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Lie Down in Darkness
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Lie Down with Lions
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Lies
T.M. Logan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Lies of Silence
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Lies We Tell Ourselves
Robin Talley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Lie to Me
J.T. Ellison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lie To Me
J. T. Ellison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lieutenant Gustl (Sun & Moon Classics)
Arthur Schnitzler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1900

Lieutenant Nun
Catalina de Erauso

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Lie With Me
Sabine Durrant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Life
Keith Richards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Life After Death
Damien Echols

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Life After Death (The Coldest Winter Ever, #2)
Sister Souljah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Life After Life
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death
Raymond A. Moody Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1883

Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Life and Death
Stephenie Meyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

Life and Death in the Third Reich
Peter Fritzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Life and Other Inconveniences
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Life and Other Near-Death Experiences
Camille Pagán

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1881

Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Life, Animated
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Life As We Know It
Michael Bérubé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives
Jim B. Tucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Lifeboat 12
Susan Hood

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Life Expectancy
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Life for Sale
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Lifeguard
Andrew Gross, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Jack Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Life in a Medieval City
Frances Gies, Joseph Gies

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Misty Copeland

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Bruce Feiler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Life Is so Good
George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
Preeti Shenoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Life Itself
Francis Crick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike, #1)
Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Life of Black Hawk
Black Hawk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1833

Life of Castruccio Castracani (Hesperus Classics)
Niccolò Machiavelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1520

Life of Christ
Fulton J. Sheen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Life of Julius Caesar
Plutarch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 120

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Life on Mars: Poems
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Gregory Howard Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1883

Life on the Outside
Jennifer Gonnerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Life on the Refrigerator Door
Alice Kuipers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Carl Zimmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Life-Size
Jenefer Shute

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David Sinclair

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Life's Too Short
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Life's Too Short: A Memoir
Abby Jimenez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Life Under Water
Maura Dooley

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1992

Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Life with Father
Clarence Day Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1935

Life Without Limits
Nick Vujicic

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Life Without Principle
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1863

Light
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Light a Penny Candle
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Light Bringer
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Light from Other Stars
Erika Swyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Light (Gone, #6)
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Light in August
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Janet Dewart Bell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Light (Kefahuchi Tract, #1)
M. John Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Lightlark
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Lightning
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Lightning Strike
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)
Charles Soule

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Light on Snow
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Light on Yoga

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1)
Femi Kayode

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lights Out
Navessa Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Like a House on Fire
Cate Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2012

Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Like Me
Hayley Phelan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Like No Other
Una Lamarche

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (BLACK WOMEN WRITERS SERIES)
Alice Childress

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

Like Sisters on the Homefront
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Like the Flowing River
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989