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The Last Flight

Julie Clark · 2020

Two women swap boarding passes to flee husbands and pasts; one plane falls.

2,130-word summary · 9 min read

The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda · 2019

A year after her best friend dies in Littleport, Maine, a local woman finds a hidden phone that reopens the case.

2,596-word summary · 12 min read

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward · 2021

A lonely man, a cat and a mysterious neighbor pull you into a house full of buried trauma.

2,627-word summary · 12 min read

The Last Juror

John Grisham · 2004

A young editor buys a dying Mississippi paper and covers the murder trial that defines his town for a decade. Grisham's small-town novel about race, juries,…

2,528-word summary · 11 min read

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell · 2004

Kidnapped by Danish raiders as a boy and raised in their halls, Uhtred of Bebbanburg must choose what he is when the fight for England begins.

1,997-word summary · 9 min read

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch · 2008

Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

2,579-word summary · 11 min read

The Last Letter

Rebecca Yarros · 2019

Ella trades letters with soldier Chaos, then her brother Ryan death brings Beckett to Telluride with a hidden name, sick Maisie, and a love tested by truth.

2,559-word summary · 11 min read

The Last Letter from Your Lover

Jojo Moyes · 2010

A 1960s wife with lost memory and a modern journalist chase the same lost love letters across forty years.

2,506-word summary · 11 min read

The Last Mile

David Baldacci · 2016

Melvin Mars is hours from execution for his parents' murder when another man confesses, and FBI cold case detective Amos Decker goes looking for the trap.

2,746-word summary · 12 min read

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 1826

During the French and Indian War, Hawkeye and two Mohican warriors try to save two British sisters from a Huron chief whose revenge will end the Mohican line.

2,017-word summary · 9 min read

The Last Olympian

Rick Riordan · 2009

Percy Jackson turns sixteen as Kronos marches on Manhattan, forcing Camp Half-Blood into a final stand for Olympus beside Annabeth as the old prophecy demands…

2,564-word summary · 11 min read

The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks · 2009

Angry teen Ronnie spends a summer in Wilmington with her pianist father, finding first love, family repair, and loss.

2,761-word summary · 12 min read

The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney · 2009

Frank wants Greg toughened through sports while Greg dodges everything and military school looms.

2,020-word summary · 9 min read

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave · 2021

Hannah Hall gets a note saying Protect her, then her husband vanishes and she must team with his teen daughter to find why.

2,951-word summary · 13 min read

The Last Time I Lied

Riley Sager · 2018

Fifteen years after her cabin mates vanished at Camp Nightingale, painter Emma Davis returns as an art teacher and digs into lies about that night.

2,633-word summary · 12 min read

The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle · 1968

A unicorn learns she may be the last of her kind and sets out to find the others, with a failed magician and a tired woman at her side.

2,245-word summary · 10 min read

The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993

Geralt hunts strigas genies and golden dragons while Law of Surprise binds Ciri.

2,598-word summary · 12 min read

The Late Show

Michael Connelly · 2017

Exiled to the LAPD night shift after accusing her supervisor, Renée Ballard keeps two cases that were meant to be handed off at dawn: a brutal assault and a…

2,563-word summary · 11 min read

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries · 2011

Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.

2,581-word summary · 11 min read

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969

Envoy Genly Ai lands on icebound Gethen, where fluid gender upends his assumptions, and crosses a glacier with Estraven.

2,268-word summary · 10 min read

The Legacy

Elle Kennedy · 2021

Four Briar hockey couples face weddings, proposals, and parenthood three years after graduation.

2,172-word summary · 10 min read