The Book of Lost Things
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 339
- ISBN-13
- 9780743298858
- Type
- novel
About this book
John Connolly's 2006 novel The Book of Lost Things follows David, a grieving boy in wartime England who retreats into books after his mother's death, until the boundary between his world and a dark, half-remembered fairy-tale land gives way and pulls him through.
Key facts about The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly wrote The Book of Lost Things, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2006. The book has 339 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780743298858 to find the main one.
The Book of Lost Things is book 1 of 2 in The Book of Lost Things series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, John Connolly writes Charlie Parker, Samuel Johnson and Chronicles of the Invaders as separate series. Those series sit on our supernatural crime, fantasy and young adult shelves. Meanwhile, A River Red with Blood is the latest published John Connolly book on file, from 7 May 2026.
About John Connolly
John Connolly is an Irish novelist best known for the Charlie Parker series, which follows a former NYPD detective turned private investigator in Maine and blends hardboiled crime plotting with supernatural horror -- ghosts, ancient evils, and a recurring sense that Parker's cases are connected to something larger and darker than ordinary crime. See every John Connolly book in order.
Its place in The Book of Lost Things
The Book of Lost Things is book 1 in the The Book of Lost Things series. It is followed by The Land of Lost Things. See the full The Book of Lost Things reading order.
The Book of Lost Things follows David, a grieving boy in wartime England who retreats into books after his mother's death and his father's swift remarriage, until the boundary between his world and a dark, half-remembered version of fairy-tale land gives way and pulls him through. What he finds isn't the sanitized version of these stories: Connolly's fairy-tale world is genuinely frightening, populated by a Crooked Man who trades in children's names, a Woodsman, wolves evolving toward human intelligence, and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743298858