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A Ladder to the Sky
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Lady by Midnight
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Lady of Persuasion (The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy, #3)
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor
Kathryn Moon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, #1)
Dianne Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
Sophie Irwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella Lucy Bird

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1879

A Land More Kind than Home
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes
Atia Abawi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Andrés Reséndez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Lantern in Her Hand
Bess Streeter Aldrich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1928

A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs, #8)
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Lesson in Vengeance
Victoria Lee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, James H. Tully

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1689

A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings (Thomas Hollis Library)
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Letter of Mary
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Lick of Frost
Laural Merlington, Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Lie Of The Mind
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

A Life in Parts
Bryan Cranston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

A Life Intercepted

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Life in the Twentieth Century
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
David Attenborough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Light in the Flame
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Light in the Window
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Light in the Window (Daughters of Boston, #0)
Julie Lessman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Lineage of Grace (Lineage of Grace #1- 5)
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Line Made By Walking
Sara Baume

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Lion Among Men
Douglas Smith, Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Lion to Guard Us
Clyde Robert Bulla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

A List of Cages
Robin Roe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

A Little Book on the Christian Life
John Calvin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1536

A Little Class on Murder (Death on Demand, #5)
Carolyn G. Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Little Cloud (Dubliners)
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
Nigel Warburton

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2011

A Little History of the World
E.H. Gombrich

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1936

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1905

A Little Something Different
Sandy Hall

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins, #5)
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Living Nightmare
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

A Long, Long Sleep (UniCorp, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Long Long Time Ago And Essentially True
Brigid Pasulka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Meghan Quinn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Long Way from Chicago
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider
Ishmael Beah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

A Long Way Home
Saroo Brierley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Lost Lady
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

A Lot like Love
Julie James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Love Letter to Whiskey
Kandi Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Lucky Child
Thomas Buergenthal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

A Lucky Man

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

La Bête humaine
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Lab Girl
Hope Jahren

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Labor Day
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

LaBrava
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Labyrinth
Kate Mosse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
Kate Mosse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

L.A. Candy
Lauren Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

La charca

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

La colmena
Camilo José Cela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lad: A Dog (Lad, #1)
Albert Payson Terhune

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1919

La dama del alba
Alejandro Casona

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

La Dame aux Camélias
David Coward, Alexandre Dumas fils

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Ladder of Years
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Laddie: A True Blue Story (Library of Indiana Classics)
Gene Stratton-Porter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1913

Ladies' Night
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer
Joël Dicker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Fiona Carnarvon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Lady Clementine
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lady Friday
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Lady in the Lake
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Dahlia Lithwick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Lady Knight
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Lady Luck
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lady Macbeth
Susan Fraser King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Lady of Avalon (Avalon, #3)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Lady of the Forest
Jennifer Roberson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Lady of the Lake and other poems
Walter Scott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Lady Smoke
Laura Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Lady Susan
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023