Stuart Kelly has written The Book of Lost Books, a tale of books that have disappeared through destruction, etc., or books that never got written in the first place.
Kelly laments the loss to civilization caused by destroyers of books–fascists, religious zealots, relatives of authors, and others.
He does not include among the destroyers the postmodern academics who have radicalized and trivialized literary studies, and willfully rejected–lost for future generations–the great classical books.
The latter have been held to account, however, in works such as Who Killed Homer?, Plagues of the Mind, and Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age.