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Look Back in Anger
John Osborne

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Look Closer
David Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Look For Me
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself
Luke Russert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

Looking for Alaska
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Looking for Jane
Heather Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Susan Gregg Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Looking for Transwonderland
Noo Saro-Wiwa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Looking Glass Sound
Catriona Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
John Elder Robison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Look the Part
Jewel E. Ann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Look Who's Back
Timur Vermes, Jamie Bulloch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Loon Lake
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Loose Woman
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Loot
Tania James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lord Brocktree
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
Stephen R. Donaldson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lord John and the Hellfire Club (Lord John Grey, #0.5)
Diana Gabaldon, Jeff Woodman

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

Lord John and the Private Matter
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Lord Loss
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Lord of All the Dead
Javier Cercas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Lord of Misrule
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Lord of Shadows
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Lord of the Fading Lands
C.L. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Iain Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Lord of the Shadows
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Lord Valentine's Castle (Lord Valentine, #1)
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Lore
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Lore Olympus: Volume Five
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lore Olympus: Volume Four
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lore Olympus: Volume One
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Lore Olympus: Volume Three
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lore Olympus: Volume Two
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Los de abajo
Mariano Azuela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Loser
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Losers Take All
David Klass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Los escarabajos vuelan al atardecer
Maria Gripe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along The Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya V. Hartman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Losing Battles
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Losing Hope
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time
Cora Carmack

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Losing My Cool
Thomas Chatterton Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Lost
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Lost and Found
Anne Schraff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Lost and Wanted
Nell Freudenberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
John Bul Dau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Lost Boys
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Caroline Paul

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost City Radio
Daniel Alarcon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Lost & Found
Nicole Williams

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Lost & Found: A Memoir
Kathryn Schulz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Lost Girls: An American Mystery: An Examination of the Lives of the Victims of the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer – Explore the Story Behind the Case as the Trial Unfolds
Robert Kolker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Lost Girls (DI Kim Stone, #3)
Angela Marsons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lost Hills
Lee Goldberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lost Horizon
James Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1843

Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Mitchell Zuckoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Lost In The Barrens
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Lost in the City
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Lost in the Cosmos
Walker Percy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Lost in the Forest
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Lost in the Never Woods
Aiden Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Lost in the Pacific 1942
Tod Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Lost in the War
Nancy Antle

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Lost in Time
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lost In Time
A. G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lost in Translation
Nicole Mones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Eva Hoffman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #13)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Lost Man's Lane
Scott Carson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Donn Fendler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Lost Roses: A Novel
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost Souls
Poppy Z. Brite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Lost Stars
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015