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Laughing At My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Laughing Without An Accent
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Laugh with the Moon
Shana Burg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2019

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Laurus
Eugene Vodolazkin, Evgenij Vodolazkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lavondyss (Mythago Wood, #2)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

La voz dormida
Dulce Chacón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lawless
Sylvie Del Cotto, T.M. Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Law Man
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Laxdaela Saga
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1245

Lay Bare the Heart
James Farmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Layer Cake
J.J. Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Layla
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Layla and Majnun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1192

Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands
Susan Carol McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Lazarillo De Tormes
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1554

Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Simon Sinek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Leadership
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Leadership Strategy And Tactics
Jocko Willink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Leadership without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Stacey Abrams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Leading Change
John P. Kotter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Leading in a Culture of Change
Michael Fullan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Leading With Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask
Michael J. Marquardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Leaf Storm
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1955

League of Denial
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

League of Dragons
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Leah on the Offbeat
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg, Nell Scovell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Lean Mean Thirteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lear
Edward Bond

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Learning Curve
Rachel Spangler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
Susan Neiman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Idries Shah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Learning to Drive: A Novel
Mary Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Learning to Swim (Troy Chance, #1)
Sara J. Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Learn My Lesson
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lease on Love
Falon Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Leave Me Breathless
Cherrie Lynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
Conor Knighton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1855

Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Leaving Everything Most Loved
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Leaving Home
Jan Michael

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Leaving Paradise
Simone Elkeles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Leaving the Land
Douglas Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1670

L'École des Femmes
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1662

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo #2 of 2)
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Lectures on Calvinism
Abraham Kuyper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

Lectures on Faith
Joseph Smith Jr., Sidney Rigdon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1835

Leech
Hiron Ennes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lee Miller: A Life
Carolyn Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Leepike Ridge
N.D. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command
Douglas Southall Freeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Left by the Indians
Emeline Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

Left Drowning
Jessica Park

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Left for Dead
Pete Nelson

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2002

Left Neglected
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Left Out
Tim Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Asian Arguments)
Leta Hong Fincher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculée Ilibagiza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1920

Legacy
Cayla Kluver

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Legacy Of Ashes
Tim Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Legally Blonde
Amanda Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Legend
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Legendary
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Legendborn
Tracy Deonn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Le grand cahier
Ágota Kristóf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor
Shawn M. Warner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Lucasta Miller

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #4)
Joanne Fluke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Lemons
Melissa Savage

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

Lend Me A Tenor
Ken Ludwig

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

L'Énigme du retour
Dany Laferrière

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Lenore
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1833

Leo
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986