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Leonard and Hungry Paul
Ronan Hession

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Leonardo's Notebooks
Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1519

Leonardo's Shadow
Christopher Grey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Leon's Story
Leon Walter Tillage

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Leopard at the Door
Jennifer McVeigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Leopoldstadt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2020

Leota's Garden
Francine Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Le Passager
Patrick Senécal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1835

Le Petit Nicolas
René Goscinny

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Les Belles Soeurs
Michel Tremblay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Le Silence de la mer
Vercors

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

Leslie F*cking Jones
Leslie Jones

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Les Misérables
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Les Paradis artificiels
Charles Baudelaire

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Less
Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lesser Hippias
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 391

Less Is Lost
Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Les Soleils des indépendances
Ahmadou Kourouma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Lessons
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
Philip Paul Hallie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Lethal
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Let It Snow
John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | YA | Published in 2008

Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Let Me Die In His Footsteps
Lori Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Let Me Hear a Rhyme
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Let Me Hear Your Voice
Catherine Maurice

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Let Me Lie
Clare Mackintosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
Karen Blumenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2021

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Letter From Home
Carolyn G. Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Letters and Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

Letters From An American Farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1782

Letters from a Stoic
Seneca

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult

Letters from Cuba
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Letters from Hawaii
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1866

Letters from Rifka
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Letters from Skye
Jessica Brockmole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Letters from the Inside
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Letters from Vietnam: Voices of War
Bill Adler, ed.

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1968

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1914

Letters of Two Brides
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Letters on England
Voltaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1733

Letters to a Young Catholic
George Weigel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1929

Letters to a Young Scientist
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Letters to a Young Teacher
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Letters to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1774

Letters to Malaya
Martyn Skinner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Yossi Klein Halevi

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2018

Letters to the Lost
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost, #1)
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark
Mary Wollstonecraft

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1795

Letter to a Child Never Born
Oriana Fallaci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Letter to His Father
Franz Kafka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2015

Let The Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1)
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Lettres d'une Peruvienne (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 2)
Françoise de Graffigny, Joan DeJean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1747

Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
Pope Francis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Parker J. Palmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Lev
Belle Aurora

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Levels
Peter Benson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Levels of Life
Julian Barnes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Level Up
Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Obert Skye

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Leverage in Death (In Death, #47)
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Leviathan
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Leviathan Falls
James S.A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lexicon
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Liar
Justine Larbalestier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Liars Like Us
J.T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
Ludwig von Mises

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Mark R. Levin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Libra
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Lick
Kylie Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013