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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 Translation
Nicole Mones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Lo Terciario / The Tertiary
Raquel Salas Rivera

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Lothaire
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Lottery
Patricia Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lotus
Jennifer Hartmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady (Modern First Ladies)
Nancy Beck Young

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Louis Lambert
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1832

Louis & Louise
Julie Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Love
Hanne Ørstavik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Love Actually

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Joshua Whitehead

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | YA | Published in 2019

Love, Amalia
Alma Flor Ada, Gabriel M. Zubizarreta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Love and First Sight
Josh Sundquist

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings
Jane Austen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1790

Love and Friendship (and Other Early Works)
Jane Austen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1787

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and The Start of a New Nation
David A. Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Love and Other Consolation Prizes
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
Emerson Eggerichs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Love and Summer
William Trevor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
Claire Dederer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Love and War
John Jakes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy
Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1968

Love: A Novel
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Love Anthony
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Love at First Spite
Anna E. Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Love Bites
Lynsay Sands

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Love Comes Softly
Janette Oke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
David Rakoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Love for Love
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1695

Love From A to Z
S. K. Ali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love & Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Love Hacked
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love Her or Lose Her
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels
Nancy Mitford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Love in a Cold Climate (Radlett & Montdore, #2)
Nancy Mitford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Love in the Afternoon
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
Neely Tucker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Alicia Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love in the Western World

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Love Is a Dog from Hell
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Rob Sheffield

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Love Is a Revolution
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Love is not all
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Loveless
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Love Letter from an Impossible Land
William Meredith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Love Lettering
Kate Clayborn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Love Letters of Great Men
Ursula Doyle

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1720

Love Letters to a Serial Killer
Tasha Coryell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Love Letters to the Dead
Ava Dellaira

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

Loveliest of Trees
A.E. Housman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
Daphne Sheldrick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Love, Life, and the List
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Lovelight Farms
B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Love Like Sky (Love Like Sky, #1)
Leslie C. Youngblood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love & Luck
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Lovely, Dark, and Deep
Amy McNamara

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Lovely Trigger
R.K. Lilley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lovely War
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Love Marriage
Monica Ali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Love Me Never
Sara Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Love of Country: A Journey through the Hebrides
Madeleine Bunting

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Love & Olives
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Love Only Once
Johanna Lindsey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love on the Dotted Line
David E. Talbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Love Overboard
Kandi Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth
Pamela Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Lover at Last
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lover Avenged
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Loverboy
Victoria Redel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Lover Enshrined
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008