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The Little Match Girl
The Little Match Girl (Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne), Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 Danish fairy tale: a barefoot girl freezes on New Year's Eve, sees visions in her matches, and dies; first published December 1845.
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid (Den lille Havfrue), Hans Christian Andersen's literary fairy tale first published 7 April 1837 in Eventyr, fortalte for Born; a mermaid trades her voice for legs to win a prince and an immortal soul; Disney's 1989 film gave it a happy ending.
The Little Prince
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 illustrated philosophical fable of a Sahara-stranded pilot and a boy from asteroid B 612, first published in New York, with about 400 translations and nearly 200 million copies sold.
The Little Red Hen
The Little Red Hen is a traditional folktale, called Russian or English in origin, in which a hen plants, harvests, mills, and bakes wheat alone after the dog, cat, and mouse refuse help, then eats the bread without sharing. Known in early US editions from 1905 and in fox variants.
The Little Sisters of Eluria
The Little Sisters of Eluria is a 1998 Dark Tower prequel novella by Stephen King, written for Robert Silverberg's Legends anthology, collected in Everything's Eventual (2002), and adapted by Marvel Comics in 2011.
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) is a 1978 novella by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal recalling his youth in Nymburk.
The Little Trilogy
The Little Trilogy (Russian: Malenkaya trilogiya) is a cycle of three interconnected short stories by Anton Chekhov, written in 1898 and joined by a shared frame narrative and theme.
The Liturgical Poems of Yannai
The Liturgical Poems of Yannai are Hebrew synagogue poems (piyyut) written by Yannai, a sixth-century paytan of Byzantine Palestine and the first Hebrew poet to sign works by acrostic.
The Living Buddha
The Living Buddha (Deungsinbul, also translated Life-Size Buddha) is a 1961 short story by the Korean novelist Kim Dong-ri, regarded as one of his representative works.
The Living Corpse
The Living Corpse (Живой труп), also known in English as Redemption, is an unfinished drama by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1900 and first staged at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 short story collection by Sherman Alexie, chronicling daily life on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is Kiran Desai's 2025 novel (Hamish Hamilton, Hogarth, Knopf Canada), her first since the 2006 Booker-winning The Inheritance of Loss; it follows Sonia Shah and Sunny Bhatia, was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, and took about 20 years to write.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, published as Judith Hearne, is a 1955 first novel by Brian Moore about a lonely Belfast piano teacher whose marriage hopes collapse.
The Lonely White Sail
The Lonely White Sail is a 1936 coming-of-age novella by Valentin Kataev about two Odessa boys caught up in revolutionary politics after the 1905 Potemkin mutiny.
The Long Earth
The Long Earth (2012) is the first of five parallel-Earth science fiction novels co-written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, featuring potato-powered stepper devices, natural stepper Joshua Valienté, the AI Lobsang, and human-free alternate Earths.
The Long Earth (series)
The Long Earth is a five-novel science fiction series (2012-2016) by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter about stepping between infinite parallel, human-empty Earths via a potato-powered Stepper device, featuring Joshua Valiente and the AI Lobsang.
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena is the 1980 English translation, by the author herself, of Elsa Joubert's 1978 Afrikaans novel, a biographical novel about a black woman's life under apartheid.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day is her 1952 account of bohemian radical journalism, her Catholic conversion, and founding the Catholic Worker Movement.
The Long Revolution
The Long Revolution is a 1961 book by Welsh critic Raymond Williams arguing that a cultural revolution has transformed Britain since the late eighteenth century.
The Long River
The Long River (长河) is an unfinished 1945 novel by Chinese writer Shen Congwen, set on the Chen River in West Hunan amid war and modernization.
The Long Walk
The Long Walk: Stephen King's dystopian novel published July 3, 1979 as Richard Bachman; 100 boys walk at 4 mph with three fatal warnings; adapted into the 2025 Francis Lawrence film.
The Lorax
The Lorax is Dr. Seuss's 1971 Random House picture book, his personal favorite, in which the Lorax speaks for the trees against the Once-ler's Thneed industry; inspired by Kenya's patas monkey and a La Jolla cypress, adapted in 1972 and 2012.
The Lord Chandos Letter
The Lord Chandos Letter (Ein Brief) is a fictional 1902 letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in which Lord Chandos tells Francis Bacon he can no longer write.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's high-fantasy novel published in three volumes in 1954–1955 by Allen & Unwin, follows Frodo's quest to destroy the One Ring and founded the modern adult fantasy genre.
The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)
The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series) is a 26-part BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Tolkien's novel by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell, starring Ian Holm as Frodo, with music by Stephen Oliver.
The Lore of the Whare-wananga
The Lore of the Whare-wananga is a two-volume 1913–1915 English edition of Māori esoteric teachings recorded in the 1850s by the scribe H. T. Whatahoro.
The Lost Bookshop
The Lost Bookshop is a 2023 magical realism novel by Evie Woods (Evie Gaughan), published by One More Chapter/HarperCollins. It follows Opaline, Martha, and Henry across two timelines linked by a vanishing Dublin bookshop and a lost Emily Brontë manuscript, and has sold over a million copies in thirty-plus languages.
The Lost City of Z (book)
The Lost City of Z (2009), David Grann's narrative nonfiction about Percy Fawcett, the British explorer who vanished in the Amazon in 1925 seeking the city of Z, and Grann's own retracing of the route.
The Lost Garden
The Lost Garden (迷園) is a 1991 novel by Taiwanese writer Li Ang, following Zhu Yinghong through a love affair and the fate of her family's Qing-era garden.
The Lost Hero
The Lost Hero (2010) by Rick Riordan is book one of The Heroes of Olympus, introducing demigods Jason, Piper, and Leo, Roman mythology, and a quest to rescue Hera.