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Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Love Unrehearsed
Tina Reber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Love Unwritten
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Love Walked In
Marisa de los Santos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Rob Bell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Love You Forever
Robert Munsch

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1986

Love You More
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Love You More (Tessa Leoni, #1; Detective D.D. Warren, #5)
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
Arthur C. Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Love Your Life
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Loving
Henry Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Loving Che
Ana Menéndez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Loving Day
Mat Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Loving Mr. Daniels
Brittainy C. Cherry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Lowboy
John Wray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Low Pressure
Stephen Lang, Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Loyalty
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Loyalty in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Lu
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Lucia, Lucia
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Lucinda's Secret
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)
Lynn Flewelling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Luck of the Titanic
Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Lucky
Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lucky Boy
Shanthi Sekaran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
Loung Ung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Lucky Man
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
Rich Paul, Jesse Washington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Lucky Red
Claudia Cravens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lucky's Plott
Libby Bagby

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Lucky Strike (PM's Outspoken Authors, #2)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1984

Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lucy Gayheart
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Marian Keyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Lud-in-the-Mist
Hope Mirrlees

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1926

Luella Miller
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1902

Luka and the Fire of Life (Khalifa Brothers, #2)
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole, #3)
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Maarta Laiho, Brooklyn Allen, Aubrey Aiese, Shannon Watters, N.D. Stevenson, Grace Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Luna
Julie Anne Peters

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Luna and the Lie
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Luncheon of the Boating Party
Susan Vreeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Lunch Lady, #1)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Lunch Money
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Lupercal
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Lupita Manana
Patricia Beatty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Lush Life
Richard Price

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lust, Caution

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Luster
Raven Leilani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lust for Life
Irving Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Luz Sees the Light (The Future According to Luz)
Claudia Davila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lyddie
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Harriet Scott Chessman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Lying
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Lying Awake
Mark Salzman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Lying in Wait
Liz Nugent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (New Directions in Southern Studies)
Amy Louise Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Lyrical and Critical Essays
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1970

Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Labrador Pact
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Ladies Auxiliary
Tova Mirvis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

The Ladies' Room
Carolyn Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Lady and the Unicorn
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Lady Elizabeth
Alison Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Mallory O'Meara

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Alison Weir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lady of the Rivers (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #1)
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
Nancy Goldstone

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
Mackenzi Lee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Lager Queen of Minnesota
J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Armand Marie Leroi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Lais of Marie de France
Marie De France

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1100

The Lake
Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Lake House
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Lake of Dead Languages
Carol Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Lake of Dreams
Kim Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Lake of Souls
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons in Living
Joseph M. Marshall III

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Laments
George Hagen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Land
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974