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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1943

The Little Red Chairs
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Littles
John Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Little School
Alicia Partnoy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

The Little Shadows
Marina Endicott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Little Vampire
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1979

The Little White Bird
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1902

The Little White Horse
Elizabeth Goudge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1946

The Lives of a Cell
Lewis Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Lives of Animals
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1999

The Lives of Christopher Chant
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1988

The Lives of Edie Pritchard
Larry Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lives of Lee Miller
Antony Penrose

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1985

The Lives of Others
Neel Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Lives of Tao (Tao, #1)
Wesley Chu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lives of the Artists
Julia Conway Bondanella, Giorgio Vasari, Peter Bondanella

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1550

The Living
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Living Blood (African Immortals, #2)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Living Dead
George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Living End
Lisa Samson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Living Is Easy
Dorothy West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Lizard Cage
Karen Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Loaded Dog
Henry Lawson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1901

The Lobotomist's Wife
Samantha Greene Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
Colin Woodard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Location of Culture
Homi K. Bhabha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Lock Artist
Steve Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Locked Door
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Locked Room
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Log From The Sea of Cortez
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
Mancur Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

The Log of the Ark
Geoffrey: Walker Kenneth and Boumphrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The London Merchant
George Lillo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1731

The London Séance Society: A Novel
Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
Lauren James

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

The Lonely Hearts Book Club
Lucy Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Lonely Hearts Club
Elizabeth Eulberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lonely Londoners
Samuel Selvon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Lonesome Gods
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Lone Wolf
Louis Joseph Vance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

The Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long and Faraway Gone
Lou Berney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Long Call
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Long Cosmos (The Long Earth, #5)
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Long Drop
Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Longest Day
Cornelius Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Longest Journey
E.M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

The Longest Memory
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Longest Second
Bill S. Ballinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Long Flight Home
Alan Hlad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Long Game
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Shaun Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Long Haul
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Finn Murphy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Long Haul (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #9)
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Long Home
William Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Sun Shuyun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Long Patrol
Brian Jacques, Allan Curless

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

The Long Secret (Harriet the Spy #2)
Louise Fitzhugh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1965

The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Daisy Bates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Long Song
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Long Take
Robin Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Long Tomorrow
Leigh Brackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Long Valley
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1938

The Long View
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Long Walk
Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Long Way Home
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Weekend
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Look of Love
Bella Andre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Loose Ends List
Carrie Firestone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lorax
Dr. Seuss

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1971

The Lord God Made Them All
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

The Lord of Opium
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lords of Discipline
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980