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Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Live by Night (Coughlin, #2)
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Live Oak, with Moss
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Lyndall Gordon

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Lives Of Game Animals (8 Volumes)
Ernest Thompson Seton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Lives of the Saints
Nino Ricci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year
Alban Butler

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1750

Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Lives On The Boundary
Mike Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Lives Other Than My Own
Emmanuel Carrère

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Live to Tell
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Live Wire
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, #10)
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Livid
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Living Alone
Stella Benson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Living and Dying in Brick City
Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Living Buddha, Living Christ
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Living Dead in Dallas
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Sandra Steingraber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Living Faith
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Living with Our Genes
Peter Copeland, Dean Hamer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Liza of Lambeth
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Lizzie Bright And The Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Lizzie Zipmouth
Jacqueline Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Loaves and Fishes
Dorothy Day

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1936

Lobby Hero
Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Local Girls
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lock and Key
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Lockdown
Alexander Gordon Smith

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Christian Parenti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Locked in Time
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lock Every Door: A Novel
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lock In
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Lock No. 1 (Maigret, #18)
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Locksley Hall
Alfred Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Lodestar
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

L’œil du loup
Daniel Pennac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

Logan's Run
William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Logicomix
Apostolos Doxiadis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Loki's Wolves (The Blackwell Pages, #1)
K.L. Armstrong, M.A. Marr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Lola and the Boy Next Door
Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Lola Bensky
Lily Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lola in the Mirror
Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

London
Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10)
James Patterson, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

London Fields
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

Londonstani
Gautam Malkani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lone Bull's Mistake: A Lodge Pole Chief Story
James Willard Schultz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Lonesome Dove
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lonesome Traveler
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Lone Stars
Justin Deabler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Lone Wolf
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lone Women
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Longbourn
Jo Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Long Bright River
Liz Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Long Distance Life
Marita Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Long Division
Kiese Laymon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Long Hard Ride
Lorelei James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Longitudes and Attitudes
Thomas Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Long Live the Post Horn!
Vigdis Hjorth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Long Lost
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Long Lost (Kate Burkholder, #4.5)
Linda Castillo

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Long Lost (Myron Bolitar, #9)
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Long May She Reign (The President's Daughter, #4)
Ellen Emerson White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Long Range
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Road Home
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine, #1)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Long Shadows
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Long Shot (Comeback Kids)
Kennedy Ryan, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Long Story Short
Serena Kaylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2017

Long Way Gone
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Long Way Home
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

Look Again
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Look Alive Twenty-Five
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Look Back
Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021