three-season HBO series with Damon Lindelof.
The Legend of Drizzt
The Legend of Drizzt is R.A. Salvatore's long-running Forgotten Realms fantasy series starring drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden, begun with The Crystal Shard (1988), reaching 39 novels by 2023 and continuing with a new daughter-led saga.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving's 1820 Sketch Book short story, follows schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman in a Dutch Hudson Valley settlement; narrated by fictitious historian Diedrich Knickerbocker and widely adapted, notably in Tim Burton's 1999 film.
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传)
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传, also 大漠英雄传) is Jin Yong's 1957–1959 wuxia novel, first of the Condor Trilogy, following Guo Jing and Huang Rong in Song-era China; revised in the 1970s, adapted to screen at least nine times, and translated into English 2018–2021 by Anna Holmwood and co-translators.
The Legend of the Dead Soldier
The Legend of the Dead Soldier (Die Legende vom toten Soldaten) is a satirical antiwar poem by Bertolt Brecht, in which a dead soldier is dug up and sent back to war.
The Legend of the Lake of the Restored Sword
The Legend of the Lake of the Restored Sword is a Vietnamese tale in which emperor Lê Lợi returns a heaven-sent sword to a golden turtle in Hanoi.
The Legend of the Legendary Heroes (伝説の勇者の伝説)
The Legend of the Legendary Heroes (伝説の勇者の伝説, Densetsu no Yūsha no Densetsu) is Takaya Kagami's fantasy light novel series, 11 volumes from 2002, with 2010 TV anime, manga, and a sequel completed at 18 volumes in 2025.
The Legend of the Miraculous Hind
The Legend of the Miraculous Hind is the Hungarian origin legend in which a miraculous hind leads the brothers Hunor and Magyar to found the Huns and Hungarians.
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii is an 1888 collection of Hawaiian legends published in New York under the name of King Kalākaua, edited by Rollin Mallory Daggett.
The Legends of Tōno
The Legends of Tōno (Tono monogatari, 遠野物語) is a 1910 collection of 119 Japanese folk tales from Tōno, Iwate Prefecture, compiled by Kunio Yanagita from stories told by Sasaki Kizen.
The Legionnaires
The Legionnaires (Legionärerna) is a 1968 documentary novel by the Swedish author Per Olov Enquist about Sweden's extradition of Baltic soldiers to the Soviet Union in 1946.
The Leopard
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's only novel, published posthumously in 1958; it follows Sicilian Prince Fabrizio Corbera through Italian unification, won the 1959 Strega Prize, and inspired Visconti's Palme d'Or 1963 film.
The Less Deceived
The Less Deceived is a 1955 poetry collection by Philip Larkin, published by the Marvell Press of Hessle, Yorkshire, containing "Church Going", "At Grass", and "Deceptions".
The Lesser Blessed
The Lesser Blessed is a 1996 debut novel by the Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) Canadian writer Richard Van Camp, following Dogrib teenager Larry Sole in the northern town of Fort Simmer.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh are the painter's surviving correspondence, 902 letters written from 1872 to 1890, mostly to his brother Theo, documenting his art and ideas.
The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club is a 1995 memoir by American poet Mary Karr, recounting her childhood in Leechfield, East Texas, with a storytelling father and a volatile alcoholic mother.