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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Adelle Waldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Love Dare
Stephen Kendrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1948

The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Love Of A Good Woman
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

The Love of My Afterlife
Kirsty Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Love of My Life
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Love of My Youth
Mary Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy
John Gottman, Julie Gottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Lover
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Love Season
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
Wallace Irwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
Beth Morrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Love That Split the World
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Love Wager
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Love Wife
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Löwensköld Ring
Selma Lagerlöf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Lower Depths
Maxim Gorky

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Howard Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Luckiest Girl in the World
Steven Levenkron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Lucky Chance (Royal Court Writers)
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1686

The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lucky Ones
Julianne Pachico

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lullaby Girl (Angie Pallorino, #2)
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lumber Room
Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Luminous Dead
Caitlin Starling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion
Barbara Brown Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
Jenny Uglow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Lunatic Cafe
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Luncheon
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Lure of the Labrador Wild
Dillon Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

The Lusiads
Luís de Camões

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1572

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove, #2)
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Luxe
Anna Godbersen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Luzhin Defense
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Lying Game
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lying Woods
Ashley Elston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018