List of lost literary works (English Wikipedia)

Kidd, I. G., ed. (2004), Posidonius (PDF), Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, vol. 3: The translation of the fragments (Transferred to digital printing ed.), Cambridge: Univ. Press, ISBN 978-0-521-60441-3

chs.harvard.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Quarrel of Odysseus & Achilles". www.Harvard.edu.
"Lost Works of the Epic Cycle". www.Harvard.edu. November 2, 2020.
"Socrates on Aesop". 2006.

churchofjesuschrist.org (Global: 1,733^rd place; English: 879^th place)

"Lost 116 Pages of the Book of Mormon". www.churchofjesuschrist.org. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

cnn.com (Global: 36^th place; English: 26^th place)

Strickland, Ashley (September 6, 2016). "Discovered Beatrix Potter Tale, Kitty in Boots, releases". CNN. Retrieved December 3, 2016.

dnaindia.com (Global: 575^th place; English: 297^th place)

Bharadwaj, Ajay (27 Feb 2009). "SGPC, Centre spar over Golden Temple's missing manuscripts - India - DNA". Daily News and Analysis. Chandigarh. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Zimmerman, Bernhard (2006). "Xenocles [2]". Brill's New Pauly. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e12212800.
Philip, J. A. (1963). "Aristotle's Monograph on the Pythagoreans". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 94: 185–198. doi:10.2307/283647. JSTOR 283647.
Gordon L. Thomas (1953). "Aaron burr's farewell address". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 39 (3): 273–282. doi:10.1080/00335635309381878. "Except for some of his court-room speeches [...] no verbatim reports of his speeches are extant."
Scott, David (May 1995). "Buddhism and Islam: Past to Present Encounters and Interfaith Lessons". Numen. 42 (2): 141–155. doi:10.1163/1568527952598657. JSTOR 3270172.

duke.edu (Global: 1,851^st place; English: 1,041^st place)

grbs.library.duke.edu

"Epigoni by Sophocles". www.Duke.edu.

earlybritishkingdoms.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Chrétien de Troyes". earlybritishkingdoms.com. Retrieved July 13, 2024.

elperiodico.cat (Global: 7,636^th place; English: low place)

"Mozart i Salieri van escriure junts una cantata". El Periódico de Catalunya. January 22, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.

expressindia.com (Global: 3,637^th place; English: 2,041^st place)

"George Fernandes admits Army removed items from Golden Temple during Operation B". Bombay: Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd. 25 May 2000. Retrieved 21 February 2011.

folger.edu (Global: low place; English: 7,930^th place)

lostplays.folger.edu

"Ur-Hamlet". Folger.edu. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
"Love Labour's Won". Folger.edu. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
"The Isle of Dogs". Folger.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
"Phaeton". Folger.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
"Hot Anger Soon Cold". Folger.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
"The Stepmother's Tragedy". Folger.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
"Black Bateman". Folger.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2023.

gsarchive.net (Global: low place; English: 6,636^th place)

"Gilbert & Sullivan's Lost Opera". gsarchive.net. Retrieved January 13, 2024.

hc.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Beowulf". hc.edu. 20 August 2018.

hplovecraft.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Lovecraft, H. P. (1927). "The History of the Necronomicon". The H. P. Lovecraft Archive. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

ifla.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Destruction Of Chinese Books In The Peking Siege Of 1900 – 62nd IFLA General Conference". Ifla.org. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2012-12-01.

iht.com (Global: 2,148^th place; English: 1,463^rd place)

Asimov, Eric. "The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2012-12-01.

indianexpress.com (Global: 108^th place; English: 58^th place)

Brar, Kamaldeep Singh (20 June 2019). "Explained: The mystery of missing articles of Sikh Reference Library". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020.

jklaw.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

ensaaf-org.jklaw.net

Kaur, Jaskaran; Crossette, Barbara (2006). Twenty years of impunity: the November 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India (PDF) (2nd ed.). Portland, OR: Ensaaf. p. 16. ISBN 0-9787073-0-3.
Kaur, Jaskaran; Crossette, Barbara (2006).|url=http://ensaaf-org.jklaw.net/publications/reports/20years/20years-2nd.pdf Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

Philip, J. A. (1963). "Aristotle's Monograph on the Pythagoreans". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 94: 185–198. doi:10.2307/283647. JSTOR 283647.
"René Descartes' Olympica". JSTOR. JSTOR 40969369. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
Scott, David (May 1995). "Buddhism and Islam: Past to Present Encounters and Interfaith Lessons". Numen. 42 (2): 141–155. doi:10.1163/1568527952598657. JSTOR 3270172.

ku.dk (Global: 4,251^st place; English: 4,029^th place)

manuscript.ku.dk

"Skjöldunga Saga". 3 June 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2024.

lostmanuscripts.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Dead Souls Pt. II & III". Lostmanuscripts.com. 25 July 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
"The Lost Manuscripts of Marquis De Sade". Lostmanuscripts.com. 13 July 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
"The real Lowry lost manuscript". 29 February 2012.

luminarium.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"The Ocean's Love To Cynthia". Luminarium.org. Retrieved December 24, 2023.

marxists.org (Global: 952^nd place; English: 914^th place)

"Leon Trotsky: My Life (6. The Break)". Marxists.org. 2007-02-06. Retrieved 2012-12-01.

mittag-leffler.se (Global: low place; English: low place)

Mikael Rågstedt. "From Order to Chaos: The Prize Competition in Honour of King Oscar II". Institut Mittag-Leffler.

monticello.org (Global: 7,799^th place; English: 4,299^th place)

Tay, Endrina. "The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth". Monticello.org. Retrieved July 20, 2017.

nationalgeographic.com (Global: 489^th place; English: 425^th place)

www9.nationalgeographic.com

"View the Gospel of Judas Interactive Document". National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on April 8, 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

newyorker.com (Global: 191^st place; English: 122^nd place)

"Rediscovering Eve Adams, the Radical Lesbian Activist". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-06-30.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

"Critic's Notebook; Isaac Babel May Yet Have The Last Word". The New York Times. July 11, 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
Wilford, John Noble; Laurie Goodstein (April 6, 2006). "'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

operawire.com (Global: low place; English: 8,858^th place)

"A Guest of Honor". operawire.com. 25 January 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

oremus.org (Global: 1,423^rd place; English: 649^th place)

bible.oremus.org

2 Maccabees 2:23

proquest.com (Global: 121^st place; English: 59^th place)

McLellan, Dennis (2001-11-13). "Obituaries; Mitzi Myers, 62; Literary Scholar". Los Angeles Times. p. B11. ProQuest 421672636.

reuters.com (Global: 38^th place; English: 30^th place)

Muller, R., and Kahn, M., "Czech musician performs long-lost Mozart score for first time", Reuters, Feb. 16, 2016.

rogerjnorton.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Lincoln's Lost Speech". rogerjnorton.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

rug.nl (Global: 2,629^th place; English: 1,971^st place)

let.rug.nl

"Biography of Adam Smith (1723–1790)". rug.nl.

sacred-texts.com (Global: 1,277^th place; English: 997^th place)

Rutherford Platt (1926). The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden. Entry: The Book of the Secrets of Enoch XXIII

si.edu (Global: 256^th place; English: 197^th place)

"Quipu". Smithsonian.com. 8 November 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2024.

smithsonianmag.com (Global: 663^rd place; English: 431^st place)

"Top 10 Lost Books". www.Smithsonianmg.com. September 19, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
Powers, Ron (May 2010). "Mark Twain in Love". Smithsonian Magazine.
Daley, Jason (August 31, 2017). "Terry Pratchett's Unfinished Novels Got Steamrolled". Smithsonian Magazine.

st-andrews.ac.uk (Global: 1,053^rd place; English: 1,274^th place)

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk

"Aristarchus of Samos Lost Work". Retrieved January 13, 2024.

tertullian.org (Global: 5,705^th place; English: 4,719^th place)

Roger Pearse (2002-07-03). "Photius, Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion (Cod. 1–165, Tr. Freese)". Tertullian.org. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
Roger Pearse (2002-07-03). "Photius, Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion (Cod. 1–165, Tr. Freese)". Tertullian.org. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
"Photius, Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion (Cod. 1-165, Tr. Freese)". www.tertullian.org. Retrieved 2020-08-28.

theatlantic.com (Global: 322^nd place; English: 198^th place)

Moore, Doris Langley (August 1959). "Byron's Lost Memoirs". theatlantic.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

thedailybeast.com (Global: 517^th place; English: 315^th place)

"Burnt First Draft of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde". www.thedailybeast.com. 10 March 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Flood, Alison (10 May 2013). "Meanderings of Memory". theguardian.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
Day, Elizabeth (2011-04-23). "Jilly Cooper: 'I'm a reasonable writer but I'm much too colloquial'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
Convery, Stephanie (30 August 2017). "Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
France-Presse, Agence (18 December 2017). "120 Days of Sodom". theguardian.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.

theoi.com (Global: 1,646^th place; English: 3,078^th place)

"Catalogue of Women". www.Theoi.com.
"Ion of Chios". www.Theoi.com. Retrieved August 4, 2024.

tribuneindia.com (Global: 668^th place; English: 350^th place)

Walia, Varinder (7 June 2003). "Fire of controversy in Sikh library still smoulders". The Tribune. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
Walia, Varinder (21 May 2009). "No Sikh reference books with us: Antony". The Tribune. The Tribune. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

trobar.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

de Vaqueiras, Raimbaut. "Canso 14 (Ja non cujei vezer)". Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: Complete Works. Retrieved 2009-09-13.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Ellul, Michael (1986). "Carlo Gimach (1651–1730) – Architect and Poet" (PDF). Proceedings of History Week. Historical Society of Malta: 37–38. Archived from the original on 4 August 2017.
"Destruction Of Chinese Books In The Peking Siege Of 1900 – 62nd IFLA General Conference". Ifla.org. Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
Kaur, Jaskaran; Crossette, Barbara (2006).|url=http://ensaaf-org.jklaw.net/publications/reports/20years/20years-2nd.pdf Archived 2012-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
Brar, Kamaldeep Singh (20 June 2019). "Explained: The mystery of missing articles of Sikh Reference Library". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020.
"View the Gospel of Judas Interactive Document". National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on April 8, 2006. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

search.worldcat.org

Jacoby, Felix (1926). Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Teil 2, Zeitgeschichte. – B. Spezialgeschichten, Autobiographien und Memoiren, Zeittafeln [Nr. 106-261]. Berlin: Weidmann. pp. 752–769, no. 138, "Ptolemaios Lagu". OCLC 769308142.
Day, Elizabeth (2011-04-23). "Jilly Cooper: 'I'm a reasonable writer but I'm much too colloquial'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
Convery, Stephanie (30 August 2017). "Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

List of lost literary works (English Wikipedia)

annefrank.org (Global: 9,530th place; English: low place)

archive.org (Global: 6th place; English: 6th place)

archives.gov (Global: 319th place; English: 166th place)

founders.archives.gov

authorscalendar.info (Global: low place; English: low place)

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11th place; English: 10th place)

news.bbc.co.uk

bbc.co.uk

bbc.com (Global: 26th place; English: 23rd place)

books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)

books.google.no (Global: 5,199th place; English: low place)

bookshop.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

bookstr.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

archive.bookstr.com

britannica.com (Global: 37th place; English: 64th place)

cambridge.org (Global: 209th place; English: 151st place)

cambridge.org

assets.cambridge.org

chs.harvard.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

churchofjesuschrist.org (Global: 1,733rd place; English: 879th place)

cnn.com (Global: 36th place; English: 26th place)

dnaindia.com (Global: 575th place; English: 297th place)

doi.org (Global: 2nd place; English: 2nd place)

duke.edu (Global: 1,851st place; English: 1,041st place)

grbs.library.duke.edu

earlybritishkingdoms.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

elperiodico.cat (Global: 7,636th place; English: low place)

expressindia.com (Global: 3,637th place; English: 2,041st place)

folger.edu (Global: low place; English: 7,930th place)

lostplays.folger.edu

gsarchive.net (Global: low place; English: 6,636th place)

hc.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

hplovecraft.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

ifla.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

iht.com (Global: 2,148th place; English: 1,463rd place)

indianexpress.com (Global: 108th place; English: 58th place)

jklaw.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

ensaaf-org.jklaw.net

jstor.org (Global: 23rd place; English: 15th place)

ku.dk (Global: 4,251st place; English: 4,029th place)

manuscript.ku.dk

lostmanuscripts.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

luminarium.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

marxists.org (Global: 952nd place; English: 914th place)

mittag-leffler.se (Global: low place; English: low place)

monticello.org (Global: 7,799th place; English: 4,299th place)

nationalgeographic.com (Global: 489th place; English: 425th place)

www9.nationalgeographic.com

newyorker.com (Global: 191st place; English: 122nd place)

nytimes.com (Global: 7th place; English: 7th place)

operawire.com (Global: low place; English: 8,858th place)

oremus.org (Global: 1,423rd place; English: 649th place)

bible.oremus.org

proquest.com (Global: 121st place; English: 59th place)

reuters.com (Global: 38th place; English: 30th place)

rogerjnorton.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

rug.nl (Global: 2,629th place; English: 1,971st place)

let.rug.nl

sacred-texts.com (Global: 1,277th place; English: 997th place)

si.edu (Global: 256th place; English: 197th place)

smithsonianmag.com (Global: 663rd place; English: 431st place)

st-andrews.ac.uk (Global: 1,053rd place; English: 1,274th place)

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk

tertullian.org (Global: 5,705th place; English: 4,719th place)

theatlantic.com (Global: 322nd place; English: 198th place)

thedailybeast.com (Global: 517th place; English: 315th place)

theguardian.com (Global: 16th place; English: 11th place)

theoi.com (Global: 1,646th place; English: 3,078th place)

tribuneindia.com (Global: 668th place; English: 350th place)

trobar.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4th place; English: 4th place)

search.worldcat.org

annefrank.org (Global: 9,530^th place; English: low place)

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

archives.gov (Global: 319^th place; English: 166^th place)

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; English: 10^th place)

bbc.com (Global: 26^th place; English: 23^rd place)

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

books.google.no (Global: 5,199^th place; English: low place)

britannica.com (Global: 37^th place; English: 64^th place)

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; English: 151^st place)

churchofjesuschrist.org (Global: 1,733^rd place; English: 879^th place)

cnn.com (Global: 36^th place; English: 26^th place)

dnaindia.com (Global: 575^th place; English: 297^th place)

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

duke.edu (Global: 1,851^st place; English: 1,041^st place)

elperiodico.cat (Global: 7,636^th place; English: low place)

expressindia.com (Global: 3,637^th place; English: 2,041^st place)

folger.edu (Global: low place; English: 7,930^th place)

gsarchive.net (Global: low place; English: 6,636^th place)

iht.com (Global: 2,148^th place; English: 1,463^rd place)

indianexpress.com (Global: 108^th place; English: 58^th place)

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

ku.dk (Global: 4,251^st place; English: 4,029^th place)

marxists.org (Global: 952^nd place; English: 914^th place)

monticello.org (Global: 7,799^th place; English: 4,299^th place)

nationalgeographic.com (Global: 489^th place; English: 425^th place)

newyorker.com (Global: 191^st place; English: 122^nd place)

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

operawire.com (Global: low place; English: 8,858^th place)

oremus.org (Global: 1,423^rd place; English: 649^th place)

proquest.com (Global: 121^st place; English: 59^th place)

reuters.com (Global: 38^th place; English: 30^th place)

rug.nl (Global: 2,629^th place; English: 1,971^st place)

sacred-texts.com (Global: 1,277^th place; English: 997^th place)

si.edu (Global: 256^th place; English: 197^th place)

smithsonianmag.com (Global: 663^rd place; English: 431^st place)

st-andrews.ac.uk (Global: 1,053^rd place; English: 1,274^th place)

tertullian.org (Global: 5,705^th place; English: 4,719^th place)

theatlantic.com (Global: 322^nd place; English: 198^th place)

thedailybeast.com (Global: 517^th place; English: 315^th place)

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

theoi.com (Global: 1,646^th place; English: 3,078^th place)

tribuneindia.com (Global: 668^th place; English: 350^th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)