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Letters from a Stoic
Seneca

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | BCE

Letters from Cuba
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Letters from Rifka
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

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 My Palestinian Neighbor
Yossi Klein Halevi

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2018

Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now
Matthew Olzmann

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1615

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 Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1651

Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Liberation Day: Stories
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Life
Naomi Long Madgett

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Life After Life
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1881

Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Lifeboat 12
Susan Hood

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

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Jack Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Life In The Iron Mills
Rebecca Harding Davis

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1861

Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Life of Black Hawk
Black Hawk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1833

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1883

Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

Ligeia
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1838

Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Light in August
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Lightlark
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Light Shining Out of Darkness
William Cowper

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Like a Winding Sheet
Ann Petry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1946

Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Lilac Girls
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Lily and Dunkin
Donna Gephart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Linked
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Listen, Slowly
Thanhha Lai

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Litany
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Little Beast
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Little Bee
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Little Brother
Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1932

Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1932

Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1886

Little Men
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

Little Monsters
Adrienne Brodeur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1868

Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1971

Lives On The Boundary
Mike Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Living in Sin
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1954

Living Up The Street
Gary Soto

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | YA | Published in 1985

Lizzie Bright And The Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

London
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

London, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

Lonesome Dove
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lone Women
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 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

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 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 Jane
Heather Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954